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All Forum Posts by: Chris Warin

Chris Warin has started 1 posts and replied 6 times.

I'd also get estimate from Home Depot or lowes as they can be the overseer or take the hit if something goes sideways. 

I've been paying taxes to my local jurisdiction and the state directly using by local and state business ids. Recently, VRBO has disabled the ability for owners to pay their own taxes and VRBO pays it for them. The issue is that there is no way to associate my local or state business sid w/ the VRBO tax payments and VRBO does not have a way to give me confirmation of the payments like canceled checks or draft receipt. I can only download something on their dashboard that says paid to the following. Has anyone run across this new policy and it sounds like I should stop paying my local and state as VRBO is doing it on my behalf? Customer service was awful, they kept saying to download the report on the website and had no solutions to allow me to pay on my own, provide them my business ids or get confirmation of payments from the paid local and state entities.

Post: Cabinets in Virginia Beach Virginia

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Originally posted by @Jacob Kenneally:

@G. Emerson Zollos we use Dave’s Same Day Cabinets for the cabinets and granite. Best prices we’ve found. We install them ourselves so not sure about the contractors side of the question. Hope it helps! The are on the toll bypass road near edinburogh

How does Dave's work regarding counter sizes?

Originally posted by@Olga Kostrova:

I finally closed my first condo in VB.  It's curious.  In their CCRs they mentioned nothing at all about rentals, neither long term not short term. Nothing about restricting or allowing, no penalty specified - nothing.

But when I called the HOA office they "think" short term rental is not allowed. Well, I knew they will "think" that, but the documents don't specify it. So, if I go ahead with short-term rentals and they try penalizing me, can i just reference to their CCRs and request them to show me where does it regulate the rental? What if they reference to some document II've never been shown?

I mean, what are my rights in relation to that?

IRT to above, I believe the rules of the HOA trump any city rules on STR so if the HOA doesn't allow STR it could be an issue with neighbor complaints and HOA fines etc. IRT to the city rules on STR, there is an overly that indicates where you are allowed to have STRs. It looks to be designated to areas on the North Beach, the boardwalk area closer to the shore, Sandbridge is different or exempt. Here is a good website that outlines the areas, I am not sure if everything is approved but it does show what the city is considering or has approved.

https://jessicapabbottvb.com/2...

I have evaluated lodigfy, smartbnb and yourporter. I really wanted to like lodigfy but the things below crossed it off my list.

1) There wasn't a way to add a cleaning fee individually, it would add it to my total rates that sync'd over. So when you booked on Airbnb it would not show a separate cleaning fee.

2) The API Connects to Airbnb and VRBO are very odd. I had to fill out a form and then it would take at least a business day to setup. If I did it over the weekend I had to wait until Monday for something to happen. I believe they had to do something in the backend that required manual configuration during business hours. Other property management systems sync'd up immediately.

3) Customer service takes a while to respond, I asked a question this morning and they have not replied. I believe this is probably because they are from Spain and on a different time zone https://www.crunchbase.com/org...

4) Costs seem to add up over other platforms.

RIght now yourporter is my top pick

I am reviewing the Proposed Overlay Ordinance Recommendation Summary from March 10th, 2021. View the Proposed Overlay Ordinance Recommendation Summary: HERE

On page 10 they are proposing to change "Contact person must be available to address problem within 30 minutes. Not required to physically go to STR."
to
"Responsible party must be able to physically respond to site within 30 minutes." or "Responsible party must be able to physically respond to site within one hour."

Does this mean you are no longer able to remotely manage your STR and must hire someone nearby? What is the likely hood this will pass?