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Which actually makes sense if you think about it--if it was an instant eviction it would be very valuable to the landlord. They can rent and take your money for
by jonknee 13y ago
Which actually makes sense if you think about it--if it was an instant eviction it would be very valuable to the landlord. They can rent and take your money for years and whenever they want to get rid of you and flip the property they report the unit and boom you are gone without any rights.
What would make even more sense is very severe fines to the landlord for renting illegal units. Something like a multiple of all the rent they have ever collected on it.
- zaroth 13y agoThey can only do that if it's an illegal unit, which is not exactly a secret from the renter when they first moved in. Now, if there was a way a tenant could make a legal unit into an illegal unit and then invoke this, I could see that as a problem.
- flomo 13y agoActually, a prospective tenant probably has no idea if the unit is "illegal" or not. It is an apartment for rent and there is a line going out the door, so don't ask any annoying questions. I can understand the confusion because I once interned for a midwestern city's planning department. There if someone built an unapproved apartment above their garage, the city would hit them like a ton of bricks. In San Francisco, it is not like that, and these so-called "illegal" units are enshrined by law and practice in many respects. As a tenant, you have nearly all the same rights as a legal unit, so this would probably not figure into your evaluation.