Renting a room in my home, how many nights is it ok for renter to have overnight guests

Question

Renting a room in my home, how many nights is it ok for renter to have overnight guests

Answer 1

You need to put something like that into the rental agreement. Either every night or not at all. I doubt someone would agree to only have someone over tuesday, friday and sunday nights. I sure wouldnt. If its not in the agreement, they can do whatever they want.

Answer 2

Only as many as you allow. Hopefully you have a written agreement and it should state something about overnight guest. If you don't I'd draw one up now. Your renter can either or find another place to rent. When it's just a room in your home, that means the guest is using extra utilities such as water to shower making it more expensive for your tenant to live there.

Answer 3

That's a matter for negotiation between you and your tenant.  It's your right to even say none.

Answer 4

Doesn't seem fair.  You rent to one person and soon there is a 2nd person.   Next time, use a written lease and write the limit in bold letters./

Answer 5

Put it in the lease. I would say no more than 4 nights a month and the visitor cannot receive phone calls or leave personal items around. You want to prevent them "establishing residency."

Answer 6

Here is your challenge, as I am a landlord as well.

Lots of landlord's put these "no overnight guests"  or "limiting the number of nights" clauses in their leases, but the problem is, it's not a legally enforceable part of the lease, because that's dictating lifestyle, and the courts won't get into that nor enforce it.  

You can legally enforce other restrictions, such as how many cars are parked near the home, etc, set up an arrangement with a towing company.  You can also get a restraining order against guests of tenants that cause domestic disturbances, etc.

However, towing must be done in writing in advance, you can't just start towing, etc.

Sure, people are going to post that they are landlords and have that in the clause or they have signed leases like that, but no court is going to give you an eviction based on that or will come up with a number of days. All it is, is a deterrent.

In 15 years, never ONCE saw a landlord successfully evict in court based on those grounds.

PS:  If this person is renting a room, then you CAN have those restrictions.