How many guest passes should an HOA allow per home?

Quick answer. There's no single legal number — the right cap depends on your community's parking supply and how it's abused, but a common, defensible baseline is 1-3 active guest passes per home at a time, plus a monthly total cap (for example, 10-20 pass-days per unit) and an overnight limit. Communities with plenty of visitor parking can be more generous; communities fighting short-term-rental turnover need tighter caps with a manager-approval path for legitimate exceptions. Whatever number you choose, put it in the CC&Rs or validly adopted rules, apply it uniformly to every home, and provide a way to request more for weddings, holidays, or contractors.

A sensible baseline

There is no single legal number; the right cap depends on your community's parking supply and how it is abused. A common, defensible baseline is 1-3 active guest passes per home at a time, plus a monthly total cap (for example, 10-20 pass-days per unit) and an overnight limit. Communities with plenty of visitor parking can be more generous, while communities fighting short-term-rental turnover need tighter caps with a manager-approval path for legitimate exceptions.

Exceptions, fairness, and stopping abuse

Whatever number you choose, put it in the CC&Rs or validly adopted rules, apply it uniformly to every home, and provide a way to request more for weddings, holidays, contractors, or caregivers. Per-unit caps combined with plate-bound passes are the practical cure for the pattern where one unit cycles an endless stream of paying short-term-rental guests, because a capped, plate-bound pass cannot simply be handed to the next car.