Good Neighbors Make Great Stays
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The Heart of Julian is a place to gather, reconnect, and enjoy time together. It is also a private home located within a quiet residential mountain community, where our neighbors live, work, and enjoy the peaceful surroundings that make Julian so special.
We want our Guests to enjoy the Property—including the patio, gazebo, fire pit, and outdoor spaces—while being mindful that voices, music, vehicles, and other sounds can carry farther than expected in the mountain environment.
This page provides important information about parking, quiet hours, outdoor activity, noise monitoring, gatherings and visitors, and respect for neighboring properties. These guidelines are designed to help everyone enjoy their time at THOJ while preserving the character and tranquility of the surrounding neighborhood.
Please take a few moments to review the information below and share these guidelines with everyone in your party. A little consideration goes a long way toward ensuring that Guests and neighbors alike can enjoy what makes Julian such a wonderful place to visit.
WELCOME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
One of the things that makes The Heart of Julian special is its location. THOJ is tucked into a quiet residential mountain community while still being just a short distance from the charm, restaurants, shops, and experiences of historic Julian.
Our Guests come here to relax, reconnect, celebrate, and spend time together—and we want you to enjoy the home and its outdoor spaces. At the same time, the homes surrounding THOJ belong to people who live here and value the same peaceful mountain setting that our Guests come to enjoy.
a. A Home Within a Community.
THOJ is a private home located within an established residential neighborhood. During your stay, we ask that you enjoy the Property as you would want Guests to enjoy a home within your own neighborhood—with consideration for the people and properties around you.
b. Enjoy the Outdoors.
The patio, gazebo, fire pit, outdoor dining areas, and other exterior spaces are part of the THOJ experience. Guests are welcome to gather, talk, dine, and enjoy time together outdoors while remaining mindful of surrounding homes.
c. Sound Travels Differently in the Mountains.
Julian's quiet surroundings mean that voices, laughter, music, and other sounds can carry farther than you might expect, particularly during the evening and nighttime hours. What may seem like an ordinary conversation nearby can sometimes be heard much farther away.
d. Arrive and Depart Considerately.
Please be mindful of neighboring homes when arriving, departing, parking, loading or unloading vehicles, and returning to the Property later in the evening.
e. Respect the Space Around Us.
Neighboring yards, driveways, parking areas, and other private property are not part of THOJ. Guests and visitors should remain within the Property boundaries and use only designated or permitted parking areas.
f. Good Neighbors Make Great Stays.
These guidelines are not intended to take away from your experience. They help make it possible for THOJ to remain a place where Guests can gather, celebrate, relax, and create memories while respecting the community around us.
Thank you for helping us be good neighbors—and for treating Julian with the same care and consideration that makes it such a wonderful place to visit.
COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULES & COMMUNITY STANDARDS
The Guest and all members of the Guest's party are required to comply with the terms of this Agreement, the Property's House Rules, applicable laws and ordinances, and reasonable instructions provided by the Owner/Property Manager.
The Heart of Julian is located within a quiet residential mountain community. Guests are expected to respect neighboring properties and the peaceful enjoyment of the surrounding community. Prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, excessive or disruptive noise, exceeding permitted occupancy, unauthorized parties or gatherings, illegal activity, improper parking, trespassing onto neighboring property, disruptive outdoor activity, and other conduct that unreasonably disturbs neighboring residents.
Quiet Hours, Noise Monitoring & Outdoor Activity:
Quiet hours at The Heart of Julian are from 10:00 PM to 8:00 AM. Guests must comply with the County of San Diego Noise Ordinance, including applicable sound-level limitations under San Diego County Code §36.404, as well as the Property's quiet-hour and community-conduct requirements.
The Heart of Julian is located in a particularly quiet mountain residential community where voices, music, and other sounds may carry considerable distances. Guests are expected to be mindful of outdoor noise at all times, particularly during evening and nighttime hours.
The Property is equipped with exterior noise-monitoring devices. A visible decibel display is located in the backyard to provide Guests with real-time awareness of outdoor sound levels and assist them in maintaining appropriate noise levels. Additional monitoring devices may be located at or near Property boundaries. These devices monitor sound levels only and do not record conversations or audio.
During quiet hours, outdoor conversations, music, televisions, and social activity must remain within the posted Property noise limits and must not disturb neighboring properties.
If Guests are unable to reasonably maintain their outdoor activity within the posted noise limits, the gathering must be moved inside the home. Guests are welcome to continue enjoying themselves indoors, provided noise is reasonably contained within the home and does not create a disturbance outside the Property. Doors and windows should be kept closed when reasonably necessary to contain noise.
Amplified outdoor music, DJs, bands, or other prohibited amplified entertainment are not permitted.
The visible decibel display is intended to give Guests an opportunity to recognize and correct elevated noise levels before they result in a neighborhood disturbance. Guests remain responsible for complying with applicable County noise requirements and the requirements of this Agreement regardless of the readings displayed by the monitoring device.
Parking & Neighborhood Conduct:
Guests must comply with the parking instructions provided for the Property and may not block neighboring driveways, roadways, access points, mailboxes, or otherwise interfere with neighboring properties.
Guests and visitors may not congregate, loiter, or engage in disruptive activity in the street or immediately surrounding neighborhood. Guests may not enter or use neighboring private property without authorization.
Responsibility of Primary Guest:
The primary Guest is responsible for ensuring that all members of the Guest's party and any permitted visitors comply with this Agreement and the Property's House Rules.
Conduct by a member of the Guest's party or a permitted visitor will be treated as conduct of the Guest for purposes of this Agreement.
Neighborhood Complaints, Government Enforcement & Booking Platforms:
Guests acknowledge that excessive noise, unauthorized gatherings, improper parking, trespassing, disruptive outdoor activity, or other violations of this Agreement may result in complaints or enforcement action by neighbors, law enforcement, the County of San Diego, governmental agencies, community organizations, or third-party booking platforms and marketplaces through which the Property is advertised, including Airbnb. Booking.com and Vrbo.
A complaint or report by itself does not automatically establish a violation or result in a charge to the Guest. However, when a complaint is reasonably substantiated and determined to have resulted from conduct by the Guest, members of the Guest's party, or permitted visitors in violation of this Agreement, a Community Disturbance Fee of $250 per substantiated incident may be assessed.
For purposes of this provision, substantiation may include, as applicable, noise-monitoring records, photographs or video, communications with the Guest, law-enforcement or County records, written complaints, booking-platform communications, or other reasonably reliable documentation of the violation.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and the terms of the applicable payment platform and payment processor, the Guest authorizes the Owner/Property Manager to charge the Community Disturbance Fee to the payment method associated with the reservation.
The Community Disturbance Fee does not replace the Guest's responsibility for actual fines, citations, assessments, enforcement charges, or other documented costs resulting from the violation. If a violation attributable to the Guest results in such charges being imposed upon or incurred by the Owner/Property Manager, the Guest may also be responsible for those amounts to the extent permitted by applicable law.
If a documented violation attributable to the Guest results in a warning, restriction, suspension, delisting, cancellation of reservations, or other enforcement action affecting The Heart of Julian on Airbnb, Vrbo, another booking platform or marketplace, or by a governmental authority, the Owner/Property Manager reserves the right to seek recovery of reasonable and documented losses directly resulting from the violation, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Payment of the Community Disturbance Fee or any related charge and does not prevent the Owner/Property Manager from requiring the conduct to cease or, in the case of a material or repeated violation, terminating the Guest's right to occupy the Property to the extent permitted by applicable law.