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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Rent Out a Windowless Bedroom

    It sounds like you're a subtenant; are you an authorized subtenant?

    I cannot find codes or regulations specific to this issue for your state; there may be such codes, or may be local regulation, but I'm not presently finding it.

    Typically a legal bedroom must have two means of exit -- meaning that it may be possible for a room to be a legal bedroom if it has no window, but in most cases the window would serve as the second means of exit.

    There is no reason that you can't have a bedroom adjacent to the entry to a building or, for that matter, you couldn't choose to set up your home so that people entered into your bedroom (if, for some reason, you wanted that).

    Meanwhile, try spending time outside of your bedroom; outside of the apartment, if necessary.

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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Rent Out a Windowless Bedroom

    Every inhabitable room needs an escape route. A window is usually that rout.

    The West Virginia Fire Commission has adopted statewide the IBC, IRC, IMC, IFGC, IPC, IPMC and IEBC for any jurisdiction that chooses to enforce codes.

    https://windowwellexperts.com/irc-co...west-virginia/

    So a bedroom without a window or a window that is not 5.7 square feet in area or less than 5 square feet below grade, violates the codes.

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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Rent Out a Windowless Bedroom

    When a room is required to have two exits, although as previously indicated one of those exits may be a window, it remains possible for a room to have two exits without either of those exits being a window.

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