Dear Monty: We bought our home in 2018. My mother purchased the plot directly behind our property and built herself a home. Keeping the two properties separate was strategically decided to take advantage of her homestead exemptions and freeze her property taxes. We did entertain early on combining both properties under our homestead. The original thought was to combine the two properties when I turn 65 to take advantage of the tax exemptions. Now separately selling her property doesn’t seem feasible. The city established her home’s primary address as a subset to ours. When she bought the lot, we met with them, and the city told us they would use the physical address recognized on the plat map. She then purchased the lot and built the house. It wasn’t until she finished the place and we received the occupancy permit that we learned the city no longer permitted addresses on …