All Forum Posts by: Eric Selinter

@Wayne Brooks @Jay Helms @Ghazey Aleck It turns out in his counter offer he wants the line about permits out: 1: 

"The Seller is to close out any open, expired and current permits. Seller certifies that any and all additions, renovations and additions have been properly permitted by the city and county as required"

Also, we contacted the county and they require a rental license, which involves county inspectors to come to the property to deem it rentalable. We asked the seller if he had the license (the building is fully rented out) and he said he doesn't. 

He does not have a rental license. He is basically illegally renting property in a building that has been illegally converted to a duplex and doesn’t have a single permit for any updates to a historic home.

I feel like he is trying to scam us. This is our first home buy and we are really confused.

@Jay Helms, do you think the following line would cover that on our end?

"The Seller is to close out any open, expired and current permits. Seller certifies that any and all additions, renovations and additions have been properly permitted by the city and county as required"

Thanks Ghazey. It does show proper Zoning and Unit count.

Thanks Wayne!

It does show on the county site that the property is 3 units (which is correct), just the wrong bedroom count. 

I put in my offer the following lines: 

1: "The Seller is to close out any open, expired and current permits. Seller certifies that any and all additions, renovations and additions have been properly permitted by the city and county as required"

2: "Contract is contingent on the County Property Appraiser records to match the actual ft2 and units/beds/baths of the three units."

They came back in a counteroffer excepting "1" but not excepting "2" 

Would them excepting the first clause essentially cover us from the county. I think they just don't want to involve a county appraiser coming in and picking apart the place...

Hey all!

I am putting an offer on my first rental place/first house in general!  After looking at the records I found that the property has wrong information listed on the County Property Appraiser website. The property consists of a 2/1-1/1 duplex with a 1/1 cottage behind it. However, on the County site it has the main building listed as a 5/2 with the 1/1. This is my first time buying a house and I am scared of something going wrong. It is in a historic neighborhood too, so I just am nervous that the 5/2 was converted to a duplex and the County doesn't know. Has anyone had this happen? Is this is big deal?

Thank you so much, I am very green to all of this and really would like some of your seasoned input.