The City of Saskatoon’s permitting records show whether a second unit is a legal secondary suite or an unpermitted conversion, and that distinction affects both financing and resale, since an unpermitted unit is treated very differently by a lender than a properly registered one.
A $400 to $600 home inspection on a two-family property should cover both units separately, since a landlord-occupied unit and a tenant-occupied unit often carry different wear, and the Saskatoon benchmark of $444,700 is only a starting reference point for a property type that prices on its income potential as much as its size.
Joel Dyck reviews both the property and the paperwork behind a second unit before a buyer counts on that income. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.