Whether they want to live there or not, they bought the house. Who knows what they had to do to buy it, what fees they had to pay. Are they just going to sell it (maybe at a loss) and go through the whole process again somewhere else?
This is actual crap. Frankly, if this were enforced in the SF Bay Area, where I've lived all my live, hundreds of thousands of people would be out on the street. Unrelated people rent out rooms and share houses all the time, even in the nicest of neighborhoods. I'm not talking about just unmarried partners or students, but middle-aged professionals who can't afford more than that.
Unfortunately, such laws usually stand because the people they wrong don't have the money to fight them in court. Hope the ACLU goes all the way on this one.
As to why no one told the unlucky couple in advance -- well, the owners and realtors wanted to sell the house. Wasn't _their_ business whether the new owners could live in it or not.
Last edited by Rodney; 05-19-2006 at 12:16 PM..
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