Short-term rental owners will soon be required to register their properties with the city to stay in business in Scottsdale.Armed with a recently enacted state law, Council unanimously amended the city’s vacation rental code to require owners to obtain a $250 local license annually beginning Jan. 8.They will have to register their name, address, phone number and email address for the owner or owner’s agent, the rental’s address and proof of compliance with transaction privilege tax license requirements.

The city council has ruined Seattle.

I know it happens in these low value asset areas normally to non english or minority owners that are just not sophisticated and dont seek council.

Hi Mel,Contact a local eviction attorney by phone--ASAP.Describe the physical intimidation--scaring--hopefully with some kind of record of it.List all of the lease violations they have done.Let the Eviction-Pro handle it.However the cards come down--obey the law on your side 100% at all times.Ask the Eviction-Pro for a (FEW) references of local attorenies that can work to blunt the lawsuit for you.Get someone to work on that lawsuit ASAP.Be aware that they may lie and may also have a free Legal Aid attorney working for them.If they have lied in a material manner, ask your attorney to point it out to opposing council, and opposing counsel might step down--leaving them to have to out of pocket attorney fees, which changes the whole ballgame.Consider selling this unit and in the future looking only in more upscale areas for deals--such as B areas.Learn how to "Vet" potential renters vs. whoever can fog a mirror, because my guess is with the physical intimidation aspect this might be an on again off again convict.There are owners in here that can handle these "Difficult" renters and make money off of them--but it's not everyone's "Cup of Tea".Good Luck!

...continuedMy late father grew up in the rural areas where that traditional hut is usually found.We would visit grandma usually on Easter, Christmas.The homestead usually has four-five huts spaced twenty metres apart in a homestead setup.One hut is a big Kitchen where the family gathers at meal time, the other huts are bedrooms for the parents, boys, girls etc...then one other could be a guestroom as space should a visitor comeThe huts are made from logs for the walls, with mud for plastering, then thatch for roofing supported by some poles.Usually fifty metres away is cattle kraal and goat pen.Milking of cows or goats sometimes would happen early morningThese rural areas also know as reserves unfortunately most were in poor /marginal agricultural areas hence a rural to urban migration has occurred.In Urban areas the land would be most owned by the council.Some former farms where annexed as the city grew.So the the Urban Council which is the local government owns a lot of land and residents register on the housing waiting list.Over time the council flights a tender for a developer to service some of its lands for the provision of houses for those on the waiting listBy service that is add roads, water connection, drainage and sewer pipeline and connect to electrical grid.The house lots are most divided into lots 200 -300square metres or whatever ideal size.The aim is to provide affordable housing for those on the register.The house built will be inspected and approved by council at foundation, roof level and finally the council issues a certificate of occupancy when house is complete and inspected as safe and up to standardNow specifically to your questions1) Yes there are some developers who not only service the land but also build some of the houses.I don't know if they rent these out but i know they sell them, sometimes with terms.Affordable houses have a going rate of USD20/room/month at the minimum.Brick wall with asbestos roofing2) The renter/buyers of these type of house could sometimes be a civil servant (i.e teachers, nurses, policemen etc), self-employed tradespeople, diaspora (those working outside the country desirous to invest back home)3)Anything of value is their salary, profits of their small business4) Hard to build?

Local residence are going to be screaming city councils will adopt tough regulations etc etc..  

A proposed Seattle City Council bill could cap rent late payment fees at $10 per month, with the hope of helping tenants who fall behind on rent avoid higher balances.While renters in the city have been protected from late fees and any other fees associated with non-payment throughout the pandemic, that protection will expire this October, a year after the city ended its civil emergency." 

I sold my rental duplex in South Minneapolis in 2022 after getting frustrated with the City Council and leadership allowing riots and the burning down of local businesses in the local community and the gov't not stepping in until 4 days later with the national guard. 

I'm not naming names but  the Seattle city council made it a point of telling everyone how evil landlords are.

This will not help tenants but these activist city council members refuse to consider that.