Way back in the 90's in Salt Lake City.The issue and problem with Fire damage properties is . 1- I am sure the city is involved with complete up to code with everything. 2- Most contractors will charge you almost double to deal with the city up to code and    the mess of the fire, water. etc.3-Most the time a engineer needs to access the property and even their report can cost thousands.Do you have it tied down?

Yes, but you need to narrow it down a lot to have a coherent answer.You will have to look at (I'd recommend in this order) the city codes (if it's inside a city, many cities above 50-100k population aren't friendly to development of these), the county codes (most counties are friendly to these, but you will probably have significant issues in major counties like Bexar, Travis, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Harris, etc), then you will have to comply with the state-level (TCEQ and others) on the water supply and waste water treatment systems.To put it in perspective again, in say Dallas or Austin, you will likely have prohibitions or very significant hurdles on developing RV or tiny home properties even on unincorporated, "unrestricted," AG-zoned properties at both the city/municipal level and county level.

It also rules out some pretty nice areas that happen to be located on the edge of zip codes that would otherwise be C areas.I guess my general point is that zip code level analysis can be interesting, but isn't terribly effective for picking the best neighborhoods to invest in, or at least not here in San Antonio.

I'm looking for alterative solutions to separate my physical self from having to collect the cash payments. 

End of the day this is up to the buyer to discover in due diligence the seller may not have known and the agents are not required to take a deep dive into the zoning codes. 

For house hacking or renting this could potentially be a disaster; the code enforcement folks could ask you to remove un permitted additions.

Nevada Administrative Code requires the Nevada Assessors to use Marshall & Swift Building Cost Service to determine improvement replacement costs, minus depreciation.

I've looked through the municipal codes and I can accommodate the parking requirements for what I'm looking to build.

I also listed the house while I was gone on deployment and did not want guests in my bedroom (so we didn't list the house as a 4bed/2bath - it was a 3/1), so we bought the doorknobs that have a keypad and require a code for nearly all doors in the house.

Krissie Managing BrokerThe Code Agency, Virginia Beach, VA