The SAFE Act covers mortgages and installment contracts where a collateral interest is secured by a single family dwelling (1-4 family residence).

There twisted rules regarding "equity purchasers" and whether you intend to occupy the dwelling as your primary residence (if I recall it's about $100 or so).Bottom line: Ask a RE attorney in the state in which you are making offers on such properties.

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents of legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability).Better take a landlord class and get your act together.

There are a few options that are currently on our list:- Buy another townhouse- Purchase a property in old town and renovate- Build a new home with an accessory dwelling- Purchase a newer home and have an accessory dwelling addedI work as a DBA (Database Administrator) so I like going through the details.  

Once the building gets a CO and is being rented, you can rewrite it to a Dwelling Fire policy.  

A lot of insurance carriers won't cover dwellings with PB pipes.  

But that's why I like multifamily dwellings is its multiple units with ONE furnace, ONE roof, Etc. 

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The city passed an ordinance that said if one of these dwellings sat empty for a time (~60 mos.) that it had to be converted back to single family; but it allows those in continuous use, or those specifically built as a multi-unit, to remain.