What are the problems?

@Ontheroad You're exactly right about that. I'm in an unincorporated village but the County just recently enacted some legislation to restrict STR's. But the main city (like 5K people) where they actively seek anything that will provide tourist revenue, is having a real battle internally to come up with a solution. The residents are livid. But I think the cat is out of the bag. You can't retroactively take away someone's property. It's a real issue in a whole lot of places around the country. Why Airbnb and the others are allowed to exist, particularly now, is mindblowing to me. I'd like to see a total ban on them. Maybe when I'm King of the World I'll enact that.

@Ynotisay It really depends upon the local government and how hard the locals can push them. While you are right about it being hard to change what is done, it is possible by regulating them out of business with health, fire, safety, zoning, etc., codes, not to mention by using licensing fees, strict compliance inspections, owner residency requirements, etc. What you do is make it financially and operationally difficult and investors will sell and move on.

@Ontheroad You're on the money. That's what the county did here and is being considered nearby. Limiting the amount of days a property can be available, and jacking up fees (and fines for disruptive guests), are a couple of ways they're trying to make it less attractive. And with housing prices (hopefully) poised to reset, I think it'll become a bad financial move and balance will be retained. It just kills me seeing people being forced to leave their own communities so people with zero connection to those communities profit. Not right.

@Stereoguy Yeah I've been wanting to move for a while now. It's just not feasible at the moment.

@Stereoguy Yeah, in many areas of Memphis you could do it too... once, and then you'd be walking. Memphis has a unique set of problems that are rooted in its past. Sort of makes the alligators and snakes feel a little less worse, doesn't it?