Some Cities Banning Home Vacation Rentals

A frequent use of self storage is to store one’s possessions during a vacation, so that one’s home can be rented to another vacationer. A once rare practice, renting residential homes for a vacation has become common over the last decades, as travelers try to make do on smaller budgets. Renting a home from the homeowner is often cheaper than staying in a hotel. But this summer many cities have begun to ban short-term vacation rentals, including apartment rentals and condo rentals. In other cities, longstanding laws against the short term rentals are being enforced more rigorously for the first time. New York and Chicago passed laws this summer banning short-term rentals. Maui, Hawaii, has begun to enforce an old law against short-term vacation home rentals, and so has Paris, France. [More]