Just bought a single family with basement ADU that turned out to be illegal.

[Jonathan Rieder]

Hi all,

Looking for some guidance. We just bough out 2nd property (single family with a 2br ADU in basement) with the intention of renting out the ADU. Unfortunately someone from the town had to come out due to an unexpected boiler replacement a week into owning. This resulted in them noticing that there appears to be an ADU so he look through the records and I guess had never been permitted. Any advice on this? Do I need to go through the whole process of getting this permitted now or can I just pull out the kitchen and say its another room ('ve been told that's a thing)? Also is there anyway to turn this back on the seller (who it turns out lied about quite a few other things), we were under the impression it was a legal ADU. I assume a lot of people will say this was due to lack of due-diligence and in that case I supposed I've learned a lesson here.