Interfering with any other unit’s right to quiet enjoyment is the law I can see being broken. Body Corporates cannot create by-laws interfering with this right, as Jimmy suggests. Yes you can create the by-law, but it is only a bluff and not legal. Jimmy is bluffing you now, plus wasting your time. Only Councils can stop short term letting if they have a clause in their LEP that overrides the State Planning Act that allows it. Body Corporates do not have this power or right so why is this suggested over and over again over the years I have read this forum.
This is Jimmy’s personal bugbear and is not giving all the correct information for a fair 2 sided debate and the tone of the language is a bit extreme. Everything short term letters are “guilty” of, so are permanent letters and owners.
Nearly all my guests are retired grandparents visiting family close by. My neighbour told me that he thought the apartment was vacant permanently as he hears nothing (meanwhile he is blowing cigarette smoke into my window, also perfectly legal). The permanent tenants in the building have parties, start Harleys at 6am, leave rubbish everywhere that I clean up, because it is embarrassing for overseas visitors to see. My guests, mostly hail from England, bring plenty of money to spend in the local area. They make friends with my friendly neighbouring apartment.
Backpackers cannot afford to rent holiday apartments. The rental code states we can only rent to 2people per bedroom at one time, unlike permanent renters and owners that can do what they want.
If a short term tenant is noisy (never happened to me in 15 years!), it is the same remedy as a long term tenant, but at least you don’t have to put up with it forever. It has nothing to do with the owner but is a police matter. Call the police and stop whinging to the wrong people.
So I have broken no laws and have looked after the building when 10 of the 12 owners are interstate investors who refuse to spend a cent on maintenance. Yet somebody like Jimmy campaigns for years to take away my livelihood. I make about 15% extra from holiday rental, which allows me to stay home and look after my disabled child. I have not affected anybody in anyway ever, except to make them happy. Yet given the chance, Jimmy would try and take this off me because he believes we all need to be punished whether we are annoying or not. He wants to take away the opportunity that allows beautiful loving families to visit their loved ones, in my case it is usually for the birth of a baby. They cannot afford to travel to Australia and pay 3 or 4 weeks in a hotel room. Also there are not many hotels nearby anyway.
Yes I agree that there are some problems in some areas like everything in this world. If you get a bad plumbing job do you run down every plumber in Australia. Do not go after good people because of a few bad eggs or one bad personal experience. Look at issues as a one off or isolated case and solve that issue. Fix the real problem. Then get over it.