Air BnB and short term rentals being attacked by cities

[Jay Hinrichs]

Danville CA.. just voted to out law any rental of less than 30days... St. Helena CA.. ( Napa Valley) home owner fined 20k for breaking the short term rental laws.

seems like one would need to be pretty careful buying and counting on AirBnB unless your in a known resort type setting were its the norm.

[Cole Schlack]

I suggest everyone fight the city/county state codes, this whole thing is an infringement on property rights. Cities can not "outlaw" short term rentals. You can't say they are a business but long term rental is not. Every city in the country allows Daycares and other home based business but they are excluding short term rentals? They can regulate it, they can tax it but they cant stop it. Airbnb and Homeaway need to step up and fight for their customers. I guarantee you the cost for cities to fight this if everyone stands together will be to great. I own 5 rentals homes and plan to do more, I just ignore the cities and find that unless your neighbors are complaining they don't really care. These cities have 100s of ordinances on the books that people are breaking and most don't have time to deal the issue.( I do however stay away from HOA's they do have the power to restrict and you cant win that fight) On a side note, I would never buy a property unless it was a good under-valued property, every rental could be rented long term or sold if needed. Never get tricked into over paying by the cash flow on vacation rentals.