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abzollo

Junior Member
What is the name of your state?Douglas County, Washington

Would weekly & daily rentals of houses in a non-commericial zoned Home Owners Association community constitute running a business when our Covenants state lots are for residencial purposes?
Our homes are in a residential zoned area yet certain homeowners are using their houses for weekly and daily vacation rental business , advertising them on a web site and profitting from it without sharing it with the association. Is this legal? What can the Board & association do to stop this activity?

Some of these rental homes are renting to 4 to 5 families with an average of 4 people per family. Would the Health Department care if this is happening especially when these houses' septic systems were not built for this capacity usage?
 


HomeGuru

Senior Member
abzollo said:
What is the name of your state?Douglas County, Washington

Would weekly & daily rentals of houses in a non-commericial zoned Home Owners Association community constitute running a business when our Covenants state lots are for residencial purposes?
Our homes are in a residential zoned area yet certain homeowners are using their houses for weekly and daily vacation rental business , advertising them on a web site and profitting from it without sharing it with the association. Is this legal? What can the Board & association do to stop this activity?

**A: in my opinion, such activities would consitute business activity.
The HOA needs to hire legal counsel to enforce.
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Some of these rental homes are renting to 4 to 5 families with an average of 4 people per family. Would the Health Department care if this is happening especially when these houses' septic systems were not built for this capacity usage?
**A: file a complaint with the department of health, AND zoning, building and housing offices.
 

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