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@loretta1 said:
I rent out my studio in Bondi through Air B n B, and I object to being called a parasite.
Loretta, yours is a perfect example of how strata really works. If every short-term landlord was like you, there would be no need for any rules or regulations. No complaint from neighbours, then no problems. But that’s just one of the reasons you are not a “parasite”. It may well be that short-term lets are allowed in your building anyway – the DA and by-laws will reveal that. Even if they don’t, you are considerate of your neighbours and – and here’s the significant difference – it is a place you return to regularly and stay there yourself so you are accountable for the behaviour of your guests. That makes a world of difference. And, by the way, I too have worked in TV and I know only too well how patchy work can be.
However, take, someone who owns several apartments in one building that IS zoned “permanent residential only” but he weasels his way through every loophole, real and imagined, to rent them out for periods as short as two nights, threatens residents who complain (and they do) then blithely sits on the committee of another building that doesn’t allow short-term lets even though it has exactly the same DA. What do you call someone like that?