Repost as it was in the wrong community.
Good. Being a landlord is not a real job.
He is selling two cottages because of a $300 fee? Drama much?
Guessing its the extra inspections/requirements for these rentals to meet codes that he’s grumbling about - a likely sign his septic is undersized, or there’s a safety concern that would be expensive to fix.
Then this new law is working as it should.
Good.
I say this as someone who recently stayed in a brand new cottage built largely for VRBO in Manitoba. It’s one thing to use the empty cottage to generate a little extra cash. It’s another when cottages are built solely for temporary rental on these sorts of services. Hotel legislation was written in blood. This is people doing a end run around those legal protections.
Protections aside the hotel industry simply can’t offer this type of experience. I don’t mind it at all.
There is (or was) once a pretty nice industry of “cabin resorts” – basically a facility with a bunch of cabins for rent. They are functionally hotels, and subject to all the regulations. Now you rent a VRBO and show up and there’s rotten food in the microwave and you have no recourse.
Yes, this actually happened to us. Yes I have pictures. You can’t smell it in the picture.
Can’t believe it took this long.
All rental units should require the landlord to be licensed. Your life is in their hands to some degree. For some reason we understand this for restaurants and apartment buildings but not landlords?
On the flip side I hope there are still many available for renting. I don’t want to own, but renting a cottage with friends is usually a great time. It’s a vacation rental not a living rental, I see the two categories in wholly different ways.
Depends - the area you see as vacation property is an area that people live in, unless its on seasonal roads only, or water access only.
I live in an area where vacationers from a big city come out and cottage here. Often its a family cottage they’ve been coming to for decades, so I don’t really have a problems with them renting.
But through covid tons of people from the city bought cottages and drove homeowning out of the grasp of any locals. These are full, four season structures on roads serviced by the township. The average housing price ~doubled, and most locals can’t buy.
If people aren’t using the cottage so often that they can rent it out regularly, then I don’t have a problem with them having to give it up or be more heavily regulated.
