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[quote=Anonymous]We live in the U Street/Logan area and have been renting out our basement illegally for years. We were warned when we bought the place that the whole process of making it legal is corrupt and that once you start there's no going back -- so you don't want to get stuck in the system. We have everything up to and exceeding code, and we declare all of the income to the IRS. We even have a DC business licence. We just don't have a C of O and aren't going to get one. Our main issues is that the electrical panel for the upstairs (where we live) is in the basement apartment. So, on the rare occasions where we've needed access to it, we've have to go into the basement apartment. If the tenant doesn't care, what's the problem? I totally understand how it might be a problem if it were the other way around -- that is, if they needed access to our part of the house for their electric -- but they don't. [/quote]
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