{"id":131,"date":"2022-05-21T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=131"},"modified":"2024-01-04T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:34:21","slug":"covenants-that-prohibit-all-leasing-restrictions-include-short-term-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2022\/05\/21\/covenants-that-prohibit-all-leasing-restrictions-include-short-term-rentals\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenants that prohibit all leasing restrictions include short-term rentals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Texas Supreme Court has held that covenants that prohibit all restrictions on leasing cannot prohibit short term rentals, finding that a lease is still a lease if it only lasts for one day.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1454066\/200857.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">&nbsp;JBrice Holdings, LLC v. Wilcrest Walk Townhomes Ass\u2019n, Inc<\/a>., 2022 WL 1194364 (Tex. 2022). In addition, short-term rentals were held not to be \u201ccommercial\u201d or \u201cnon-residential uses.\u201d The court noted that the covenants provided that they could be retroactively amended through a 75% vote of the owners.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/servitudes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Servitudes<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court has held that covenants that prohibit all restrictions on leasing cannot prohibit short term rentals, finding that a lease is still a lease if it only lasts for one day.&nbsp;JBrice Holdings, LLC v. Wilcrest Walk Townhomes Ass\u2019n, Inc., 2022 WL 1194364 (Tex. 2022). In addition, short-term rentals were held not to be \u201ccommercial\u201d or \u201cnon-residential uses.\u201d The court noted that the covenants provided that they could be retroactively amended through a 75% vote of the owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaseholds","category-servitudes"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}