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WS - Redacted Response FormsUSOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals 1 message noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:57 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Doug Last Name Harsy Email Message about Short -Term Please include me with all activity regarding short term home Home Rentals rentals Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 4:54 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Jackie Last Name Holcombe Email Message about Short -Term I am strongly opposed to short-term home rentals for the Home Rentals following reasons: 1) decreases overall neighborhood home values, 2) Increases traffic and parked cars in the neighborhood, 3) Brings in unknown persons which could possibly decrease the safety of our children, 4) the loss of opportunity to develop long term relationship with "neighbors". Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:54 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Scott Last Name Roberts Email Message about Short -Term Generally oppose any kind of home rentals in our community. I Home Rentals understand and support personal freedoms, but to many "transient" people degrade the community for everyone else. Renters simply are not as vested in the community as property owners. Having short term renters occupying our neighborhoods is not a positive step toward building communities of invested residents who care deeply about each other and or city. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:18 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Irene Last Name Binyon Email Message about Short -Term Very concerned about the rentals. Home Rentals Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:59 AM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Shannon Last Name Clouse Email Message about Short -Term I am STRONGLY against short term rentals in southlake. We Home Rentals work hard to ensure a safe enivronment for our community and welcoming guests that stay for a few nights without regard potentially to neighborhood noise or safety is very unwelcome. In a city so strongly opposed to apartments I'm not sure why we would tolerate AirBnB type situations. I would like to see our city enact the strongest possible ordinances to keep this activity out of our city. Those in favor of this are probably most likely those profiting from this. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:31 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Kristi Last Name McGuire Email Message about Short -Term My husband and I are AGAINST short term rentals. We live Home Rentals next door to 445 Marshall Rd. From April to Aug. of this year we have seen people come and go from the house at all hours. Some days and weekends there are a lot of cars , other nights there is only one car parked out front and Uber drops people off after dark. Checkout time is 3:00 p.m. It always looked like 4 people were in the house by the average daily 2 cars in the driveway. Checkout time, you could not count the number of people coming out of the house. (I would always check the reviews on the site to see who was in the house after each visit) Reviews would say "beautiful neighborhood", "quiet neighborhood", "secluded", "great house for a party". The movie directors review said " neighborhood has a problem with diversity". We don't have a problem with diversity, the problem was with your movie blocking the entrance to my home!" We've seen people unpacking suitcases and changing clothes in the driveway because the previous hotel guest have not checked out on time. One Sunday at 7 a.m., a person was staring into my backyard. I went to the fence and asked her if she needed help, she turned away, stared at the ground and asked if she could pet my dogs. One week, person driving a white van rented the house. They would drop people off at the house and wait in the van outside (this went on for a week at all hours of the night and day). I know this because I would take pictures of cars in the driveway for our HOA and it scared me to death to see someone sitting in the van. The week after the white van rental, the Marfa ISD SUV's were at the house. Young girls were outside taking videos of the house and our neighborhood. was very torn between contacting someone at Marfa to warn them about the dangers of what could be left in the house after the white van rental. One man rented the house to shoot a movie. Cars were parked up and down Marshall Rd. When I returned home, I could not get down our street because the car in the "shoot" was driving back and forth in middle of street. Hoa told us to call the police. Police said it was public street and anyone could park there. After I turned around and took other entrance to get to my house, my husband and neighbors were out in the street observing the movie shoot. Director (renter) asked us to get out of the same street the police had just told us was public because we were blocking the shoot. When calling the police to report heavy traffic by renter , their response was "it's a legal agreement between homeowner and renter". Followed by "my wife would agree with you but the law is blah blah blah". Is it legal to run a hotel in a residential neighborhood? When the homeowner doesn't live in the house, how do they know if everything happening in the home is legal? The following night of outside movie shoot, the movie shoot moved inside the house. "Actors" starting showing up at 10:30 p.m. By 5:30 a.m. the next morning, all the cars were gone. One weekend, there were 5 couples, 4 kids and 3 dogs at the house. Lady came to the fence (again asking if her kids could pet my dogs) and told us they couldn't get a hotel room for all of them and at $213 a night, they were able to get the house for $46 a couple (they were in town for an archery competition) . In July, I was replanting some pots out front. Heard something, turned to look at side of our house and there was a man (inside the fence of rented house) on his hands and knees crawling around. Did not get a picture of that because I did not have my camera at the time. The scariest part of this short term rental business, is the internet. Anyone can put anything on these short term rental sites and nobody checks it. These hosts work in secret. Once my neighbor started getting fined by our Hoa, he started to get more secretive. Kept a car parked in the garage with the garage door open most of the time. People park in the garage, come around to front of house to get in and then close the garage door till they leave. My neighbor hasn't watered his yard all Summer. The renters will put their trash in the neighbors trash cans or leave the trash outside on a Tues. afternoon after the trash has been picked up. One week, trash stayed out in the street for 5 days and then got put behind fence for another week before it got taken out. I checked the AIR BNB and VRBO site everyday because I was looking for the house next door to be taken off the internet. Mid Aug. the house was off the web, same day it was off, I saw a house in Vaquero listed and called my friend who lives in Vaquero to warn them about the short term rental. She turned the information over to their property manager. Property Mgr. notified the owners of the house that some stranger had listed a room for rent and used a picture of their house. Advertised "private guard gated community, complete with fishing pond, golf course and clubhouse". The picture of couple listing the house were not the homeowners. Was told by my friend that the property mgr. told her when you click on the rental, it takes you to another house that was renting a room. I went to the Mayor's round table discussion meeting. That night, came home and looked at the AIR BNB site. All of the homes that had previously been listed in Southlake were not listed anymore. My daughter had a friend whose sister worked for AIR BNB in Italy. She told them (back in 2010) that AIR BNB's biggest problem (world wide) was that people rented the houses and used them in the sex trade. These short term rental sites make it look good on the internet. They have pages of instructions for hosts that include "notify the neighbors before you rent", "contact the city", "check your city's zoning regulations" , "contact your HOA". Very few "HOSTS" do what the website says they should do. The site has instructions on how to do background checks (and suggests that you do before you rent) . Some hosts list their home but don't give the address until you contact them to rent. Advertise "nice home in private gated community in Trophy Club, please contact host for address". These short term rental sites also have pages of information about how to write off expenses for tax purposes. I'm guessing my neighbor is writing off all of the "upkeep" for the home and who is checking to see that they are doing that? We know from the outside they are not but have no idea what the inside of the house looks like. I read on one of these sites that rental prices are regulatory and that is why long term rental rates are so high. Short term rentals don't have to abide by the same rules. Our property values are going down because we live next door to a hotel that allows pets. The city has strict rules and regulations about commercial business, can't understand why our hotel next door gets a free ride. It should not even be allowed in our residential neighborhood. Why would anyone want to stay in the new hotel in Carillion when they can stay down the street for $213 a night? Please google "downside of Air BNB or short term rentals". Newspaper articles will give you information about tax cuts and other incentives that these short term rental companies promise cities and then haven't come through with what they promised. Our neighborhood is not a vacation destination. We live in a residential neighborhood that is zoned residential and yet a commercial business (with no regulatory rules or restrictions) has been operating next door to our home. The city needs to adopt strict rules (that can be enforced) to protect the residents. These short term rental hosts hide behind the internet, produce fake references, make fake promises to their "guests". Please try to do everything you legally can to make these short term rentals uninviting to our beautiful city. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:15 AM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Patricia Last Name Krapf Email Message about Short -Term We are opposed to short-term rentals. Home Rentals Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 8:38 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Jeri Last Name Burnett Email Message about Short -Term We attended the meeting in September for short term rentals. Home Rentals Our neighborhood would like updates. I am the spokes person for Napa Valley, here in Sourhlake. Please let us know what we need to do next to make sure Sourhlake eliminates VRBO. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:24 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Kristi Last Name McGuire Email Message about Short -Term I filled out this form describing the horrific details of the hotel Home Rentals next door to our house. Do you want pictures to go along with these details? I have a log that I sent to our HOA's attorney. Will be happy to provide more details if needed. Please email us so that we will know you received our original message. thank you, Sean and Kristi McGuire Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. USOUTHLAKE Jerod Potts <jpotts@ci.southlake.tx.us> Online Form Submittal: Short -Term Home Rentals noreply@civicplus.com <noreply@civicplus.com> Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:55 PM To: pschank@ci.south lake.tx.us, kbaker@ci.south lake.tx.us, jpotts@ci.south lake.tx.us, dkillough@ci.southlake.tx.us Short -Term Home Rentals Contact Us The Southlake Planning and Development Services Department welcomes your comments, suggestions and concerns. We will respond to your email within 48 hours. To call us, please dial (817) 748-8621 during regular business hours. Thank you for your submission. First Name Travis Last Name Fairbairn Email Message about Short -Term I believe that ultimately, it's the home owners choice to use the Home Rentals residence as a short term rental. They are the ones who invested their hard earned money into the home (probably the largest investment of their lives). If they decide to build their net worth by creating some additional income, thats their decision. Unless the city wants to invest in the short term rental, they have no right to control their citizen's home. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.