As the department of buildings has very strict codes of use.

This raised the valuation of the asset tremendously.On the second occasion, about 2 months ago, a tenant complained a few weeks after the fire department soaked the unit to put out a fire.

Then if you have someone wanting to buy it - how many months/years are they going to need from their end to make sure it meets their needs because they’ll probably have many departments this purchase needs to be approved through.

Note: you can get commercial financing for 1-4 unit properties.When you talk to your local planning and zoning department, 2 or more units are considered multi-family.Since this discussion was about zoning, not financing it is more correct to refer to a duplex as multi-family.In my area (the area of the original poster) a conforming duplex would be zoned as multi-family with duplex as permitted use, and could be financed as residential real estate.Hopefully that clears it up.It's sort of like a tomato.

Thanks to quick action by the fire department, everyone got out safely, but the house was left uninhabitable.The FalloutThe damage?

The project got off to a slow start with the building department.

One said to email the Assumption Department.

Call the planning or assessor department and get clarification. 

I always recommend that investors get this info from the county departments to get the most up-to-date info.I hope this helps.

If so file a complaint with the building department / state licensing commission3.