Can you live in a rented commercial property?
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Can you live in a rented commercial property?
Asked on December 8, 2011 under Real Estate Law, New Jersey
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Whether or not your lease allows you to live in a rented commercial property (eat, sleep, shower and relax after work hours) depends upon several factors. The first is, does the written lease prohibit the actual living in the unit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
You need to carefully read the lease in that its terms and conditions control the obligations that you owe the landlord and vice versa in the absence of conflicting state law.
If the lease does not state that you cannot, then you can provided the zoning requirements where the commercial rental is located does not prohibit the arrangement you want to do with the rental.
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