Saturday, January 29, 2011

BASEMENT APARTMENT RETROFIT - "Untagling the web"

In a city like Toronto, where the apartment vacancy rate is low and real estate values are high, many people rely on the rental income from a basement apartment to give them the edge they need to own a home. But is it a ‘legal’ apartment? If not, how can it be made ‘legal’? In the process of legalizing the apartment, will I be inviting ‘trouble’? What if the ‘city’ prescribes improvements that are prohibitively expensive? What if the ‘city’ decides that I can’t have an apartment?  To read more click on the link below.

http://www.carsondunlop.com/2011/12/basement-apartment-retrofit-untangling-the-web/