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.

I don’t think that guest passes should be free at all. And they should be time limited, weekly or daily. It means people who are owners and who don’t regularly have guests have to pay for the extra wear and tear on our facilities. Now, unless you are going to argue that guest are actually, like angels and float on air etc…

Tell me where people can use facilities for free, try Disney, or movies, anywhere? For a WHOLE month? Why is it okay here? The laws of economics works differently for us? I personally have guests and family visit and I am quite happy to pay for them.

Also the argument of large families, go into Publix or anywhere and see if they’ll give you more bread for the same price because you have a “large” family. If you have a lot of people you pay proportionally more.

I get guest passes so my visiting friends can get the better resident golf rates at the Championship golf courses, which are not amenities paid for by residents. That being said, I do support the floated idea of limiting free guest passes to 20 per year as a deterrent to revolving door short term rentals.

Renters shouldn’t be eligible
 

Renters aren’t eligible for guest passes. If they were there alone an uproar among most. I think the article needs to clarify this.

They are
 

I guarantee you there are landlords getting passes for their customers.

From the article… James Vaccaro said a man who operates an Airbnb told him that he has applied for hundreds of guest passes for those who stay there.

Vaccaro suggested that a $10 fee per pass might be affordable for residents who have a few guests a year, but more difficult for Airbnb operators.
“I don’t think we should be subsidizing anyone to use our facilities,” he said.

If so, it’s disheartening and dishonest
 

If so, it’s disheartening and dishonest. Just ban landlords from getting guest passes. One poster said they aren’t hardly used anyway. The problem would be solved and the solution is straight forward. No harm no foul for anyone.

If a landlord of a reasonable rental unit wants guest passes for his tenants, I have no issues with it. They already pay a fee to get them. I would recommend a limit, like 4 per month. That's enough for a monthly renter and their occasional visitors. Seems reasonable to me.

Now if you're talking about new tenants every weekend or several times a week, then I'm not in support of guest pass issuance for these folks.

How would anyone be able to differentiate between a resident getting a guest pass for a visiting friend versus another resident getting a guest pass for a tenant that is renting a room in their home short term via AIRBnB? That’s why I like the idea of limiting the number of free guest passes to something reasonable for legitimate resident guests but would be a deterrent for revolving door short term rentals.

Yes
 

That would be the easiest and generate income too. Now there are big families out there. In that case a person can make a simple exemption request. I know the rec centers put all the guest pass info in the computer, so it wouldn’t be hard to see who was abusing the system.

The rec enters have put ZERO of my guest pass info into the computer.

Er, that's how those guest passes are generated. They're put in the system, and the names of the guests and their home addresses and birthdates are saved. That way if they return to visit again, you can just go to the rec center, tell them John Doe and his wife Susie are coming back, and they look it up and print you out the passes. I've done that twice for my cousins who visit for 2-3 days, a few times a year.

Was it the rec center flagpole that entered the information or was it the automatic door, the pool table, the card room, or one of the employees?

In my case it wass me, my ten little fingers, typing on my keyboard while sitting in my home that put in the information.

Does it exist in a database? Sure. Did the rec center put it there? Not for my passes.

Semantics...

Yes, you can register your own guests on-line, but the very same info is entered whether you do that or if you show up in person to get a guest pass...

Not semantics at all. The assertion was that because the rec center employees always entered the data they would be able to see who was “abusing” the system. I doubt it would be that simple but since the rec center employees DO NOT always enter the information they would not be able to identify “abusers.”

If I sit at home and enter the information then have my guests pick up their own passes the rec center employees don’t see a familiar face come in every third day. They might notice a lot of passes under my name but I can always vary the pickup points to avoid that.

I don’t care how they enter the data, but guest passes should not be free and they should be time limited daily or weekly. If the guest doesn’t use it, they shouldn’t get one in the first place. I don’t buy a ticket to the movies IF I’m not going to go.

Where can you use their facilities for free for a whole month? This idea was introduced (most likely) as a way of advertising TV when it wasn’t well known. We no longer need this form of advertising. We can go to normal behavior like other venues.