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

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

I have to admit, the various prohibitions on rentals makes me sad. Home
ownership is out of reach for a lot of people for financial and other
reasons, especially younger folks. While I understand the drawbacks of
having a lot of renters in a community, I wonder if we are throwing the
diversity baby out with the bathwater.

I am sort of confused by the policies that specifically discourage long
term rentals in particular. I would think long-term whole-home renters
would be the ideal way to build a community that includes people who are
really looking to settle down and be involved in community but can't/don't
want to buy.

Diana
Mosaic Commons, Berlin, MA

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 9:39 AM David Heimann <heimann [at] theworld.com> wrote:

> 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 y Sangu verification:
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> Hello Sharon,
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> 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)
>
> --
> Sharon L. Miller
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