Residential hotel

Definition

The license class for rooms let by the month, which changes how a guest leaves.

Why It Matters

Ohio splits one word three ways and the split is the deal. A transient hotel is held out as offering rooms for thirty days or less; a residential hotel is built and certified with dwelling-unit features and held out for a minimum stay of more than thirty days. The consequence is how a stay ends. Ohio's landlord-tenant act leaves out hotels and motels where the circumstances indicate a transient occupancy. A landlord of residential premises may not shut off services or exclude a tenant to recover possession, other than as the code provides. A motel running a weekly and monthly book may therefore be operating in the second class while licensed and insured for the first, which is worth reading against the guest ledger before the extended-stay revenue is capitalized.