Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: limits on rentals and absentee landlords?

[David Heimann (heimann]

Hello Sharon,

	We have a policy that no more than 30% of our units (i.e., 9 
units out of our 30) can be rented out at any one time.  Also, an owner 
cannot carry out an absentee rental of more than one year, whether to a 
single tenant or a series of tenants, without approval from the 
Association for each year beyond the first.

	Currently we have one unit rented out by an owner who is living 
in the immediate area, a situation that has been in effect for more than 
a year now.  We also have the mother of a unit owner who has moved into 
a different unit, though I'm not sure whether the current unit owners 
bought the second unit and have rented it to her or whether she owns the 
unit herself.  Either way we have only one or two units rented out and 
no absentee landlords.

	A while back a unit owner decided to move to a nearby town so 
her daughter could attend high school there, and rented out her unit 
here, creating an absentee landlord situation.  She got an approval to 
rent it out for a second year, but after that we decided that she had to 
either move back or sell the unit -- she chose the latter.

        In any event we are nowhere close to our rental limit.

Regards,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing
Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA


Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:53:31 -0700
From: Sharon Miller <slmiller.325 [at] gmail.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ limits on rentals and absentee landlords?
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Do any of your communities have limits on the % of units/homes that may be
rentals? Or have limits on how many years an absentee landlord may rent a
home he/she lived in at one point?

Thank you!
Sharon Miller
(For Sharingwood Co-Housing, Snohomish, WA)

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Sharon L. Miller