Right now the legal description of the 2 units are "789 CONDO UNIT A PER CDO INSTR# 123456789" and "789 CONDO UNIT B PER CDO INSTR# 123456789" where the instrument #123456789 is a recorded 87 page HOA doc including all regulations, definitions, HOA hazard insurance, HOA fee, voting, bylaw, site plan, survey, etc.

@Claudia BrownPerhaps "buy it back" was too colloqial a description. 

It depends on your market and your space and most importantly how clear you are in your description. 

Double and triple check names, dates, addresses, legal descriptions,  etc.

Visit the properties if at all possible, or pay boots on the ground to send pictures and descriptions. 

I have deadlines to meet and loan carrying costs, etc until the parcels are sold and can't sell either until this is completed and the new legal descriptions are finalized by the city. 

If you have to close on all 3 within 90 days, as it’s mentioned in your description, you’d have to close on 2 of the duplexes, then find a Buyer for both of them, and hope that nothing goes wrong in escrow, which means satisfying inspections for said Buyer, getting appraised on time, which is difficult right now and having zero issues with the title work, so they close on time… Then turn around and buy the third duplex prior to the original agreed upon 90-day deadline.

I won’t entertain questions that are outlined in my description and I will not show the apartment until an application is filled out.

Repairing something that's broken, depending on what it is, can be something they might be more likely to tell you you don't need a permit for.For example, instead of saying "I'm going to take down several walls and put new ones up" you could say, "I'm going to repair several sections of crumbling plaster by replacing the plaster with drywall, and putting in some insulation in the process" - if that's a fair description of course.It's a minor difference in framing, and might not matter, but where there's ambiguity I usually like to try to tilt things in my favor where possible 😀For tracking down the building department you could Google it or look on ripropinfo.com which is my usual launching-off point for researching properties - it has a column for the city/town website which can be helpful because sometimes towns change their sites from .us to .gov to .com or whatever (more often than you'd expect actually).

I am not an expert in this area, but I presume by your description on your properties that they are currently mortgaged.