Be Careful With Your Bylaw Restrictions

Architectural Control, Enforcing Bylaws & Rules, Michigan Condo & HOA Law

We recently wrote about some homeowners who plainly violated the restrictive covenants in their association’s governing documents when they painted their home blue without submitting an application for approval. Another case involving a blue house from Nebraska recently caught our attention, Estates at Prairie Ridge Homeowners Association v. Korth, 904 N.W.2d 15 (Neb. 2017). However,…

Commercial Use Prohibitions Mean No Short-Term Renting

Articles, Condominium Documents, Enforcing Bylaws & Rules, Michigan Condo & HOA Law, Renting

The Michigan Court of Appeals has published a 2-1 split decision, Eager v. Peasley, Mich App N.W.2d, 2017 WL 5907310, confirming that short-term rentals (generally understood to be for a term less than one month) constitute violations of “commercial use” prohibitions in deed restrictions. Previously, there were unpublished decisions to this effect, but a published…