Short Term Rental Experiences

I get over 40 new "neighbors" every year since it is anything goes/open season on short term rentals in single family neighborhoods. That is roughly 280 days of 24/7 "we are on vacation we paid our money" attitude for noise/overly loud conversations/trash/overflow parking. For example, next door there were more than seven cars with 10 to 15 adults and kids in a three-bedroom, two-bath house. The Marco Island City Council has for years dismissed any meaningful control, including the simplest of merely requiring registration to determine the number of such properties. Information presented at the request of the City Council estimated there were over 2,000 STR's out of 8,000 single family residential homes. The current proposed ordinance only mentions "where rentals are for less than 30 days" as those requiring registration and does NOT impose any minimum restriction on rental term. It does not impact condos who monitor themselves (interesting as most restrict rental terms to 30+days). The proposed ordinance mirrors the one in force in Ft. Lauderdale since 2015 and I do not believe anyone is aware of that area suffering economically or for lack of tourists. An area where snowbirds once flocked for one, two, three or more months has become a year-round series of weekly misadventures. Vote YES on STR registration so we can finally know just how many there are and how off course the island has become. These absentee owner landlords are running businesses and have forfeited their private residence rights and should be held accountable like any other business for fire, safety, noise and other common-sense restrictions.