02-21-2012, 02:05 PM
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
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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
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Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb