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So by the same logic the woman should have never taken up the lease in the first place given the illegal nature of it.

• jonknee 13y ago
  ... Or the person profiting from it. If there was a fine of something like 3x all rent you have collected on an illegal unit to the current owner it would take care of itself--no one would buy a place with an illegal apartment in it (like this guy did, fully willing to keep taking the money for 10 years) and no one would be tempted to make any more illegal apartments. Just make it easy to check with the city about the legalities. Currently it appears while the unit is illegal, there is no penalty for having rented out an illegal unit for a dozen years. The "penalty" is that you get to evict whoever you had been renting to (which means they lose on their renters rights) while you get to keep all the money. She sounds like an absolute pain in the ass, but neither party was nobel.