Philly; buying RM1 single family houses and converting into duplexes?

[Alex Grabish]

Hey all! I’m an aspiring investor based out of the Philly market, my main strategy I’m focusing on is house hacking a duplex or triplex in an affordable-ish neighborhood and one of the biggest problems I run into on listings is the property not being legally zoned for a multi family use. I have done my research and I’m confident in saying I would like to keep my visits to the zoning committee minimal. So the other day I was browsing the Philly ATLAS for a duplexs’ zoning and I happened to stumble upon a single family home on an all rm1 zoned block and I was wondering how feasible it is to convert a single family row home into a duplex if it’s already zoned/if anyone has any experience doing this, thanks!