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Gary Fraser-Lee
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  • Grand Rapids, MI
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Renting a zoned "single family home" to multiple unrelated students

Gary Fraser-Lee
  • Investor
  • Grand Rapids, MI
Posted Jul 3 2014, 11:06

I am looking at purchasing a single family home (4 bedrooms) near a local university.    It is zoned specifically "Single Family Home"   According to the zoning ordinance this means :   

Family means a person living alone in a single dwelling unit or two or more persons whose domestic relationship is of a continuing, nontransient character and who reside together as a single housekeeping unit in one dwelling unit. "Family" does not include a collective number of individuals occupying a motel, fraternity, sorority, society, club, boarding or lodging house, or any other collective number of individuals whose domestic relationship is of a transient or seasonal nature.

Should I be concerned about possibly renting to 4 unrelated students...  It seems to me this is a common occurance...   but legally I could get called out on this???

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