40 years recertification

[Orita Issartel]

I was just wondering if the 40 Years recertification is something that is needed done in most states or basically only in Florida. I own a Triplex built in 1925 that we bought a couple of years ago. It had no recertification done. I received a noticed for the city telling me that we were late with the recertification and were gonna have fines if not done within the month. Mind you, this is Miami and the building dept. here is not an easy one. After having paid an engineer for the needed inspections I did a lot of research about it and found out that my triplex was exempt because it's 3 separate houses in a large lot and not any of them are larger that 2000 SqFt.  I actually had to fight with the city about it and one of the inspectors there told me to change it to a duplex??? I did win the fight! From now on I'm careful when looking for multifamily bigger than duplexes as they all need the 40 years recertification.