-Easier at home. Whats to debate?

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-19-2008
-Easier at home. Whats to debate?
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Tue, 07-08-2008 - 9:18pm

I am a teacher off for the summer.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2007
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:26pm

LOL me too but I usually do that while eating caviar shipped in from the most expensive place I can find ;)


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-30-2007
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:27pm
Has to?
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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2007
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:30pm

I am in Houston too and it IS

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-08-2008
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:33pm
I am well aware of places like that as they are common by me too.
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-08-2008
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:34pm
I do know about multi-family zoning and I also know about illegal apts in someone's home, which are single-family zoning homes.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-30-2007
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:35pm

Well don't say that I didn't warn you that everything will be debated here.

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Registered: 02-08-2008
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 5:36pm
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.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 6:04pm

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.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 6:06pm
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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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 07-14-2008 - 6:07pm
A historical nugget. See- history really is important!

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