POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned hereby appoints Robert E. Kirkland IV, as the undersigned's true
and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

1.	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Sotherly Hotels Inc. (the "Company") or any
other such entity trading as "SOHO" on the NASDAQ, as applicable, the Form ID -
Uniform Application for Access Codes to file on the Securities and Exchange
Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System ("EDGAR"),
and any and all Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any other forms required to be filed in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
rules thereunder (a "Form");

2.	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form, complete
and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar authority; and

3.	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to the attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary,
or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file any Forms pursuant to Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 7th day of May, 2015.



/s/ Herschel J. Walker
Herschel J. Walker