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Originally Posted by Normal
I prefer continuity myself. If a neighbor is doing something wrong we can confer and discuss long term solutions for both of us. Brevity in a neighborhood just means “Who cares, I won’t see you for the rest of my life. I’m on vacation.”
Besides, why should landlords benefit from the rest of us? While we all keep a tight ship and landscape etc, an STR tenant may not.
There is a solution, just require landlords to stay at the residence when they are renting their unit out. Make licensing expensive so not everyone will take the leap to decide they want to run a hotel next to all their neighbors.
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Here’s an idea - mind your own business and stop trying to take away my property rights.
STRs are bad, but what is a STR?
Short Term Rental? Okay but what is “short term?”
Is one year enough for continuity? One season? Is one month enough? Maybe one week? Who decides who gets to decide?
I talk to two of my neighbors semi-annually, see another maybe monthly (we don’t talk, we just pass by and wave), and wouldn’t recognize the other four. I believe two are renters but really don’t know. I laugh at Gladys Kravitz, I don’t try to emulate her, perhaps more should do the same.
And yes, residents can be annoying. The one in my neighborhood has been here longer than me - I wish they were more short-term than that. We already have rules and laws and enforcement agencies to deal with problems. Perhaps we should use the tools that already exist before we demand new ones.