Comments on: Sedona Short Term Rental Ban Protectionism

By: West Sedona resident

West Sedona resident — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:24:33 +0000

Obviously rentals shorter than a month should be banned. How Sedona does that has to be figured out and enforced. The comings and goings of vacationers are disruptive to neighborhood ‘community’. As I said before – whether it is a second home rental or someone’s ‘living’ (multiple home rentals), it should be taxed.

By: magickj

magickj — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:32:56 +0000

There’s a “black-market” list of places where you can rent rooms/home for short stays. Usually a word-of-mouth referral, I know of several people who will rent bedrooms, guest houses and often their own home for less than the 30 days. I live on the same street as one such operation and to tell the truth, I can’t tell when there’s people there or not, except for a stray car or two on our street. I have also succumbed to this law when I did a house-trade – took a vacation and stayed in a home while the residents of that home stayed in my home – and technically broke the law. It’s true – it’s not for safety, it’s for the bed taxes. I’m with you on this one, Henry! And if people don’t want to stay in over-priced hotels, motels, B&Bs, all they have to do is get on the internet or ask a local at one of the coffee places in west Sedona. Fly low and avoid the radar.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:36:23 +0000

Henry, If anything the city should use a reason that makes a bit more sense. At best, Sedona is a one nighter for tourists, at least that is what we hope anyway since almost 40% of our revenue comes from sales tax. Tourists “blowing through” to the Grand Canyon do little to benefit our economy. What does hurt are short term rentals that create situations in neighborhoods where you do not know who is living next door, nad also can create noise and other problems as they do not have to have any consideration for neighbors. To make a statement that this has something to do the the lodging people shows you do not understand the business.

By: Alarmed

Alarmed — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:38:28 +0000

Henry…you must give thanks every day that you have an outlet for your nonsense.

By: SLA

SLA — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:17:14 +0000

I will second Jimmy.

By: West Sedona resident

West Sedona resident — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:21:19 +0000

I agree with Jimmy. Further I suggest we tax all home rentals. We have rented short and long term all over the country; they all tax rentals. It’s a business after all.

By: Gertrude

Gertrude — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:15:45 +0000

vamous to short term rental varmits

we’ve got enough desert rats in Sedona without the two legged variety

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:59:20 +0000

You do make some good points, Mr, Twombly. However, have you experienced the coming and going, at all hours, the intrusiveness ot vacation renters within areas zoned single family residential? Believe me, it isn’t pleasant. And now with the rash of home burglaries how do we know that these strangers walking our neighborhoods aren’t just literally making themselves at home and filling their backpacks with treasure troves? Bad deal, believe me.

As property owners practice renting to vacationers selfishly rake in from $3000 to $5000 a month, tax free, while surrounding property owners must sometimes tolerate loud parties requiring police intervention, dogs running amok off leashes, loud racing motocycles, to mention a few of the negatives of short-term rentals, do you really find that tolerable?

If so, promote it in your own neighborhood and let those of us who object continue to fight for our privacy and quality of life that brought us to living in Sedona in the first place.

Thank you.