Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Wisconsin
Unrelated tenants living in a house
What are the regulations pertaining to unrelated tenants living in a house? There are four bedrooms, with one being vacant, with four people living there now. Three unrelated others would like to live there also. Is there a restriction that would only allow so many people to live in a house?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Unrelated tenants living in a house
To answer your question adequately, one would need
to review the ordinances for the community in which
the house is located. Although not all such ordinances
are uniform, generally, if the property is zoned
single family, the inhabitants are considered a
single family if they eat their main meal together,
share vehicles, do wash together, and carry on as
if they were in fact one family. Most unrelated
people do not live in this fashion and consequently,
they violate the zoning by creating a multi-family
situation in a single family zoned area.