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Kristian M Zoerhoff <kmz@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On 2012-06-15, Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>> In article bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com says...
>>> >                                                I was somewhat amazed by 
>>> >this because in Chicago doing this is kind of highly illegal.  Chicago 
>>> >has pretty hefty hotel taxes and the one thing I remember at closing of 
>>> >my place is I had to be read a statement aloud saying I shall not do 
>>> >what this site wants me to do by some lawyer and then had to initial 
>>> >that clause in whatever contract was being signed at the moment.
>>> 
>>> That was probably part of some Condo/Coop Association covenants.
>>
>> My place isn't a condo or HOA and there are no private covenants.  The 
>> only reason I remembered this is because the lawyer read the passage  
>> like a priest reading me a prayer -- as if he was required by law to 
>> read this.  I suspect it was either a city of Chicago or Cook county 
>> thing -- I can't remember since it was a very very long time ago.  
>
> Are you sure it wasn't a condition of your mortgage? Mine is very clear 
> that it's a residential mortgage, not for rental or income-generating 
> property.

I pulled the paperwork on my Evanston condo, there were two things about it.
The first was an affidavit where I said I lived there (it was a refi),
present tense.  The second was in the mortgage it said I had to occupy
within 60 days and for at least 1 year.