If you are set on Tampa, I'd recommend finding a property that still pencils as a LTR if they ever crackdown on the STRs in whatever pocket of Tampa you may find.

They may crack down and use the IRS requirement (and IMO probably will, since it is the most handy definition to hang a hat on) or it might be an existing state statute if one exists or what is deemed reasonable by the local HUD authorities/Prosecutors.

You are very correct on the crackdown.

Plus, without double closing it really is practing agency without a license, so the NAR lobby will be happy to encourage the public officials to crack down on those hucksters trying to scam grandma out of her equity.Personally, I dont at all mind the letters and postcards.

They aren't outrageous fees, just been nickel and dimed a bit. https://coolbaughtwp.org/depar...I'm not seeing a "crack down" of sorts in my neighborhood.

Can't give you too much advice but  don't be like this guy...Be aware that San Francisco is beginning to crack down on people who abuse the BMR system.

FTC will one day crack down on the wholesale gurus who promise rich's with no money just like they did on the fix and flip guru's who were touting 40k a month flipping houses etc etc.

A lot of wholesalers are going to get a rude awakening if and when they crack down on the process.

Short answer- NO- there is no crackdown or STR problem in Sedona- and there is no issue in the VOC, either.Longer answer,Before Arizona changed the law and now only HOA's can determine length of rentals, Sedona used to be a 1 month minimum rental town for all single family homes.

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