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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
There are some homeowners who have live-in aides. They're not family, they're contractors/employees. You'd need to offer exceptions. And that means you'd have to be up in someone's health business, which is against HIPAA law.
Also how would you know that someone is renting a room to someone, and isn't in a non-marriage relationship with them? Best friends who aren't life partners, or the lady down the street who lost her husband and downsized and sold her house, and is now renting a room at a neighbor's house...
Also what of friends who share a property, but aren't related, and share expenses and sleep in their own bedrooms.
The only thing you could really enforce, is if you catch the property being offered for rent on a website, or newspaper, or a sign on the window.
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Well, let’s address those situations. A live in caretaker is not a tenant paying rent. The homeowner is paying them for an essential service, totally different situation.
A non marriage relationship sharing a home is very different than a revolving door short term rental situation to complete strangers. It’s a long term living situation that should not disrupt the neighborhood.
Unrelated friends sharing a property is again not a revolving door short term rental situation. And as you described the situation, they could both be deeded owners of said property.
Another poster questioned having unrelated guests, again not a revolving door short term rental situation. Any reasonable person wouldn’t consider occasional non rent paying house guests as not being in harmony with single family residential use. I have had several guests, both family and friends, visit our home for a few days, all rent free. I take great care to insure their activities don’t disrupt my neighbors.
The issue here is not allowing revolving door short term rentals that create a situation that is not in harmony with a 55+ single family residential retirement community. Anyone advertising with the likes of AirBnB as offering one or more rooms for rent, while concurrently living in their home, is the situation that needs to be addressed. Those are the situations that will generate complaints that trigger the deed compliance system, not those you described.