Statutes and Regulatory Practices
The trickiest restrictions on property usage emanate from more general city, county and state regulations. They are tricky precisely because they are more general, because they are not “attached” to the specific property that you are looking at. As a consequence, you will probably receive no specific notification of these restrictions during the home buying process. For example, many city and county ordinances restrict the number of dogs that a homeowner can have on a residential property or the number of unrelated individuals who can share a home. If you have five dogs or five good friends who will be