In 2012 a man bought a single-family house in Timberwood Park, a subdivision north of San Antonio. Two years later his employer transferred him to Houston. He kept the house and advertised it for rent on VRBO.
Between June and October of 2014 he signed thirty-one short-term rental agreements, one to seven days each, and the house was occupied 102 days, the Texas Supreme Court’s opinion says.
Two letters and a fine that ran by the day
In July and again in September 2014, the Timberwood Park Owners Association notified him that renting the house violated two deed restrictions from a plat recorded in Bexar County in 1979.
One said “All tracts shall be used solely for residential purposes,” except tracts designated for business. The other said no building “other than a single family residence containing not less than 1,750 square feet” could be erected on a residential tract…