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Or are you allowed to treat the property like a home and allow anyone to visit for as long as they want, or let anyone live with you, as long as it's not a 55 and over and have those rules.
Our HOA doesn't restrict visitors, having a roommate, or significant other living with you. Building code restricts the number of people living in a dwelling.
My community is gated and the HOA requires a pass for anyone spending the night. They consider anything past 11 p.m. as "overnight". A friend who stayed until 11:30 p.m. got one of those annoying, hard to remove stickers on her car when she visited. So not the place to live if you have a tendency toward one night stands or booty calls. :-)
About 52% of the units where I live are owned by investors who bought when the housing market crashed a few years ago and they are rented out. We just received notices that short term rentals are not allowed.
Before buying a home with an HOA I would definitely look over the rules. Some won't allow any pet over 25 pounds even if you have a single family home, some have rules that your garage door is not allowed to be open except for when you are coming or going. Just make sure you can live with the rules before you buy.
Furnished rentals is a tough thing to catch. When folks move in an out with a moving truck gotcha. But folks showing up with gymbags to stay a few nights, who knows. Could be brother or sister, etc. Do it a lot busted but once in awhile who cares.
So even if the rules aren't working perfectly, they're keeping violations to a dull roar, which is probably good enough (at least as far as the impact on the other residents is concerned).
Townships / districts/counties carry residential occupancy allowance. The condo is echoing it for the "owners" of the condo.
I personally think HOA has more regulations/ restrictions then privileges. Unless you count the fact that they do let you breathe the same air as them. How kind of them.
AirBnB in its true form where owner is home while guest is visiting is hard to stop if only done once in a while and to folks who are similar looking to owner.
My asian female co-worker single in her 30s rents around 5-10 times a year on airbnb to other single asian females and is home at the time. Hard for condo to stop it since they allow guests and roomates and she is home at the time.
You're missing the point. (And why is her ethnicity relevant here?)
If she's home, she's probably making sure the AirBnB folks are being good neighbors. But if her guests were throwing wild parties or leaving garbage in the hallways, the condo association needs the authority to say, "Look, this isn't allowed" and crack down on it. Usually these rules get written after there have been problems and complaints. And the condo association does indeed have the means of exercising its authority if it needs/wants to get involved.
I was going to write a response based on what I've encountered in Florida looking for a home but realized my posts in a related thread from several years ago probably cover most of what I would have to say here:
One thing that has changed in Florida in the last few years is that builders are building again (after low numbers of new builds during the housing crash years), but my impression is they're generally not offering (other than custom builds initiated by a homeowner) no-frills, non-HOA, smaller single-family homes, the size of, say, a modest-sized two-bedroom condo (a size of home that was built in significant numbers decades ago before condos became common).
I think the assumption is that the needs of someone who wants a place this small are already being met by condos (that people should/will just buy a condo instead of a house if they want a smaller home). But it's clear that in many ways (including, sometimes, issues to do with who the association allows to live in your condo), owning a condo is not just like owning a house, only smaller. There are both advantages and disadvantages to each form of ownership, depending on someone's needs and situation, but in some important ways they aren't at all the same.
As I've gone into more detail about on that other thread, I think reasonable restrictions are needed when people live in close proximity and with shared ownership, but the restrictions are sometimes "boilerplate" language (that is what the homeowners received from the developer, not necessarily the exact provisions they would have chosen if it were up to them to write their own documents). The intent may have been to guard against living situations that would bring down quality of life and property values, but the scope/language of some of these restrictions can also have the effect of excluding some people who would have been regarded as ideal neighbors/residents by most of the other owners in that community.
You're missing the point. (And why is her ethnicity relevant here?)
If she's home, she's probably making sure the AirBnB folks are being good neighbors. But if her guests were throwing wild parties or leaving garbage in the hallways, the condo association needs the authority to say, "Look, this isn't allowed" and crack down on it. Usually these rules get written after there have been problems and complaints. And the condo association does indeed have the means of exercising its authority if it needs/wants to get involved.
She could be white, black, orthodox etc. My neighbor who is Philippine for instance had an illegal two family in his old neighborhood where he also rented basement. He only rented to Philippinos as he claimed they were all family when town came snooping. If one tenant was black, the other white and he was Phillipnio he would get nailed.
All the rules are disclosed to you in writing before you buy. You agree to the rules or live elsewhere.
so simple..........yet so many don't grasp that concept.
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