Rules for guests in lease

[Bienes Raices]

My lease, which I bought from a lawyer, says "a reasonable number of guests may stay for up to 72 hours without getting landlord's permission". I was wondering if that was typical of what other people are using in their leases or if there's something better I should change it to. Thanks.

[Jon K.]

Wow. One night a month? That's intense.

Do you set limits on the total number of guests too? What if they have a lot of friends (or boyfriends/girlfriends) that each stay one night but their total number of guests staying over that one night is 15 nights worth of guests?

What about tenant's who have their boyfriend/girlfriend stay the night every weekend or other weekend?

I do think it's important to set a limit on both how many consecutive nights and how many total guests per month. I think 3-5 nights of total guests is more than fair to both you and them. Otherwise you can easily end up with their boyfriends/girlfriends moving in and not paying, or them subletting as on Airnib or adding roommates, or having friends stay over every night.

I've seen leases that limit total guests to 3 nights a month, others to 5 or 7 nights a month. I've had leases that don't limit me at all. I think 5 nights is plenty.

Sometimes families have relatives over and most tenants in a single family property probably wouldn't agree to only one night per guest. Say they have their grown son and his wife visit one weekend a month--- they violated their lease.

With roommates, I set a limit of one weekend a month. Otherwise it interfered with roommates and increased our utilities, noise, and parking issues. Single family homes could probably tolerate a little more than that one weekend.