Eventually, the 26-year-old found some more reasonable landlords: She can live in their building in the northern suburb of Malad as long as she promises not to don short skirts or invite friends (other than her mom) to visit.
While renters should face fair and reasonable prices, landlords need to be able to at least break even on any outgoings they have, such as a mortgage.
A Adam Leitman Bailey, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, says that the law allows a landlord reasonable access to an apartment for reasonable duration and with reasonable frequency.
"It is supposed to do that by placing limitations on the amount of profit that can be taken out of buildings and, while guaranteeing a reasonable return to landlords, limiting the amount that landlords could increase rents".
Once a landlord has reasonable grounds to believe that a tenant is violating the code, the landlord can start an eviction action.
"If an eviction proceeding is commenced, the tenant on the lease may also be responsible for other charges including, but not limited to, the landlord's reasonable attorneys' fees," he said.
Even if Facebook starts charging rent, Hong is fine with that as long as the rent is reasonable (like any mall landlord, Facebook should know that its stores have to make money too).
Still, there's no need to panic just yet: landlords are reasonable people.
If the duo would need to earn three times the rent, a reasonable requirement by most landlords, together they would need to make at least $54,900 a year.
But the landlord is a reasonable man, he assured me.
