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For nonresident vacation rental owners - jerry - 02-21-2012
I received an e-mail from HomeAway/VRBO concerning Hawaii house bill 1707. I think there is a matching senate bill.
According to the info I got this bill:
"Requires nonresident owners of residential single family dwellings, apartments, or townhouses who rent their property as a transient accommodation for 30 days or less to rent the property through a licensed real estate broker or salesperson who must collect all applicable taxes for the rental of the property. Provides for penalty. (HB1707 HD2)"
See also http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/HB1707_HD2_.pdf
Jerry
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RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - macuu222 - 02-21-2012
Good luck enforcing it if it passes
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - Seeb - 02-21-2012
the real estate agents will, by tracking any ads and calling the people and telling them rent thru me or i will turn you in
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - macuu222 - 02-21-2012
It says the enacting date if passed will be January 1 , 3000. LOL
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - mailesomaha - 02-21-2012
(Raises hand) I'm a salesperson.
ETA: No license is required for a salesperson, or for my dog groomer apparently.[
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RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - BradW - 02-21-2012
Bottom line, "nonresident owners" equals no vote/no representation. No different from asking voters to approve any other fees or conditions on nonresidents. A no-brainer for the anti-haole mentallity. So many other states have tried this on such things as nonresident hunt/fish licenses and tags as a means to boost revenues, and people get po'd, recreate elsewhere, and revenues go down. And this from a state that lives and breaths on tourism. Hawaii is it's own worst enemy.
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - missydog1 - 02-21-2012
There's already a law that if you are off island you need to have on island management or contact, and that applies to residents of the state who are on another island. It is not an anti-haole thing IMHO.
a) too many don't pay their taxes
and
b) more and more visitors are afraid to rent from owners due to scams and all the foreclosures
and
c) renters have little recourse if things break or aren't as advertised.
A resident owner who is on island is more responsive and responsible.
Too bad it comes to the point where they need to pass a law.
maile, lol, I am fairly sure that it means licensed real estate salesperson. The LRE part can be either broker or salesperson, not some random salesperson. [
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RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - csgray - 02-21-2012
Having rented from off island landlords when we first moved here and stayed in a series of furnished vacation rentals, and having been through what it is like to try to get issues taken care of when the owner is 3000 miles and 6 hours time difference away, I think this is a good law. There needs to be someone HERE to deal with things, otherwise tourists will leave with a bad experience because of a landlord who is off island. It's much harder to blow people off when they are right in front of you, than when you can ignore their emails from afar.
Vacationers should already be paying the tax, so it shouldn't hurt tourism any. It will require that people who live elsewhere and are profiting on Hawaii's investment in parks, roads, and other infrastructure send those taxes on to the state. I know several of our landlords charged us the tax and then kept it because they told us so.
Carol
edited to replace there with their
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - macuu222 - 02-21-2012
Many people who live on the mainland rent their homes here by word of mouth to their friends and relatives and even co-workers knowing that they will take care of the place and make sure everything is clean when they leave. No advertising needed! They pay in advance to the owner and they give them the key. This bill would be very difficult to enforce
RE: For nonresident vacation rental owners - Rob Tucker - 02-21-2012
This law makes private vacation rentals less competitive with the hotels. I suspect the hotel corps are behind this.