I live in DC. Own a house and rent out my 2nd bedroom in my house. He signed a month to month lease in Aug 2006. When can I raise the rent and how much? Someone told me since it's my house and he's renting a room, I can raise it whenever and however much. Checking to see what others say. Thanks.

Fr_Chuck

First of course to even legally rent it, you would have to have it zoned as multi family or zoned as a boarding house. If it is zoned single family I doubt your rental is even legal.

But I am not up on the specific rent control, I know they have some laws on that, so the way to be sure is to contact the rent control board and find out.