call your titles officer too that could be very helpful

That means that if you owned a few stores along Yonge Street with some offices or apartments above, you were in luck, because the government had just declared that you could build 20, 30, or 40 stories instead of two, three, or four.

I would be happy to share the contact information for one of the local TD loan officers.

Does the landlord have an office by chance?

Get involved in community work if you can especially with the police dept. 

The construction cost has been soaring in the last 3 years in the Bay area (I work in the corporate construction industry and our project management office is forecasting 10% fee escalation in all of the MEP trades in this year).

Then you could sell the lot, or try to get that 1 lot rezoned into office (or commercial, but I doubt it will fly).House:  man, that thing is so full of ugly tile.  

The construction cost has been soaring in the last 3 years in the Bay area (I work in the corporate construction industry and our project management office is forecasting 10% escalation in all of the MEP trades in this year).

As Donnell said I would recommend you go to the free seminar the sherrif office holds every month.

Offer to take it to the recorder's office yourself!