This article is all wet. We are hosts and travelers. Air bnb does not stand for bait & switch or shady rentals. Those are the facts.

Sorry but not true, the real fact is that there are good hosts and travelers and bad ones. Your experience has been with the good ones, but trust me, the bad ones exist also. If you want proof, PM me with your phone number and I will call you next time our neighbor has some bad travelers staying at their house and you can stop by and see for yourself.

I agree with you 100%..this is my community not a getaway destination. If people want to rent rooms by the night go to Disney World. No one is happy with transients coming and going all the time.

:agree:

Since it is now very clear that its against community standards for a resident to rent rooms in a residence that they occupy, should be very easy for , community standards to go thru adds for Airbnb, and find out who is in violation, just look ad any add that says "private room"

True but I don’t think Community Standards is in the business of investigating. As mentioned, the neighbors are the “policemen.”

OAN I can’t help but wonder how homeowners insurance companies react when they find out my home is being rented out on a daily basis. The homeowner would need to notify the insurance company to protect themselves from liability.

Apparently, there are 114 private rooms available for rent in The Villages on airbnb next week.

Wow! That is a lot.

Gotta be very gutsy or desperate for $$, to have a total stranger sharing your house for $$--big risk--easiest home invasion ever--1 person makes a reservation--& a buddy comes to your house--the person who made the reservation , says he didn't feel like going to TV

The Villages Hometown Getaway - Houses for Rent in The Villages, Florida, United States
Here is one example

Thanks for the link, very interesting as one rents a room in the home with the owners. This a bed and breakfast Abnb!!!!

I would have to be seriously hard up for cash to do this, take the risk, do the work and put up with the lack of privacy for $70 a night.

They are offering the inducement of access to the amenities...Now that probably infringes upon use of the amenities by legitimate residents by increasing the number of people using them. Too, other residents are financially supplementing this business through their amenity fees.

I wonder if they are paying all of the various taxes due on this business endeavor, if their insurance company knows they are housing business invitees in their home. Also home owner mortgages typically require owner occupancy. If one rents the mortgage rates are higher so the lender might want to know about this if there is a mortgage on the premises.

It seems like the crux of many of the complaints is not Airbnb itself but short term rentals in general. Which is old news here.

Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like that would effectively prohibit people from having roommates, too.

Old news and something that will never be stopped.
Not all airbnb renters stay in the home with the renters.
Homes, rooms, and golf carts will ALWAYS be rented out here by homeowners. Nothing anybody on the board can do about it, but it won't stop 8+ pages of griping and worrying in a couple of threads a year.

The Villages Hometown Property Management Short Term Rentals
 

Is The Villages Hometown Property Management owned by the developer? Check-in for these rentals is at The Villages sales office in Lake Sumter Landing if that is any indication of ownership. What looks like the official Villages logo appears on the website.

The home page features "Patio Villas starting at $400/week" "Courtyards and Cottages (Ranch) starting at $500/week." "Vacation like a millionaire."

Just for curiosity, I went on the HPM web site, typed in furnished rentals for 11/1/2018 to 11/8/2018, and 82 rentals are listed as available located all over The Villages.

So if HPM is owned by the developer, then the developer is also profiting from the short term rental market in The Villages. That is probably not new news to most of you.