If we were renting our house, which we are not, I would give a full refund to anyone who booked before March 2020 since the renter had no knowledge of the pandemic. I think that is just the right thing to do regardless of what the rental contract says. However, if they booked after March of 2020, they knew the risk they were taking and should have to live with the consequences. Just my two cents for what's it worth. We rented a house for a week in Maine last January and were supposed to stay there a couple of weeks ago but had to cancel because the governor of Maine required us to quarantine for two weeks when entering the state. The landlord we rented from gladly returned our full deposit, because it was the right thing to do. We hope to be able to rent the house next summer assuming this dam pandemic is past us by then, but I am not holding my breath.
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