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(There are plenty of possible situations where OP might get a roommate and not charge rent - if she invites her child/parent/sibling/BF to come live with her, for example. I have a friend who invited her sister to live with her for six months after sister went through an incredibly abusive spousal relationship and acrimonious divorce - violence and stalking etc., the whole nine yards - so that sister could get a job, a place of her own, and back on her feet again. This was in no way a landlord-tenant relationship. I think OP's condo board is trying to allow the residents to have that sort of freedom, while at the same time preventing a whole lot of stranger tenants from constantly moving in/out of the building.)