Because as I have stated before, I have spoken to friends, family and neighbors who have these apts. My neighbor sold her house last year and all they had to do was take 2 things out to make it a "living space" of the house and not an apt so she would not have gotten fined.
The owner is paying tax on a living space that they themselves can't live in because it is being rented out. Therefore they are paying tax on rental property (even if that rental property is the 1st floor of their own home). The money they get from renting helps offset the cost of that property tax, whether it is legal and declared or illegal and undeclared. The only exception is if they suddenly stop paying taxes once they start renting. Which would be silly since they'd lose the property. It's neither here nor there that they were able to afford the tax bill before renting.
I did that too. They lived on one floor of the house and we lived on the other. It's incredibly common. And legal- assuming you follow all the protocols she outlined, which we did.
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LOL me too but I usually do that while eating caviar shipped in from the most expensive place I can find ;)
I am in Houston too and it IS
Well don't say that I didn't warn you that everything will be debated here.
The owner is paying tax on a living space that they themselves can't live in because it is being rented out. Therefore they are paying tax on rental property (even if that rental property is the 1st floor of their own home). The money they get from renting helps offset the cost of that property tax, whether it is legal and declared or illegal and undeclared. The only exception is if they suddenly stop paying taxes once they start renting. Which would be silly since they'd lose the property. It's neither here nor there that they were able to afford the tax bill before renting.
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