Cragilist... driving for dollars and public records.

Things sometimes get mixed up if the public record is off. 

The people who record and release the liens into public record should be able to tell you. 

These include, but are not limited to: residentially zoned land and house lots; three family homes; apartments and tenement houses; multi-family dwellings and housing developments; publicly assisted housing; and, single and two family residences intended for sale.All commercial space, for sale or for rent, and all land intended to be put to commercial use are covered by M.G.L. c. 151B, s. 4.(4) Property Not Covered By M.G.L. c. 151B, s. 4.

I would definitely recommend doing your due diligence on any property you are looking at and get all of the information on it that is available to the public before even making an offer.The tough part about doing fix and flips in this market is that you can never really predict where the market will go.

In another thread, @Rob Suhai recommended using public tenant eviction records as a way to help find off market sellers.

Hopefully this helps clear up the confusion regarding how things are named, where they are recorded for the public to see and how title/ownership is transferred.

I feel like I average one deal every 6,000 mail pieces. 5) I won't share this in a public forum (no so much because I don't think there are enough deals to go around but because I don't want to muddy the waters and have the sources of my lists pull the plug because there are so many people requesting the information).

If you want to sell it fast take it to public auction.

So, while my research did not find any rental restrictions for STRs I did not discover that they couldn't give me a business license (before we bought the house.)After talking with the City Planner about the situation he told me I could go through the same process that a hotel or B&B does (approval process for Certificate of Conditional Use) but it basically comes down to a City Council meeting which is a public hearing.We discussed the fact that there already were people operating STRs in the city (and obviously not paying taxes to the city since they would not have a business license).