One group is proposing the state convert 50,000 vacation rentals to long-term housing.
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One group is proposing the state convert 50,000 vacation rentals to long-term housing.
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As frequent visitors of Kauai, we love the vacation home options. We usually come for 3 weeks and a hotel room is not comfortable. It’s a shame that the State is discouraging this type of stay. It’s “biting off their nose despite their face”. When we visit we spend a lot of cash on the wonderful local restaurants and support the local art community as well. If vacation rentals become unaffordable we will not come back. The D’s TX
So, given the bill recently passed in the Hawaii legislature, will I be able to find a STVR on the Big island in winter/spring of 2025?
On the Big Island, they’re breaking down the vacation rentals into three broad categories:
1. Hosted rentals (where the owner lives on the property, like an ohana unit)
2. Managed rentals (where a management company takes care of renting and cleaning and is on call for issues)
3. Unhosted rentals (like Air BnB and VBRO, where someone comes in and cleans between rentals but is not on call 24/7).
Unhosted rentals, particularly by off-island owners, are the most problematic. Poor planning and lax enforcement have allowed these properties to proliferate in residential neighborhoods, resulting in unwanted noise and increased traffic. Reigning these in would go a long way to establishing a better equilibrium.
That makes more sense and is a balanced response to this problem.
Drew808
So glade to hear someone out there has a solution to the problem.
Great to hear people like you willing start at the problem and not focus on putting a band aid on the situation.
Well said
This is good, and a further breakdown should be added of unhosted short-term rentals in/not in residential neighborhoods, since that’s where the problem lies. The vast majority of short-term rentals on Maui, for instance, are not in residential neighborhoods.
They need to dump all STRs, unhosted or hosted, in residential neighborhoods throughout Hawaii.
Residential neighborhoods are not setup for mini-hotels.
We are travelers with disposable income, and have enjoyed many visits to Hawaii over the past 25 years. If vacation rentals are no longer a housing option for the two three-week trips a year we currently enjoy there, we will not travel to Hawaii. Full stop.
Any disposable monies you done want, I would be willing to take all that you can give.
Just let me know when you want to get ride of it.
Thanks for your consideration
Short-term rentals are a commercial use in residential zoning.
Change my mind.
Why take the effort to change your mind when all you have to do is look it up to see that it is not true?
So since you are in favor of mini-hotels in residential zoninig, you’d be OK with me setting up used car lots all over based in residential zoning? How about mini-restaurants based out of houses? Mini-water parks on front lawns? Anything, is OK, right?
By your definition, even long-term rentals are “commercial”.
Where’s the Laughing Emoji???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man Bill. You are more salty than the Sea…. Your true kanaka is showing. 🤙🏼🌺 Aloha
Aloha and Mahalo to you too, Teebs…