HomeAway organizing property owners to fight short-term rental restrictions
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Short-term rentals are disruptive, and sometimes illegal. The battle to accommodate them or not is being fought out in hundreds of small battles at the local and state levels.
HomeAway acknowledges that legislative restrictions against short-term rentals are on the books or being discussed in about 100 U.S. communities, and the vacation-rental company has been actively prodding property owners to push back against the laws, either existing or in progress.
From New York City to Arlington, Texas, and the states of Florida and Hawaii, "over-enthusiastic elected officials," tax officers, budget directors, and hypocritical NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) critics in the U.S. and abroad are advocating restrictive and sometimes hard-to-fathom legislation, says Matt Curtis, HomeAway's director of
