To make a long story short I'm currently working on developing 13 units in the city of Lake Elsinore, CA and while going through the process of developing raw land into multifamily housing there's going to be a ton of people you come in contact with the are essential to the development process.

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They laughed their a**es off at the inspectors office when I mentioned the address.Love the specifics of the area you mention, the stories you tell and I can imagine the stories you haven't :) .I think you'll agree though, with a "recent" conversion unless there is documentation of being a legal (somehow) two family, workarounds are just that, and will leave him vulnerable to all kinds of selective enforcement.

I know there's SO much more to the story that I haven't shared, but I hope this information will at least paint a relative picture for all of you to see where I have gone wrong in my analysis.

This means that all of the above scenarios are invalid.

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Pensacola.

Purchase price: $62,000

Cash invested: $8,000

Sale price: $160,000

Small townhome in a higher end suburban neighbo...

Three months later, I regretted the decision because someone dinged my door and I realized I could have had the same tax benefits with a used vehicle for half the price.Long story short, I think you should continue sacrificing until you've reached your goal.

What's the story behind getting financing?

If you don't feel like reading my life story, feel free to scroll down and just check out my first deal, my first offer ever was just accepted and the wife and I are over the moon! 

Also, is a one-story home a type of property style, and can detached and attached single-family homes be styles as well?