City zoning question

[Robert Farris]

There is a foreclosed tri-plex I was interested in buying and was talking with the bank to make the deal happen but I went to the City Building/Zoning dept. and was told me that they have rezoned that area to a single family area and that the tri-plex can no longer be used as a tri-plex.

They said the house was grand-fathered in and as long as the inspections were kept up that it would have been ok, but since the house was sitting in foreclosure for longer than 6 months with no inspections done, the house converted back to the newer SFH zoning rules.

So basically, the tri-plex is useless as a rental.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of issue before?

Is there anything I can do to change this?