{"id":419,"date":"2018-03-28T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=419"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:48","slug":"courts-debate-whether-short-term-rentals-like-airnbnb-violate-restrictive-covenants-limiting-property-to-residential-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/03\/28\/courts-debate-whether-short-term-rentals-like-airnbnb-violate-restrictive-covenants-limiting-property-to-residential-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts debate whether short term rentals (like Airnbnb) violate restrictive covenants limiting property to \u201cresidential uses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some courts hold that short term rentals (such as Airbnb rentals) violate covenants that restrict the property to \u201cresidential use,\u201d finding short-terms rentals to be closer to hotel use and thus commercial in nature.&nbsp;<a 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\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vonderhaar v. Lakeside Place Homeowners Ass\u2019n<\/a>, 2014 WL 3887913 (Ky. Ct. App. 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other courts find short term rentals to be compatible with \u201cresidential use\u201d and not a violation of such restrictive covenants at all.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/868701.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Wilkinson v. Chiwawa Communities Ass\u2019n,<\/a>\u00a0327 P.3d 614 (Wash. 2014);\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/fl-district-court-of-appeal\/1858562.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica Beach Property Owners Ass\u2019n v. Acord,<\/a>\u00a0219 So.3d 111 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)<\/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\/real-estate-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag\">Real Estate Transactions<\/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>Some courts hold that short term rentals (such as Airbnb rentals) violate covenants that restrict the property to \u201cresidential use,\u201d finding short-terms rentals to be closer to hotel use and thus commercial in nature.&nbsp;Vonderhaar v. Lakeside Place Homeowners Ass\u2019n, 2014 WL 3887913 (Ky. Ct. App. 2014) Other courts find short term rentals to be compatible with \u201cresidential use\u201d and not a violation of such restrictive covenants at all.\u00a0Wilkinson v. Chiwawa Communities Ass\u2019n,\u00a0327 P.3d 614 (Wash. 2014);\u00a0Santa Monica Beach Property Owners Ass\u2019n v. Acord,\u00a0219 So.3d 111 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)<\/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":[28,10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condominiums-and-homeowners-associations","category-real-estate-transactions","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\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}