02-22-2012, 09:26 AM
Your involvement is hardly typical, Cat.
Many mainland condo owners try to skate by with giving out the name of their cleaning lady as the on island management.
Owners take deposits and don't send reservation confirmations.
Owners take deposits a year in advance, and 30 days out the renter gets an email saying oops, we double-booked the rental, and you need to look elsewhere, at which point all the best ones are gone.
People send deposits to owners who go into foreclosure and keep the deposits.
I hear these stories all the time. It is a problem, and I have never heard so much concern on the part of prospective renters as I have recently (in five years of reading the Hawaii boards). Renters are worried and losing confidence.
Then there is the unpaid taxes issue, which is no doubt a big issue.
I guess they need to balance the interests of the unlicensed people who do their job right vs. the amount of complaints they are receiving from visitors who have been burned.
RIP Marc Hansen, another fine musician gone (Hansen & Raitt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2nxZ3Wrqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTReV9kDS3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTULLjILAg&feature=related
http://web.me.com/cayurt/Yurt_People/history.html
Many mainland condo owners try to skate by with giving out the name of their cleaning lady as the on island management.
Owners take deposits and don't send reservation confirmations.
Owners take deposits a year in advance, and 30 days out the renter gets an email saying oops, we double-booked the rental, and you need to look elsewhere, at which point all the best ones are gone.
People send deposits to owners who go into foreclosure and keep the deposits.
I hear these stories all the time. It is a problem, and I have never heard so much concern on the part of prospective renters as I have recently (in five years of reading the Hawaii boards). Renters are worried and losing confidence.
Then there is the unpaid taxes issue, which is no doubt a big issue.
I guess they need to balance the interests of the unlicensed people who do their job right vs. the amount of complaints they are receiving from visitors who have been burned.
RIP Marc Hansen, another fine musician gone (Hansen & Raitt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2nxZ3Wrqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTReV9kDS3I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTULLjILAg&feature=related
http://web.me.com/cayurt/Yurt_People/history.html