Go into your building department and verify as well.

My original document provider was well versed in all things 401k, but the gentlemen in charge of that department passed away.

How many people know that they had to pack up the engineering department and come back to Cali because of the poor talent pool in Texas? 

It's really hard to know what direction your city council will go in but it's advisable to try to talk to someone in the City planning department to get a read on the council's sentiment and to ensure you are at council meetings where it's going to be discussed. 

Dear All,I have a question on my two rental properties: One property has a profit this year ($2k profit, but carry over loss is $30K); The other property is a loss ($4k loss, carry over loss is roughly $25K). 

city county  planning departments  then the long range planner most have a person tasked to long range planning.. 

Local city or country building department can give you the code info.

That's our first Delma, second several places will not accept a P.O.Box as your address, like the motor vehicle department, my supplier for my insulin pump supplies and so on.

Obviously we need to do some groundwork with the City planning department and potentially zoning.We are approached constantly by developers seeking to purchase the property for them to develop (everything from we want to build homes to help the environment to building condos for our 98 year old grandmother to live in). 

For permits https://desotomo.com/departments/animal-control/I would suggest you vet any GC very carefully, make sure their plumbers, electrician and HVAC are state licensed.I'd also suggest permitted work for liability and equity purposes.The electrical will be dependent on what code cycle of the NEC that Desoto has adopted.Its doubtful an old HVAC is performing adequately relative to its installation let alone relative to current requirements.