Duplex or quadplex?

[Jay Helms]

Pensacola BPers! Ran across an opportunity on a quadplex, however, doing my research, public record classifies this property as a duplex. How do I find out if it is permitted to be a quadplex? If it is a duplex, what is the typical process & cost to have the property legally recognized as a quad?

[James DeRoest]

Originally posted by @Michael Noto:

I am not sure how things work in Florida, but up here in Connecticut we recently kicked the tires on a legal 2-family that was being used as a 3 family.

We asked the city what would go into making the property a legal 3 unit. His response was "the only way it would maybe be worth it is if you got the property for free"

Trouble is that in Escambia, it could either be inside Pensacola city limits or in the county. (You can tell on public records, city or county mtsu), and between the two they are totally different. The building inspections departments have totally different attitudes, the environmental people are very different, the permits required are very different and so forth.

It's why a lot of landlords stay outside city limits. We will only buy within city limits if the deal is too good to miss. And it's also why a lot of tradesmen hate city limits as well. tradesmen surcharge work in city limits.