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A Realtor for this building allowed me to use unrentable space pro bono for a few years, including an elevator shaft that had been paved over and a closet.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2018

The first U.A.L., which opened in Hattiesburg in 1980, was in an unrentable building 10 feet from the railroad tracks.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2017

The change has cost the mall’s sports store C$50,000 a year and has made some units unrentable.

From Economist • Nov. 6, 2014

Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans.

From Time Magazine Archive

One whole side of our motel was without electricity, and therefore unrentable, for two days and two nights, until the understaffed electrical department could send some men out.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy