Those games often led to space that was illegally converted to an additional rental unit.

Inspectors found in September 2005 that five apartments had been illegally converted to 18 bedrooms.

He was also not the only landlord in Maspeth whose property had been illegally converted.

In addition, the Government says that about $480 million of blocked money was illegally converted into the new currency, the cruzeiro.

But the fire quickly raced out of control and engulfed the house, which had been illegally converted from a commercial property into five apartments.

Some spaces had been converted illegally into outdoor restaurants or retail shops.

And morphine from opium is illegally converted to the highly addictive drug.

Unreliable freight elevators converted illegally to passenger use are common.

The main goal was to eliminate the construction of space that could later be converted illegally by the buyer into a rentable apartment.

Some landlords, though, break the law so overtly that illegally converted apartments have become their trademark.