Is working from home just living your normal life, or can a landlord actually say you’re running a business?

Anele and the Club on 947 · 12 June 2026 · 18m

Speaker 1: Wake Up with a fang, wake Up and the club on nine four seven. Speaker 2: I know the. Speaker 3: Economy is in the doll drums because everybody's trying to make an extra penny from Speaker 3: someone. Speaker 4: Right. Speaker 3: So there is a lady who wrote a she didn't write a letter, she posted Speaker 3: the story. She has always worked at an office, right, and now they are allowed Speaker 3: to work from home more than they work at the office. It's kind of like Speaker 3: a fifty to fifty split, especially around the petrol price. She's renting her apartment. It's Speaker 3: a two bedroom apartment, but if her townhouse set up and listen to this, her Speaker 3: landlord is threatening to increase her rent because he says that she is now treating Speaker 3: the apartment as a business place, and he is well within his right to charge Speaker 3: her more for rent because she works from home. And in my moment, I'm like, Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a very thin line and it's very blurred, but I don't Speaker 3: think she's necessarily running a business from her apartment. But she is doing business from Speaker 3: her apartment. Do you catch where the problem could lie? Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if let's say I'm I have a fat that I Speaker 1: rent out for example, yeah, to you guys. I can see how we got here, Speaker 1: so I rented out to you guys. You just stay there. But as soon as Speaker 1: you're running a business from there, I think it's a landlord. Maybe i'd feel like

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