Non Conforming Second Unit?

I've been so negligent of my blog! Sorry but I've been extremely busy.

So here's the recent scoop on the house we are selling. It's really bad news.

It turns out that our second house on the property is nonconforming and doesn't meet zoning laws. Even though we checked with the assessor's office and the inspector's office before buying the property, it turns out that we have this problem and no one knew it until we dug up some old records on file with the assessor.

We called prepaid legal to see if we can do anything, but no one can legally be help responsible. We could only hold the seller responsible for not telling us if we could prove that they knew, and I don't think we could do that. And now that WE know, we have to tell everyone who wants to buy or we could get into trouble.

We found out after we got the offer on our house, and everything was fine up until that point. But once we found out about the second house being a nonconforming unit, we had to tell our potential buyer, and they eventually decided that they did not want the property because of this problem.

Suck! We were so close to being done with the whole thing. So now we have to start again. I'm hoping to get the house re-listed tonight (I let it expire) and start taking more calls. But there's no doubt that this is probably going to lower the value of the property. What a mess. :(