Posted on: August 12, 2025 07:00 AM

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NYC house turned into illegal mini hotel complete with soda machine but owner won t pay USD420K in fines suit

A Queens homeowner illegally turned his house into an Airbnb-style hotel with numbered units and even a soda machine — but refused to pay $420,000 in fines when he was caught, a new lawsuit claims.

Gurcharan Kaur has yet to fork over the cash from seven separate $60,000 fines issued in fall 2022, when he was accused of converting his Kew Gardens home into a getaway with daily bookings, the suit alleges.

Kaur was found in violation by an administrative court, but has yet to pay a dime of the nearly half-a-million dollars in fines — and the time to challenge the violations has passed, the city said.