Turning single-family to Duplex

[Jorge Esteban Vargas]

Hello everybody, we have a 5bed/3bath single-family investment property in Forest Park, GA and my wife and I know that our zoning area allows duplexes. Since we have some land behind our property, we're thinking about converting the house into a duplex by building a second unit in the back. Does anybody know of any lenders that will work for this specific type of project? I spoke with a hard money lender but they'd lend to only experienced flippers. Here's some additional info: we rent each room individually and have been doing great and people always ask if we have any additional houses/rooms in the area so we would love the second unit to be either 4beds/2baths or 6 beds/3baths.