Short Term Vacation Rental Industry growth is snowballing. How will regulators keep up? How will they manage compliance and enforcement? On one hand, we have an eager able supplier. The vacation rental property owner. Offering what appears to be an endless stockpile of inventory. On the other hand, we have the traveler, seemingly inexhaustible. In between, instant connectivity. […]
Once in a while I hear from someone who knows someone who had a terrible experience with a home swap or short-term rental. “They moved in all their friends and trashed the place.” “They called and sent me texts with one question after another.” “The water heater went out and I spent a full day of my vacation trying to […]
I have an acquaintance who welcomes short-term guests into her beautiful hilltop home while she and her husband visit their daughter in a country house outside Lyon, France. They’ve done this several months a year for at least a decade, and they’ve always had great tenants. But three years ago they returned home to find that […]