09-17-2020, 06:41 PM
The county had been doing its best even prior to the pandemic to stamp out any alternative accommodation business opportunities for local property owners. Most famously, they banned vacation rentals outside resort zoned areas, but grudgingly grandfathered in most existing ones. Your concept would probably run up against permitting issues of several types. Enforcement, however, is always an open question. Most permit type enforcement is complaint driven, so if your location is remote enough or you have easygoing neighbors, you might get by. I don't know if the county has someone trolling all the alternative accommodation websites looking for unlicensed operations or not. If they do, they are probably not very thorough or particularly competent. (It is the county, after all.) There would always be some risk, though.