2 Flat For Sale with no alley leading to the main street

[Maggie G.]

hello .  Could you please  advise me whether I should consider buying this property  or  not??

I found this  2 flat  for sale for  reasonable  price , yet I have a dilemma  because  this  2 flat  with garden apt  has no alley leading to the main street, it has  only  one  exit to the  main road .  Garbage company doesn't want to walk all the way to the  back to pick up the trash or they want to  charge  double.  Also, the tenants  will be having a problems coming out of the driveway because  there is NO Alley. there are 3 floor, 2nd, 1st floor  and  garden apt.   Normally all  2 flats have 2  exits, one from the  main road  and  2nd one  from the  alley, yet this  one  has  only  one  exit  /entrance  in one.  in thank you .  Maggie  

[Josh Sartori]

Hi Maggie,

With the information you have it makes me wonder what kind of zoning the property is, a legal apartment in Chicago has to have two points of egress. If I'm reading this correctly you're saying there is only one point of egress to the main street on the front of the house. If you'd like to legally rent this place out the zoning is the first place to look and you can find it on the county assessor's website.