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Cottage Life Magazine – Nov 2023

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The Hamilton Spector

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Half-baked B.C. legislation on short-term rentals leaves everyone guessing

Opinion: Telling people to wait for the regulations is the classic response of a government scrambling to fill in the blanks This is exactly what will lead to Tiny Townships STR bylaw demise. The rules are being made up as they go along, and ultimately demonstrates their lack of consultation with actual owners to find a common ground. This was […]

Cottage Life – October 2023

Cottage-country municipalities, rental owners respond to federal government’s rumoured plans to limit STRs READ MORE HERE: https://cottagelife.com/general/municipalities-rental-owners-respond-to-federal-governments-rumoured-plans-to-limit-strs/ FROM THE COTTAGE LIFE WEBSITE Since Tiny Township introduced STR regulations in August 2022, Mayor David Evans says the number of legally permitted STRs in the township has been reduced to 300. He says they had an estimated peak of 600 STRs during the […]

The Toronto Star: Cottage country is locking down with new regulations ….

Cottage country is locking down with new regulations that make it harder to rent out cottages — and some owners are outraged More Ontario municipalities are implementing stricter short-term rental rules, pitting locals against cottage owners — and the people who rent them. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/cottage-country-is-locking-down-with-new-regulations-that-make-it-harder-to-rent-out/article_0b8c5c19-e3d7-5a8f-b100-afe867d24d41.html

Airbnb: Don’t support vilifying short-term rentals as part of a problem with Canada’s housing market

This is exactly what the local council and sadly some media have done. This negative STR narrative is a means to justify bad planning and knee jerk spending. Tiny township have already increased their license fees to off set losses associated with running this program. Those losses will hit taxpayers – when their initial justifications stated it wouldn’t. READ THE […]

Lawsuit challenges Burlington’s short-term rental ordinance

More STR groups are fighting their municipalities. This one is Burlington Vermont. It only takes a single win to set precedence READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://vtdigger.org/2023/09/01/lawsuit-challenges-burlingtons-short-term-rental-ordinance/

More than 100 Summit County Colorado homeowners sue over crackdown on short-term rentals

Glad to see many other STR owners aren’t simply rolling over to demands from their local council. Especially when they haven’t been sought to find common ground on the issue READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/17/summit-county-homeowners-sue-short-term-rental/

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