Posted on 11/28/2022 7:20:39 AM PST by george76
My condo building also forbids short term rentals. The rationale is that it’s a security risk to have a constant influx of new strangers. The doormen won’t know who belongs.
Amazing how you all seem to be keying in the HOA and not the fact that he purchased a “second home”, that was actually nothing more than a rental property in a ski town.
A property, like all the other “second homes” that was filled with drunk skiers from Texas.
Is some of the stuff the HOA did a little excessive? Maybe. How about all of you complaining about HOAs, go find the street in some college town, known for the epic parties that are thrown in all the rentals or maybe take up residence in the area where all the fraternities are, report back and let us know how it works out.
HOA Nazis!
The first step is to find a really expensive, small place for your farm. That way you can spend $200 per night for a place to keep your potted plants.
NEVER-—NEVER—EVER-—own a home in an HOA or with CCR’s.
You will cry forever.
Plenty of places to live—2nd home or not—where you do NOT have a small group of monsters telling you how to live YOUR life.
HOAs... if you’re dumb enough to buy in one or you need the company of people daily, then you get what you get. When I retired every damn real estate agent tried to get me to buy in a housing community even though my requirements were remote and no neighbors.
I finally found a nice piece of land and built. After the house was completed even the builder said they won’t be building on anymore sites like mine, they’ll stick to community building.
I lived in Pagosa Springs forty nine years ago, a small Hispanic town with only a lumber industry to support it. We lived on the road to Chama.
The vacation housing boom had just started west of town, separate from Pagosa Springs proper. Four housing lots to the acre! Way too small for me.
Last time I was through there was in 2015. I knew it had grown large when I saw a Walmart store on the south side of the road to Durango.
Wish I was still in that area, but not Pagosa Springs West.
Isn’t downtown Pagosa Springs at the bottom of Wolf Creek Pass?
My general rule of thumb is that an HOA makes sense in any location where a fire next door can spread directly to your home. That would include multi-unit condominium buildings and townhouse developments by definition, as well as many subdivisions of detached homes where the properties are much smaller than 1/2-acre in size.
The same thought occurred to me. Spring break isn’t just for Spring anymore.
One thing the author did not mention is that most likely Colorado state laws on landlord tenant and anti discrimination in housing would likely apply and be used against property owners at some point. Want limit the rental to families? That could land you in court. Want to screen criminal history. There are limits. Want to require an application fee? Better make sure it does not exceed actual processing costs. That is not even including a possible eviction nightmare.
hahaha. you think you own your home? don’t pay your property taxes and see how quick that changes. we all basically rent from the government until they decide to evict.
Ok, so I want to pay extra for property that has an HOA and then pay monthly dues to a HOA board that tells me how I may use “my” property. I have never seen the allure of living in such a community.
No question, the most conservative or liberal people are the same when it comes to HOAs, once they get the boards the often-become tyrants with a little power and seek to gain more.
A few years ago, in the neighborhood of our primary residence, we had a batch of new younger owners move in and they all wanted to change the bylaws to “modernize” them, one Sunday a women in the young owners group knocked on our door to lobby for the changes she was advocating.
One of their new rules they wanted to implement was a fining committee to fine owners for rules violations.
I told her I was for eliminating rules because the fewer the better and was absolutely opposed to fines. It’s fun to watch young and idealistic people get hit in the face with reality.
Does your insurance handle being used as a short term rental? Are you properly permitted by the county to do so?
Just like Uber violating a lot of Taxi laws, Air BnB violates a lot of hotel laws.
No sympathy.
My guess is that it was a yearly agreement but with that said, in our HOA agreement, it specifically forbids the renting of our homes. (detached condos)
I lived in an HOA-controlled development that was formed in 1969. I lived there from 2015 through 2022.
The board was very lenient and fair in how they dealt with the homeowners on issues like tree removal, repaints, remodels, etc.
Back to basics.......
What does your contract with the HOA say on the subject?
My daughter used to work for a lady that had ‘vacation rentals’ that costed $5000 a week to rent in Destin. They come fully furnished and even have bicycles and beach floats and umbrellas to use.
She told me most renters are good, clean people that leave the units just as nice as when they arrived, but every now and then they would get a family that would leave them trashed an stuff missing, like appliances and even furniture!
They would not get their $1000 security deposit back, and usually threaten to sue, but none ever did.............
I would not want to be surrounded by AirBNB trash.
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