Oct 16 2008
California to Set Vacation Rental Rules
The popular city of Ventura attracts thousands of visitors on vacation each year, many renting beach front vacation homes for short term fun in the sun. These vacationers drop in from all over the country and often pay over $3,000 a week for the convenience and excitement of opening a door and stepping onto the beach. This steady support of the local economy is more than welcome, but with this flow of vacation money comes other less than pleasant features of a tourist economy.
Vacationers renting property in the city of Ventura often arrive in party mode. This spills into the surrounding community with a lot of noise from music, singing, dancing, and the general excitement of large vacation parties. With that of course comes the trash that is often left scattered all over and traffic problems with the additional vehicles coming in and out. There definitely is a downside to living in beach communities near these vacation rental properties where these sorts of renters often pop up.
As can only be expected, people who live in these communities do not like the negative aspects brought into the community from vacation renters who get out of control and leave a mess behind them. It has become a source of conflict and emotion and is to the point the city of Ventura has decided to take action to fix the problem with vacation rental properties.
City officials are planning to hold a series of meetings to discuss a new system of rules for landlords of vacation rentals. The goal is to have measures that landlords of such rental properties will have to follow in the future, and hopefully the problems that rowdy renters on vacation often cause can be managed by the landlords who rent the property to them to begin with.
The series of meetings will include four meetings total and they will all be held at Ventura City Hall on Poli Street. The first of the series of meetings is schedule to begin at 6 PM on October 2. Later meetings will be held at the same time on October 30 and November 5.
Instead of trying to set the rules themselves and fighting the landlords and Ventura city residents in the future, city officials have invited landlords, managers, realtors, and any neighbors that wish to attend the meetings to do so. City officials believe the input of the community should bring more compliance and understanding of the rules from everyone who has to live and vacation in the area.
Some of the topics expected to be covered are noise levels, length of vacation stays, the number of people in occupancy, parking and traffic problems, and trash issues.
City officials have stated they do not want to put the rental properties out of business. They do want the renters who come to Ventura to vacation to abide by reasonable rules of conduct. Right now, there are around thirty registered vacation homes in Ventura city limits and a couple homes are in process of being registered as vacation homes. Local residents claim there are probably more homes operating as vacation rentals that are not registered with the city.