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Can I rent out my house, or list it on Airbnb?
You can lease your primary residence, but only for a lease term of no less than six months. The lease has to be in writing and has to cover the entire residence. Give your tenant copies of the Documents, and tell the Association within ten days after the lease takes effect.
The Declaration bars using a home as a hotel, a bed and breakfast lodge, or “any similar purpose”. It does not mention Airbnb or VRBO by name. What it sets instead is the six-month minimum.
That is a summary in plain words. The passages below are what the documents actually say, and they are the authority.
What the documents say
No portion of the Development Area may be used as an apartment house, flat, lodging house, hotel, bed and breakfast lodge, or any similar purpose, but the primary residence constructed on a Lot may be leased for residential purposes for a lease term of no less than six (6) months.
Development Area Declaration, §2.2Read page 6 in the documentscan
All leases will be in writing. The Owner must provide to its lessee copies of the Documents. Notice of any lease, together with such additional information as may be required by the Board, must be remitted to the Association by the Owner on or before the expiration of ten (10) days after the effective date of the lease. All leases must be for the entire residence.
Development Area Declaration, §2.2Read page 6 in the documentscan
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This guide was written from the copies in this archive. Documents can be amended after they are recorded, and this is not legal advice; the recorded instruments at the Comal County Clerk are the authoritative versions.