Ulysses wrote:

"Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
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Beachcomber wrote:
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The key person to talk to is your postmaster in the local post office
serving your address.
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Whether the USPS will issue an additional address or not has no bearing
on the legal use of the domicile outside local zoning regulations. OP
could possibly get a dozen more USPS addresses but whether he can sublet
or effectively turn a house into a duplex in a single-residence zoned
area and get away with it will depend on his local jurisdiction (and to
a large part his neighbors if outside the zoning regulations).

It is simply not wise to buy a property on a premise w/o being certain
of all legal covenants/restrictions on that property. The existence or
not of a USPS delivery address isn't one of those even though it may
currently exist and an additional one might be granted.

First of all I agree completely with what you are saying but that fact that
it has two electric meters indicates that it was used for two residences. I
doubt the electric company would have installed a second meter if it was not
allowed by the county/city. My question is where does the second meter go?

Probably to the two apartments but it you apparently don't have a single
dwelling or it is not in conformance with zoning regulations (which
happens, sometimes people don't follow rules (gasp!). I think it
imperative to find out from the city what the actual zoning rules are
before going ahead if you have some reason to think this is actually
supposed to be a one-family residential area.

You do have a legal beagle on your side here, don't you?