[thrownaway2424]

You seem to be confused about what legal protections are or are not in place, and whom the law protects. This isn't some loophole or edge case in the law, this is an explicit protection for lessee which is written into the law for a specific reason. "Legitimate slumlords", if you can tolerate such a concept, are well aware of this provision, and will bodily remove you and your belongings from their flop houses on the 29th day.

This is just an example of a person with barely enough capital to dabble in capitalism and lose. They thought they were going to flip a condo into rental income, skirted the law -- one wonders what other shortcuts were taken; did they have an occupant's insurance policy or a landlord's policy? did they take out a mortgage under the pretense of occupancy? Are they taking income tax interest deductions and claiming homeowner's property tax exemptions -- and pretty much got what they had coming.

[mattdeboard]

"Did they break the law? Are they immoral heathens? I'm not saying that the answer to either of these is yes, but isn't it interesting that I'm the only one asking such questions?"

This post is really the ultimate in weasel-y, passive-aggressive muckraking. If you've got a point, make it.