County sees lot as 2 APNs but City has it as 1 APN

[Charles Cooper]

Hello fellow BP members. Had a question regarding county vs city views on a APN(s). These properties are located in Los Angeles Country and within Los Angeles City Have a owner that wants to sell his 2 houses since needs the money. They both need some rehab on them and ran the numbers and they were great fix and flip properties, just had to buy them both not one or the other, but still great profit potential. The issue came with the city report. The city issued a permit for the SFR to build a secondary unit ( granny unit, ADU,etc) on the lot since the city sees it as one lot not two like the county. This complicates things now since it's like me purchasing a SFR with a ADU and not as two separate houses since I'm sure the next buyers will want to have this resolved if selling each house fixed up to two separate owners. The best case scenarios is to have them as two separate houses. Anyone have any suggestions or experience with dealing with the City of LA to make them change it to two seperate houses/lots. They both have difference addresses too. Does the county supersede city law? Thanks!