Hmm, can you give some locations? At least in CA, I saw limits on max number of adults, but never any specification of the relationships of the adults. That was a pretty liberal area though.

It was mostly to stop the ‘10 adults to a house’ type situations that overwhelms street parking, sewage systems, etc. when everyone is doing it.

This is in MA. Several townships still have laws on the books about occupant relations and limits, and all but one condo complex I’ve looked at units in had language in their covenants about occupant relations. Realtors countered that these sections aren’t actively enforced anymore, or that the Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling saying they’re null and void, and that was sometimes (but not always) true. Even so, their existence alone creates the potential for lawfare that a new homeowner just cannot afford, and so we had to pass on them due to that risk assessment.

That’s what I’d like more people to understand: even if those rules or laws aren’t enforced now, doesn’t mean they can’t be enforced later when the regime changes its priorities.