House for Sale/Inlaw Rental Unit question

[anyvold]

This is a back-up question to one that you guys answered a month ago. The situation is such that, I'm renting an Inlaw Unit in a residence. I signed a year lease when I moved in on March 1st. Almost immediately, the owners said that they were putting the house on the market. Apparantly I'm protected by the lease, and I was advised not to worry. [The new owner of the house would 'inherit' my lease.]
My question is, I have come to realize that the unit is not legal. I pay a flat rate, utilities are included in my rent. And now that the building inspectors have been by, my fears have been confirmed. The unit is not legal. Does this make my lease null and void? Am I still protected by my 'lease', or should I presume that I will either be asked to move, or that my rent will be jacked sky high?
Incidentally, the property is in Marin, CA, and my rent is exorbitantly expensive as it is. Affordable housing is very difficult to come by.
HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you in advance,
Annie

 

[FarmerJ]

Has the city sent you a letter telling you to vacate since the unit is not legal as a rental ? The only way it could be legal unit at this point is if the unit existed long before your city had any zoning rules that prohibited it and that debate is a matter your landlord will have to take up with your city .

 

[renter3]

YOUR lease is paramount.....

If your landlord wants you to move Welll....

He will have to PAY YOU to break the lease.

And if the place is illegal but livable, then an inspector will not order you out.....

Instead he will order the landlord to get you out. BIG DIFFERENCE...see above!


PS....NOW YOU KNOW if the utilities (electric) are included its probably Illegal.

 

[Cvillecpm]

Your lease is valid and unless you "squeek" to the "guys in the building with the blue tiled roof" you are OK.

Stay where you are and let seller and prospective new buyer deal with you with $$$ if they want you out of the unit.