u/New-Ad162

Looking for advice on a home I am trying to purchase in a beach community. The unit is a townhouse in a two unit HOA. The second owner is 84 and lives with his son in the second unit full time. The seller has rented the proper the past 6 years as a short term rental of 7 days minimum at a time. The owner of Unit B (I am purchasing Unit A), never had the condo docs from 2000 amended allowing short term rentals. The original docs state that rentals under 3 months should be allowed. The owner of Unit B is refusing to amend the documents. Is there any way to force this, the by laws do state that an arbitration should occur if the vote is not majority. The sellers are pissed, I’m pissed. The Unit B owners are in violation of a number of rules in the condo documents including having multiple pets and their crap is all over the place/ Unit As designated property lines. I don’t feel comfortable buying the property without having in writing that short term rentals are allowed. The Unit B owner has said he’ll do a “hand shake agreement” that I can rent the property for 7 day rentals but if there are “two strikes” no more rentals. This is my dream property. HELP!