Certificate of Occupancy - Old house in ISLIP NY (buyer, legal)

[eululie]

Our home was built in The Town of Islip over a hundred years ago. The last home improvement was made in 2005 which included an addition to the house. Will we need a CO to sell the house?

[markjames68]

Yes unless you get lucky with an all-cash buyer who doesn’t care.

[twingles]

Yes....happened to my parents. But my father a//k/a THE HOARDER had the plans for the house that had been left by the original owner. Took them to town hall and got the CO.

I would talk to the town about what you'd need to get the CO.

[TomMoser]

You could probably get a Certificate of Existing Use (same as a c/o but used for homes built before the building code went into effect. But, that would only be for the original structure. For the addition, you would need a c/o.

[nuts2uiam]

A family member was in what now would be over a hundred year old home and there was not CO's back then. They did a legal addition though and they had the CO for that as Tom Moser indicated. They had no problem with the sale.