Ross Gold

Peter you are great. Thanks so much. Really good advice and a great help. And, you are 100% correct in your curiousity about how town found out. What happened was, a builder bought the home next to the my fathers clients building, and wanted to build a four unit complex just like ours and the town said no. Then they asked why my clients building was a four unit building and the town said "oh really", and the story goes from there. For some reason, no complaints here, the town is letting my client and here family occupy the building without a C/O. It is only occupied by family. The issue si that our client wants to sell the building and can not without a C/O and so forth. Well, thanks again. Ttyl all later. I am heading over to building dept. right now. I will update in case anyone is curious on what they have to say. Take care. - Wed Jul 16 2008, 11:08

Wow, this site is great. Great answers. Thanks all. All little additional information. Our clients husband who has since passed, did the conversion work without permits about 20-25 years ago. Currently, she lives there with her family and occupies three of the four units. She is in one. Son and family in one. And other son in the other. the fourth unit is empty. He should have got permits prior and would of known he couldn't do it. Now she is left with his mess to clean up. Each half of the building actually has one staircase that runs the entire length of each half. What separates top and bottom of each half is just a door in the staircase. Well, thanks again and I am going to go talk to the city zonning officer. That seems like the place to start. I just didnt want to awaken a sleeping dog until I had a resolution. It has been a while and I havent heard from them. But, our client want to sell the building but cannot becuase of violations. Maybe, a buyer would be willing to find a resolution and pay to fix problem. Taking that money out of final selling price. Thanks. - Wed Jul 16 2008, 08:19