Daily Real Estate News  |  September 13, 2007  |   Vacation-Home Renters Irk Full-Time Neighbors
The vacation home rental market has boomed all over the country, pitting owners who rent their properties to short-term tenants against full-time residents who see the renters as a nuisance.

The issue has surfaced all over the country, from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to Venice and Clearwater, Fla., and even in Santa Fe, N.M.

In many places, communities are stepping in to regulate the industry or even trying to ban short-term rentals altogether — with mixed results.

• In Big Bear Lake, Calif., east of Los Angeles in the San Bernardino National Forest, the issue of regulating short-term rentals will be on the ballot in 2008.

• In Maui, county zoning officers are approaching home owners who rent their properties and asking them to shut down.

• In Pismo Beach, Calif., short-term rentals have been illegal for more than a decade, but the law is considered unenforceable.

• A lawsuit over a short-term rental ban in Monroe County, which covers the Florida Keys, has been in and out of court since 1999.

Source: The New York Times, Amy Gunderson (09/07/07)