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Just received a letter from township saying that they received a complaint regarding possible "stacking" i(housing more people than allowed) in my house and want to come to inspect.
The situation is: this is a single family house and has four bedrooms. I live in the master and three person stay in the rest. Is that against the law? what should I do the get ready for the inspection?
Any advice is appriciated!
You could either talk to a lawyer, or if you don't want to spend the money, try to extract information on what the laws are from the town and try to make sure you're not breaking too many of them. This is the kind of issue that requires detailed local knowledge.
Hopefully if they find you're not really "stacking", they'll leave you alone.
What they are worried about is multiple families in a single family home (read: multiple family living on single family taxes).
If this is the case, it is wrong, especially if there are kids there, going to schools on the tax money. If not, you just have room mates and there's nothing wrong with that.
The OP still has not mentioned who these other people are..why they are there..hence he/she is hiding something..hence...it is most probably wrong and at fault..Until there is more facts explained, I stand by my original notion that they are in the wrong. All the advise Im hearing is how to skirt the law/avoid getting in trouble..which will just make matters worse.
there is nothing to hide......three tenants who are all professionals. I have only two concerns:
1. i didn't registor with township anout the renting because i didn't know and still don't know if it's required.
2. if there is a limit on how many tenants a single family unit can have.
The OP still has not mentioned who these other people are..why they are there..hence he/she is hiding something..hence...it is most probably wrong and at fault..Until there is more facts explained, I stand by my original notion that they are in the wrong. All the advise Im hearing is how to skirt the law/avoid getting in trouble..which will just make matters worse.
Are you the one who called and reported him? Cheeze, nobody has to tell us all of their business.
Why is it illegal to rent out a room? Your not changing the use of the property its still single family. The town may have issues with parking.
As soon as you rent space, it is no longer single family.
Parking can be a big part of it if off street parking is not plentiful. People who cannot park in front of their house because the tenants from a rental operation take up street spaces have an incentive to call the zoning inspectors.
As soon as you rent space, it is no longer single family.
Parking can be a big part of it if off street parking is not plentiful. People who cannot park in front of their house because the tenants from a rental operation take up street spaces have an incentive to call the zoning inspectors.
Thats not true. Your not changing the use of the home. Your only renting a room. Check the zoning laws for your town. You can most likely find this online.
Many towns have limits on the number of unrelated individuals who can live in a house zoned as a single-family residence. It's specifically designed to prevent exactly what you're doing: turning a single-family home into a de facto apartment building.
Why would your neighbors complain? Perhaps they don't like all the cars parking around your house. Maybe they have had negative run-ins with some of your tenants. Or maybe they just don't like the fact that they bought into a neighborhood of single-family homes and now you are running a boarding house next door.
Whatever the reason, you're in the wrong. Your best bet is to cooperate with the inspection, pay whatever fines you need to pay, and give your tenants notice ASAP so they can start looking for a new place to live. What you're doing is almost certainly against the law in your town.
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