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 the forum. A transient guest who will not leave gets a written notice and a misdemeanor, and staying on is a police matter; an occupant of residential premises must be evicted through the court. 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.