We see continued disagreement among the states on the question of whether short-term rentals violate residential use restrictions in covenants or zoning law. Some courts say that short-term rentals are consistent with residential or single-family use restrictions. See, e.g., Pandharipande v. FSD Corp., 679 S.W.3d 610 (Tenn. 2023); Lake Serene Prop. Owners Ass\u2019n Inc. v. Esplin, 334 So.3d 1139 (Miss. 2022); Wilson v. Maynard, 961 N.W.2d 596, 2021 SD 37 (S.D. 2021). But other courts deem short-term rentals to be a trade or business and presumptively not a residential use. See, e.g., Morgan v. Townsend, 302 A.3d 30, 2023 ME 62 (Me. 2023). See also Dixon v. City of Auburn, 2023 WL 7096600 (Ala. 2023) (short-term rentals are inconsistent with zoning limitation to single-family detached dwelling units\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We see continued disagreement among the states on the question of whether short-term rentals violate residential use restrictions in covenants or zoning law. Some courts say that short-term rentals are consistent with residential or single-family use restrictions. See, e.g., Pandharipande v. FSD Corp., 679 S.W.3d 610 (Tenn. 2023); Lake Serene Prop. Owners Ass\u2019n Inc. v. Esplin, 334 So.3d 1139 (Miss. 2022); Wilson v. Maynard, 961 N.W.2d 596, 2021 SD 37 (S.D. 2021). But other courts deem short-term rentals to be a trade or business and presumptively not a residential use. See, e.g., Morgan v. Townsend, 302 A.3d 30, 2023 ME 62 (Me. 2023). See also Dixon v. City of Auburn, 2023 WL 7096600 (Ala. 2023) (short-term rentals are inconsistent with zoning limitation to single-family detached dwelling units\u201d).<\/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":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servitudes","category-zoning"],"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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}