{"id":382,"date":"2018-10-13T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=382"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","slug":"airbnb-use-held-to-be-consistent-with-covenant-restricting-property-to-residential-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/10\/13\/airbnb-use-held-to-be-consistent-with-covenant-restricting-property-to-residential-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb use held to be consistent with covenant restricting property to residential use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Courts have divided on the question of whether short-term rentals violate restrictive covenants limiting land to residential purposes. The Texas Supreme Court just joined the majority that hold that use of property for Airbnb and similar short term rentals is residential use consistent with the covenant.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/tx-supreme-court\/1896622.html\">Tarr v. Timberwood Park Owners Ass&#8217;n<\/a>, 2018 Tex. LEXIS 442 (Tex 2018). But see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/162.114.92.72\/COA\/2012-CA-002193.pdf#xml=http:\/\/162.114.92.72\/dtSearch\/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&amp;u=27b7770b&amp;DocId=31907&amp;Index=D%3a%5cContent%5cop%2ekycourts%2enet%5cIndex%5cBoth%5fCourts&amp;HitCount=3&amp;hits=19+1b+47+&amp;SearchForm=%2fdtsearch%5fform%2ehtml&amp;.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vonderhaar v. Lakeside Place Homeowners Ass\u2019n<\/a>, 2014 WL 3887913 (Ky. Ct. App. 2014) (finding short-terms rentals to be closer to hotel use and thus commercial in nature).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/condominiums-and-homeowners-associations\/\" rel=\"tag\">Condominiums and Homeowners Associations<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/consumer-protection\/\" rel=\"tag\">Consumer Protection<\/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>Courts have divided on the question of whether short-term rentals violate restrictive covenants limiting land to residential purposes. The Texas Supreme Court just joined the majority that hold that use of property for Airbnb and similar short term rentals is residential use consistent with the covenant.\u00a0Tarr v. Timberwood Park Owners Ass&#8217;n, 2018 Tex. LEXIS 442 (Tex 2018). But see\u00a0Vonderhaar v. Lakeside Place Homeowners Ass\u2019n, 2014 WL 3887913 (Ky. Ct. App. 2014) (finding short-terms rentals to be closer to hotel use and thus commercial in nature).<\/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":[28,9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condominiums-and-homeowners-associations","category-consumer-protection","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\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}