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@carefulinvestor said:
It is the management of the process and the respect for others which makes this work. We need to look at ways of getting this to be the case with these kinds of arrangements rather than trying to shut them down.
OK, but the difference between an hotel and an apartment is that you don’t have staff running the residential building 24 hours, seven days a week. Who pays for the management of these problems? And why should permanent residents have to put up with any unnecessary disruption to their lives until the problem is managed?
There is a whole tower block in the southern end of the city that was designed and built for short-term rentals. From what I hear, it’s never short of clients.
Short-term lets in residential buildings are undercutting bona fide hotels, guest houses and executive rentals for the simple reason that they leach off all the good things about apartment living and contribute proportionately less than other owners compared to the wear and tear involved.
Why would anyone in their right mind allow investors to bring complete strangers, whom even the landlords and their agents have never met, into their homes in the hope that they will behave themselves?
It’s time everyone grew up and started accepting that apartments are permanents homes and not just a stop-gap on the way to a McMansion