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@Worriedowner said:
Is it legal under strata laws for units to be let for short term holiday makers?
It is illegal if the building is zoned permanent residential and/or there is a by-law in place limiting rentals to residential lets (normally at least three months).
By-laws allowing short-term lets in buildings zoned permanent residential are invalid as you can’t pass a by-law that supersedes a superior law (e.g. planning regulations). However, owners corps can vote to ban short-term lets in their building, even though it may be zoned commercial/residential.
So check your by-laws and your council zoning – either of them may forbid short-term lets. The issue thereafter is how you police it and, as some buildings have discovered, there is so much money to be made from short-term lets that the battle can get very ugly very quickly.