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Hi Treza,Not sure where you are in the process there, but when your ready to exercise financing options please reach out, it's very difficult to find a ground up program for inexperienced borrowers without having an experienced GC sign on the loan with you which in turn is not easy to find. 

If you see at least a few zoned in the designations you mentioned above, that's potentially a good sign that you can get support from the local Alderman's office, and approval by the ZBA (zoning board of appeals), to rezone.

That's a sign! 

Quote from @Noah Bacon: Quote from @Courtney Nguyen: @Noah Bacon before I sign up for PRO membership I just want to confirm that it will give me free access to Stessa PRO also, right? 

Not perfect but wrapped it up quickly and had him sign a waiver for any other findings. 

.- You will have to come out of pocket for the arears, fees etc, just to get into "contract" some times $20k or more and all you have as protection is the word of someone who's proven to be unreliable and a signed piece of paper... 

I don't know your area, so I can only write to my experiences in PA.You don't really convert your property to Section 8 (S8), but rather sign a lease with a tenant who happens to be funded by S8.

But once I got the bills, I increased the rent with the tenant's approval and signed an addendum to the lease stating the rent increase would be X and the owner would take over utilities.

Finally… do not assume that “Your” real estate agent is working for your best interest… unless… BOTH of the following are satisfied… 1) the agent Signs a “Buyers Agent” contract where it is stated that YOUR interests comes firstAND… 2) the agent / your buyers agent has no affiliation with any other party nor has any financial interest in this transaction other than as stated in the docs… and has no association with any party in the transaction… other than as stated in the disc… you explain up front that any all buying agreements are not binding until after you have AT LEAST a Preliminary Good Faith Estimate/ HUD1/  enhanced financial disclosure… and that ALL parties/ entities and all fees are clearly disclosed.