. >> good evening, members of the board, my name is thomas wu, i'm representing new china realty corporation, the current owners of the building as well as the permit holder. i assume you have read both the appellant's brief and ours, i don't think i need to go over it in complete gory detail, but just to give the audience some idea of the perspective, we are not responsible for creating this lease and this situation with the tenant. we inherited the property midway through his tenancy. the previous owner who had the building since 200if you are apparently ran into financial difficulties last august and that apparently prompted him to lease this rear garage area as a living space to the appellant which, as the appellant says, began in september of that year. we purchased the building in march, 2012, and we are as contrary to what the appellant says, we are not real estate professionalsment we do hold the building in a corporation but my wife and i have full-time jobs elsewhere. we merely hold this as an investment property. upon meeting with a lawyer to discuss various issues we learned abou