The town is highly desirable waterfront community, the region has a bit of a jobs problem, and the town was in a funk, visitors were down, local businesses were struggling, all the towns talented young people move off to larger cities, to places that are fun.
Now this place is fun too, we have a nano-brewery opening up, hipster restaurants, new boat tours...
The town planner loves AirBnB because it lets the town use some slack housing supply like guest cottages and in-law suites to host visitors in the downtown area, where it would be impossible to build a new hotel.
And short term rentals bring in a different kind of visitor than the hotels ever did. People come and stay for a week with their family.
It's all really nice actually.
And a large majority of AirBnB hosts are women. AirBnB is empowering a lot of women to become micro real estate entrepreneurs and earn money.
When people support blanket bans, they are cutting off income and opportunity for people, mostly women.
Punish bad guests, have the police fine them. Towns make money off speeding and parking tickets, I see no reason they can't make money off the occasional guest violating a noise ordinance.
Now this place is fun too, we have a nano-brewery opening up, hipster restaurants, new boat tours...
The town planner loves AirBnB because it lets the town use some slack housing supply like guest cottages and in-law suites to host visitors in the downtown area, where it would be impossible to build a new hotel.
And short term rentals bring in a different kind of visitor than the hotels ever did. People come and stay for a week with their family.
It's all really nice actually.
And a large majority of AirBnB hosts are women. AirBnB is empowering a lot of women to become micro real estate entrepreneurs and earn money.
When people support blanket bans, they are cutting off income and opportunity for people, mostly women.
Punish bad guests, have the police fine them. Towns make money off speeding and parking tickets, I see no reason they can't make money off the occasional guest violating a noise ordinance.