Got that from a video by Jerry Norton, just found out about him on a topic of estimating for a flip.

One of the projects was moving a 6,000 sf beach house which would have been an engineering marvel, or a serious disaster.If you move a house on 35 or mopac can you upload the video to youtube?

I will call the zoning office again, but to my recollection they said non-family dwelling in your house and paying rent constitutes as a multi-family property.  

It only says, "Residents agree that said premises shall be used only as a dwelling and for no other purposes and shall be occupied only by TENANT and those persons listed on TENANT's rental application."

If there's one thing I've learned is that if you dwell on the narrow interpretations of state and federal law, which often contradict each other, you'll never make any money.

The only way I’m coping is trying not to dwell on it too much, but right now it’s hard not to.

Rehabbing a multi-dwelling has some major differences than a single family.

Rich - I just saw this video and thought it was yet another amazing tale of survival . . .

Try Quatro Electronics, they have wireless PIR's and use a cellular modem that sends 20 second video clips directley to a central station, it's battery powered too so it's self sustaining with over a 2 year battery life (with alerts when battery gets low)

And you had perfectly good assets being lost as the loans matured there was no way to refi and the underlying lenders foreclosed on perfectly good working assets because the owners could not retire debt in cash they had always banked on the ( OH MY BANK WILL roll the 20 due in 5 over they always have).. when they did not boom.. but I don't want to dwell on it I darn near ended up a statistic and its way in the rear view mirror.. but a combination of mortgage market  liar loans  credit freeze .. build stopped  jobs lost this all fed into it.take our PDX market .. 10k homes or doors built a year or more from 1990 to 2008... 2009   700 total that's all.. next year 1500 next year 2500 next year 3500 next year 5000 plus..