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Be sure to address your approach to mitigating important risks to investors such as legal and regulatory risk from the cannabis space, but also the collateral coverage in the event one or more deals go belly up.

As a broker you'll have regulatory requirements.  

Additionally, you may run into some issues with "legal nonconforming" situations whereby whence you remove an existing structure completely and replace it with a new one you will have to comply with any/all setback and permitting requirements that were once grandfathered in. 

Plan is to teardown and build new but I'd really like to avoid conforming to the current front setback rules. 

Without going into details under the relatively new expanded definition of securities offerings, adopted by the SEC and almost all state securities regulatory agencies, if a financial investment is involved, and people putting up the money or having money at risk don’t have control of the decision making, then its a securities offering.All Securities offering must be registered with the SEC if they’re interstate offerings, or a state securities agency if they’re intra state offerings, unless they qualify for an exemption from registration.

In addition, the edge of the home is several inches from the lot line, which violates the 10’ side setback requirements.

That changed over the last few years where a back up strategy was an afterthought or non excitant.Headwinds: regulatory, interest rates, house prices, "professional" competition, and market saturation.

I already went to the planning department to determine the setbacks i had to abide by for the lot. 

CA Granny unit law: Summary no extra parking space required for ADU if it’s within ½ mile of a public transit stop, or part of an existing primary residence, or part of an existing accessory structure, or in an area requiring on-street parking permits parking can be tandem on existing driveway when a garage is demolished or an ADU and off-street parking spaces must be replaced, they can be anywhere on lot, including tandem no set back required for a garage conversion; side/rear setback of 5 feet max for ADU above a garage no extra utility, water or sewage hookup fees detached ADU’s shall not exceed 1200 sq ft CA Granny Unit law: Background docs bill textlegal brief