And this is across at least 3 or 4 different council districts, so I don't think its a single council person or neighborhood getting serious about construction jobs.I could be wrong, but my sense is code enforcement is viewing things differently than they have in the past.

So the amenities she is given is a parking spot, washer/dryer access in our basement and of course her own apartment with dish washer (not common from what I've seen).

I'm listening to this guru's webinar right now and it makes a LOT of sense to me. 

@Paul Sandhu That makes sense, thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the details and it is making more and more sense :).  

I would like to find a multi family that makes sense in terms of the numbers.

There we go, that makes more sense.

I have seen a case where an investor purchased several substantially identical SFR properties at one time and had a cost segregation study performed on one and then simply leveraged that single study across all of them - maybe that makes sense.

There was a common courtyard area in between them so we put a fence up and now it's just as Dan said, 2 separate houses, with the exception of one water meter.

I agree with @David Krulac - hopefully your property is in one of the 2% RTT areas rather than one of the 4% or 5% RTT areas.The imputed property value used to determine the RTT amount can be found by taking the tax assessed value from the tax assessor, and multiplying (or dividing) by the common leveling ratio that the PA Department of Revenue has posted at their website, for the year and month of the transfer (the values in their table change over time).Once you have that value, and the tax rate for that location, you can figure out how much this screw up cost you ;)