You may need a real estate attorney to possibly approach the City/Town.

Careful walling off "units" in a SFH in the City of College Park unless you're owner occupant and renting part of your house.

Thanks 1) the city of Chicago has terrible rules against landlords, as an example Doing this from memory, but I think landlords are required to pay interest on an annual basis to their tenants. 

I live in New York city where the prices for homes seem much too high for someone who is just starting out in the business.

I would shoot for only 2% or better but that would likely be impossible in many cities with a hot market these days .

Growth: 0%Renter Population: 30+%City Description: The city is the service hub of the county, it contains all the big box stores as well as a struggling downtown.  

What they don't know is that the house has been deemed unsafe by the city and we've talked to the building commissioner to hault tearing down the property.Our understanding is that the bank will have to send out a broker to appraise the house in order to move forward.Is there any way that we can assist the process and for lack of a better word, "convince" Chase Bank that they should accept our offer or at least negotiate with us?

I'm on month 3 of a sale, because the title company waited a month and a half to pull a municiple search, that takes the city another month to actually do!

Even if you have to pay for it, it should be looked at by an official, maybe with the subject city inspector or a referral from someone you trust about the environmental question.  

I work in Jersey City, NJ and live in Essex County, NJ.