The second floor was legal and they were forced to give my client a CO for the bathroom, allowing the sale to proceed.

I own a single family home and have tenants that have stayed for two years. I recently made them get renters insurance. They are asking if they can put up an inflatable pool in the summer only. Also, they asked if the...

Coming together has allowed me to build relationships with the players/pieces that need to be in place to make it a successful environment and there have been bumps along the way no doubt and we learned so much, but you can't get anywhere you want to go in life without learning the lessons you need to get there.  

We get what we allow.

Staying an extra few days is only allowed when its a weekend.

This will allow you to acquire more rental units and also being able to use the vacated unit rents at 75% to help your debt to income ratio DTI.There is a FHA 100 mile rule if you do plan on using FHA on your 2nd house hack.

FHA will allow you to use 75% of the other unit as well when qualifying as long as you have a lease or rental agreement to show you pay rent currently.Just to clarify you can rent the other unit to anyone...

Will your policy on the building allow for that use (ie Pharmacy). 

While most municipalities do not possess an interative map as easy to use, once you famiarlize yourself with the base zoning districts that allow the 2-4 unit buildings, relying on the local zoning maps will help direct you to the specific areas within the municipality that possesses the proper zoning.

NEVER allow a tenant to make repairs...it'll be a disaster for you.