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A Landlord said:
I would like to say that not all short term rentals create problems … I also think your expression ‘strata parasites’ is unwarranted.
I’ll have to ask you to forgive my occasional use of colourful language, but I don’t consider people like you to be “strata parasites” just those who know they are breaching by-laws and whose guests are disrupting neighbours but who refuse to do anything about it.
Unfortunately, the pro short-term rentals lobby uses mum and dad landlords as a human shield to protect them when their large scale abuses are exposed. The sooner the decent landlords separate themselves from the dodgy dealers, the better it will be for everyone.
And they key to all this is in your comment that you will do what you like with your property as long as you aren’t breaking the law. That’s fine by me – there’s a place for short-term lets, they are allowed and legislated for under certain circumstances. It’s the cowboys and chancers who get on my wick.