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Montana’s Democratic U.S. House candidate, Rob Quist has ties to a rental property not listed on state tax rolls, public records show.

Quist acknowledged the apartments Tuesday in an interview with The Gazette, but denied renting out the units. Advertising records and leasing contracts suggest otherwise.

“My son’s living there, so that’s not a rental property. It's just something that's kind of family-owned,” Quist said.

At issue is a 1948 barn that Rob and Bonni Quist converted into commercial property. Quist, 69, a musician by trade, explained the arrangement to The Gazette in a March 24 interview.

"We took this 100-year-old barn and we were running an event center early on, in the ’90s, and so took this 100-year-old barn, and we made it into an event center with three apartments. And so our whole goal is to sell the ranch house and 10 acres and move over into the old barn," Quist said.

State property tax records don’t indicate those changes, taxing it instead as a barn with no living quarters. The Flathead County Assessor’s office also lists the structure as a barn. The distinction matters because the Department of Revenue generally recognizes apartment units as more valuable than barns. The tax amount owed on rental property is typically higher.