Check your municipality's zoning map and ordinance to see if that is permitted for your property.

I think this makes everything cleaner for taxes, documenting historic rental payments, and legal issues that may arise due to the barter, etc.  

With some of the CapEx issues/concerns that came up during the inspection/prep work for construction, we delayed some of the work when we should have just addressed them all ahead of time.

That cost is highly dependent on whether you're pulling permits and doing plans with full engineering, or just common sense building without permits, of course.

The HoA can issue a citation for the yard being full of weeds and that they would be responsible for paying the fines. 

Obviously, this is a speculative question and nobody has a crystal ball on this issue, however, I think close consideration of the fundamentals are important in making a decision about this.

I meant you need to take care of that issue.

Hi everyone, I want to issue 1099 to my contractor to be on the safe side. 1. what 1099 should I issue to them?

I also know that most cities are open to permitting ADUs due to short housing supply.

In my efforts to obtain a Certificate of Occupancy, I encountered a requirement for a zoning permit.