I am considering buying a property that has a very old, dilapidated house on it in a residential area. The house is not renovation-worthy. Whomever buys it must knock it down and rebuild.<\/p>\n
How do I find out if what I want to build can be built before I actually buy the property? I have spoken w\/ the city and found out the technicalities as to the allowable square footage and the footprint of the construction.<\/p>\n
The seller claims she cannot afford to knock down and construct due to the economy; and she may be telling the truth. But what if she is selling because she found out there was some stipulation to building that is difficult to overcome? <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am considering buying a property that has a very old, dilapidated house on it in a residential area. The house is not renovation-worthy. Whomever buys it must knock it down and rebuild. How do I find out if what I want to build can be built before I actually buy the property? I have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-33099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/new-residential\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New Residential Building","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/new-residential\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/06\/new-residential\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Real Estate","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"bklynbound"}],"creator":["bklynbound"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-06-15T14:54:19Z","datePublished":"2009-06-15T14:54:19Z","dateModified":"2009-06-15T14:54:19Z"},"rendered":"