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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Renting the home is certainly a business activity. However, renting a home does not mean business is being conducted in the home. The activities being conducted in the home are eating, sleeping, cooking, and cleaning. These are the exact same activities that are conducted in my home and 70,000+ other homes in the Villages.
The people sitting on the sofa and eating at the kitchen table are not customers visiting a business, they are guests performing the normal activities conducted in a home: eating, sleeping, cooking, and cleaning.
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Wow, what a convoluted, misguided, and contradictory post. Here’s the litmus test. Would the people referenced be allowed in the home without paying rent? If the answer is no, it’s a business. Family and friends who stay with residents for free are house guests of residents. People who pay rent to stay in someone’s home, while they concurrently live there, are customers of a business. Any reasonable person looking objectively would draw the same conclusion. Justify it any way that floats your boat, it’s a business being run out of a home.