Re: policies for renting units | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sue STIGLEMAN (sstiglemanbellsouth.net) | |
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:12:45 -0700 (PDT) |
I don't have an answer to your specific question (we don't have restrictions on rentals.) I do have a question of my own: are rentals in this context rentals of an entire unit, so that it is no longer owner-occupied? We have tension in our community over a variety of things that get called "rentals" -- renting an entire unit, having an unrelated housemate, renting out a basement (with or without a separate entrance, renting individual rooms, doing Airbnb for either individual rooms or a fully equipped basement apartment, and I may have missed a situation or two. My view is that that is mixing not just apples and oranges but also a few baseballs and a box of malted balls. But that's me. <wry grin> Thanks! --sue Sue Stigleman sstigleman [at] bellsouth.net 828-989-9373 From: Kathy Tymoczko <kathy.tymoczko [at] gmail.com> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 5:09 PM Subject: [C-L]_ policies for renting units Our bylaws restrict the number of units in our 30-unit cohousing community that can be rented. Our "rental request procedure" is the following: - The current allowable maximum for non-owner occupied units is 37% (11 units). This maximum is specified in our By-Laws. - If a unit owner wishes to rent their unit, the unit owner must make a written request to the HOA Officers to be allowed to rent their unit. Email is permissible. - Within 30 days, the HOA Officers will respond with consent or denial (depending upon how many currently rented units there are). - If a unit owner's request to rent is denied due to the 37% cap, the request will be placed on a wait list until another non-owner occupied slot opens up. - If an owner receives consent to rent out their unit, that owner must secure a renter and forward a signed copy of the lease agreement to the HOA Officers no later than 60 days after receiving the notice of consent to rent. - The new tenant must begin occupancy no later than 60 days after the lease agreement is received by the HOA Officers (which would be no later than 120 days after unit owner received original consent to rent). - If the owner does not meet these deadlines, the owner's consent to rent their unit is lost and the owner must begin the process again. Although it isn't spelled out in the above, if a tenant moves out, we have assumed the owner can continue to rent to a new tenant without reapplying to rent. What also isn't spelled out in the above is what happens if an owner who had been renting their unit decides to sell, has the unit on the market for several months, and then decides to take it off the market and rent again. We've realized that these could be problematic omissions, especially if, in the case of an owner deciding to sell and then changing their mind, there had been a waiting list to rent, and we were at the maximum for rented units. How long does an owner with permission to rent have between the expiration of a lease and the signing of a new lease with a new tenant before the "permission" expires? If an owner decides to sell and then reconsiders, do they have to request permission to rent again? What amount of elapsed time would require an owner to request permission to rent again? We're wondering what kinds of policies other communities have and how you handle the above situations. -- Kathy Tymoczko Daybreak Cohousing <http://www.daybreakcohousing.org> Portland, Oregon 765-307-1083 _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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policies for renting units Kathy Tymoczko, September 8 2016
- Re: policies for renting units Sue STIGLEMAN, September 8 2016
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Re: policies for renting units Sharon Villines, September 9 2016
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Re: policies for renting units Ann Zabaldo, September 12 2016
- Re: policies for renting units Sharon Villines, September 12 2016
- Re: policies for renting units Ann Zabaldo, September 12 2016
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Re: policies for renting units Ann Zabaldo, September 12 2016
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