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Originally Posted by GigiBowman
Well there you go  Now go and take a gander at craigs list and all the illegal accessory apartments listed directly by the landlords themselves. In towns like Huntington a landlord can be fined up to $24,000 of a years rent. Yet it all still goes on. Why? Because people can't afford to live in their own houses without a rental income. Do you think it's this way all over the country or is it just a Long Island thing with these illegal accessory apartments? |
I suspect it is mainly a LI and boroughs thing due to the age of the housing stock (a lot of younger areas have big apartment complexes; housing like this was not in style here when our area was first built up; single family home was KING) and due to the geography (there is more room to build OUT indefinitely in middle America as opposed to being on an island like Nassau, Suffolk, BK, QNS, SI are).
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