My guess is your only cure now is to rip it out and remove stove, closet, extra hallway, make the ingress/egress legal to TODAY's code.

So, this will start their countdown and if they don't pay and cure the demand, consult with your eviction attorney and proceed with eviction.Remember, leave emotions out!

You will only make it worse by trying to cure it all at once.

As an appraiser, I can appraise it as a duplex, and put a cost-to-cure adjustment to account for the conversion back to a duplex, or I can appraise it as an sfr (assuming it can legally be an sfr).

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.2.

So when you develop a vaccine for a deadly virus... you test it with 3000 people and every single time you inject a person they implode with bloody guts all over the place and at the 2804th person they get cured, you say.. finally... that vaccine...

Can offer coffee, beer, and cured meats in return.

It remains unclear how to cure my issues, or if the city will recognize my cures when I get to that point. 

So if the 2nd lienholder files what is called a Notice of Default (NOD) in my state which is official notice that the loan is in default and provides a 30-day to cure period, then we would file a Notice of Trustee Sale (NTS) afterwards which, by state law, requires a date of sale at auction no sooner than 120 days after the filing is approved by the courts.

Need to find out what the nature of that pending action is, it could be nothing much at all, something you can cure easily.