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Carlos Paz
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How to Find a Duplex

Carlos Paz
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Concord, NC
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Hello BP Community. I'm looking for a Duplex in the Charlotte, NC area. I'm trying to pull a list of addresses for direct mail, so I select the option of Property Type: "Residential Multifamily" (cause by selecting Residential Duplex I get 0). 

I was wondering why my list does not include all the duplex addresses?. When I look a particular Duplex address in a website like Realtor or Zillow, some are described as a "Single Family Residential". I guess this is because each house has it's own number (unit #1, unit #2). Same when I look at the public records, it will come as a Single Family Residential in the Land Use description (it does show Duplex-Triplex in the Built Use/Style description).

So how can I refresh my search that can include both units (#1 and #2) in the address so it doesn't exclude the ones describe as SFR? or in the other case, how to know if a SFR is part of a Duplex-Triplex?

Thank You for your help.

Carlos

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Chris Magma
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Chris Magma
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I would recommend not using third party sources but instead use the source that is updated weekly and or daily which is the county records. What I would do is ask for the entire database from the county and you will have every property in city of Charlotte and the ones surrounding it. You will have everything in one swoop. You can then filter it to show what you are looking for. I've done this for Mecklenburg County already. It might take some technical know how but you will soon have every property that is a duplex, every property that has duplex zoning and every builder that's building a duplex currently with mailing and property addresses.

Hope this help!

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