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Old 09-11-2025, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by VAtoFLA View Post
This is less about the actual cost of guests and more about appearing to "fight the landlord" and the legend of the AirBNB nightmare. I don't know the stats, maybe someone here does, but of all guest passes issued, how many are every actually used (scanned)? I've had about 10 passes in the last year and I think one of the guests used one putting course once.

The notion of the bad guys using our amenities and driving up the costs is more about keeping them for ourselves and less about real cost increase. The friendliest community really just doesn't want to share because they resent the monthly fee they signed up for.

None of it impacts me too much.
Of the 220 person-days my guests had passes I would say they used a pool for six of them. 214 days they just carried the passes in their pocket.
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