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Hello Mr Strata,
I believe the solution is for OC is to accept the legality of holiday
rentals and to harmoniously embrace them as part of living in a strata building as opposed to own free-standing house.
I disagree that it is very easy to establish a negative impact on the
remainder of the building. In our building there is one owner who is half deaf and watches TV very loudly, another owner who has a dog, another owner who feeds pigeons who often poop around the building, and yet another owner who is always doing the laundry and uses the common laundry area more than anyone else.
Compare this to the quiet habitation of an elderly couple who have come from UK for two weeks to visit their son and daughter-in-law and their newborn grandson. How does one determine which of these neighbours has more negative impact than the other? How can one determine extra maintenance or water costs? One simply can't.
The negative impact that you fear maybe produced by a hostel or backpacker accommodation, but owners of holiday rentals are usually very careful whom they allow into their renovated and well-furnished apartments, because they do not want any damage to their expensive furnishings or complaints from their neighbours. They are usually active on EC and get involved in looking after the building, much more than the absentee landlords, who are only interested in collecting rent via real
estate agents.
It is also questionable whether one would want to live next to an owner or a tenant who was a complete nuisance, but, due to the nature of their long-term tenancy, would have to put up with it indefinitely. At least with the temporary nature of holiday rentals, a bad neighbour will go away after a while.
The advice provided was on the legality of holiday rentals, not on whether it was a good idea, so thank you TEYS lawyers.