Make sure before you do anything you talk to the county/city building department and make sure they will allow a secondary dwelling on your property if you haven't already :) Also it does make a difference if the secondary dwelling will be attached or detached to the main house for loan possibilities and permits. if you need a lender...let me know and I'll put you in contact with my guy whom I quoted above. 

I am well aware of zoning and I plan to check with the city's building department.

The health department or whoever regulates restaurants don't know if that chicken is really chicken.

So all that worry over nothing.Regarding the Maryland Department of the Environment's website where I had to register, that site hates Firefox.

Several times in my own experience and with my friends' experiences, we have all received Friday evening (after 6pm) emails (from the lender or other departments, not the loan officer) demanding document response within 48 hours - with no access to the loan officer for questions or any indication as to what the consequences are if your response is late or incomplete.It can be VERY frustrating if you don't keep the prize in sight. 

It is in the builders interest to get the water and sewer hook up done ASAP in order to reduce the cost of having the fee tied up at the City.Once new water service is complete, email the department and the cheque will be issued only to the name on file.

This task is a lot harder than it looks, and needs to be repeated countless times to fill every joint.post 32 - dealing with city hallIn a recent post, I discussed how I was threatened with a $10-14k bill from the roads department at City hall regarding damage to the alley behind my project.

She is in charge of the commercial loan department. 

Left a couple voicemails and sent me some nasty text messages saying how this AC issue is causing him money and losing clients and plan on calling the county health department and get his attorney to come after us.

I talked to a Marci who oversees property management at the Colorado Division of Real Estate to confirm what I was reading, but as I work more and more on a database of Airbnb laws -- and talk to city departments -- I learn to always ask the same question more than once.