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Primary Residency and Hosted/Unhosted Short Term Rentals: Why Does It Matter?
— from Harmari (Harmari is a company similar to Host Compliance/Granicus).
The effort to regulate the impact of short-term rentals (STRs) on a community requires an ongoing commitment; it is never finished once and for all.
Because of the ongoing and complicated nature of this effort, municipal leaders should work as hard as possible to enact the short-term rental ordinances that will have the most impact, and perhaps the most powerful of these is the primary residency requirement.
Creating ordinances requiring that STRs must be the primary residence of the owner, and/or establishing that the host must be present during a guest stay, will help block the impact of commercial operators who want to buy up multiple residential properties as investments. If unchecked, commercial STR growth will have many negative impacts, including:
The disappearance of affordable housing stock.
Excessive STR activity, to the detriment of quality of life in the community.
STR revenue leaving the community.
By restricting STR operations to a host's primary residence, municipalities can respect a homeowner's wish to generate income from their property without opening the door to a flood of outside speculative investors.
Article continues at: https://www.planning.org/blog/9216286/primary-residency-and-hosted-unhosted-short-term-rentals-why-does-it-matter/
There are a vast amount of online articles, videos and STR ordinances explaining the advantages of a primary residence requirement.
Below are two useful introductory videos on economic and community effects of Investor STRs.
DENVER, CO
Short-Term rentals laws, rules, and regulations
In 2016, Denver City Council adopted an ordinance regulating short-term rentals. Key features of Denver’s short-term rental laws, rules, and regulations include:
All short-term rentals must have a license.
Any short-term rental must be the host’s primary residence.
All advertisements must display the host’s business license number.
All short-term rental hosts must follow rules related to safety, taxes, zoning, and insurance.
Hosts who do not follow the rules could be fined, or could lose their license.
BOZEMAN, MT
Short-Term Rental Primary Residence Requirement, and reasons why adopted
Non-Owner Occupied is prohibited.
Primary Resident Requirement for both Type 1 and Type 2 Short-term Rentals.
From the Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/10/18/bozeman-votes-to-ban-some-short-term-rentals-grandfathers-others/
“We have to do everything we can to make sure people who live and work in Bozeman are housed, full stop.” —COMMISSIONER CHRIS COBURN
“We organized town halls, rallies, vigils, knocked [on] thousands of doors and met with commissioners in our own homes,” said Bozeman’s Marie Lynn, who is a leader in the tenants’ organization. “We believe that people who work in Bozeman deserve to live in Bozeman.”
View Bozeman new ordinance here: https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/2198194/FINAL_Ord._2149_9.26.23.pdf
BOULDER, CO
The city's Boulder Revised Code and Property Maintenance Code require all rental properties in Boulder to maintain a valid rental license. The code establishes minimum standards for the use and safe occupancy of dwellings to protect, preserve and promote the physical and mental health of its residents.
Short-term rentals are properties that are rented for 29 days or less at a time.
The rental property must be the owner’s principal residence; principal residence is defined as the dwelling unit in which a person resides for more than one-half of the year.
The name on the license must be the same as the name on the deed for the property, the owner must be a natural person, trust, or a nonprofit organization.
The owner must follow the city’s occupancy limits.
Once issued, a Short-Term Rental Annual Affidavit and fee must be submitted by the issuance anniversary date to maintain your Short-Term Rental License. If the Annual Affidavit to certify principal residency is not completed, the license will be revoked.
TWO INTERESTING WEBSITES:
https://www.unfairbnb.net/ (2017)
https://www.keepneighborhoodsfirst.org/