Short Term Rentals
Short-term rentals are operating legally within Dallas neighborhoods while the matter is under legal injunction but the action approved by the City Council in June 2023 is punishing good operators and “isn’t working,” Councilman Chad West said during a Monday meeting of the Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee. Last year the CIty Council…
Once again the future of Dallas short-term rentals is clear as mud. Here’s a brief history of the timeline to date. The Dallas City Council in June 2023 banned short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods, providing a six-month deadline for operators to ensure they were in compliance or shut down. The Dallas Short Term Rental Alliance…
Members of the Dallas Short-Term Rental Alliance and the City of Dallas have been embroiled in a legal battle that was supposed to come to a head Monday in a non-jury trial, but officials involved in the matter say it has been delayed. Lisa Sievers, a spokeswoman for the Dallas STRA, told CandysDirt.com that operators…
A Dallas real estate developer is petitioning the City Plan Commission to allow two multifamily buildings he owns near Bishop Arts to continue operating as short-term rentals despite a pending legal matter that could ban such activity in residential neighborhoods. There’s another challenge, too. The builder and property owner, Christian Chernock, is the city plan…
The City of Dallas filed an appeal Dec. 26 asking a judge to reverse a temporary injunction allowing short-term rentals to operate while the matter is in litigation. We knew it would come to this. When the Dallas City Council voted 12 to 3 in June to prohibit short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods there was…
