Christian Osgood walks through why a rental unit was shut down by city officials. The living room was being used as a bedroom without legal egress, the ceiling is barely 6.5 feet tall with a structural beam running through the kitchen too low, and adding the required egress to the bedroom is physically impossible. The unit will be sold as a house instead.
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This rental got shut down by the city, and here's why. Check it out. First of all, they were using what is technically the living room as a bedroom that has no egress, and it was obviously designed to be the bedroom. So not a legal bedroom. So right there, problem. Two, look at the ceiling height here. That is a low ceiling. I'm 6 feet tall. That's like a 6.5-foot ceiling, uh, which by the way is the minimum for code. What is not the minimum code— this beam running through the middle of the kitchen is too low. So when the city came in, they checked it out and said, hey, that beam needs to be re-engineered and the ceiling needs to be raised for the kitchen, and we need you to add egress to the interior bedroom, which is not possible. Two things that we could not do, so they came in and shut us down. While this is a cute little bonus unit, we're not putting it on market. It's going to be sold as a house.