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

[Sharon Miller (slmiller.325]

To clarify about Sharingwood, we have a number of small apartments added to 
people’s homes that are rentals. This has given the opportunity for people like 
myself, who are unable to buy a home, to live in community. The problem we’ve 
had has been home rentals where the owner has been absent from the community 
for sometime, has not kept up the house, and has not cared about whether the 
renters are interested in being a part of the community. This has resulted in 
two homes occupied by nonparticipating families. 

Sharon 

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> On Jun 30, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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,
>> 
>> 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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