Response 17100665

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Questions

1. Are you aware of any additional data on the impacts of short-term lets (over and above that set out in Annex A – The Short-Term Rental Sector, Housing and Tourism in Scotland and briefly summarised above) which the Scottish Government should take into account when considering proposals for regulation?

Yes

2. Should a regulatory framework distinguish between sharing, swapping and secondary letting?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Don't know
Please explain your answer.
Hi

I really wanted to add my comments to this consultation.
As a family who has had multiple buy to let properties I am no stranger to the rules and regulations associated with such property. However over time the amount of compliance, regulation, taxation, landlord registration and health and safety requirements that required to be adhered to made it incredibly difficult for our landlords to operate profit taking into account the amount of work, compliance and effort needed to operate illegal.

Sadly for our family it got to the point that the properties were costing so much in keeping up with regulation that all properties were sold.

Please be under no illusion this ever grown introduction of regulation will see a significant drop in landlords and put people of letting out their home both short and long term.

3. Should the rules be capable of being different depending on the type of accommodation? For example, to distinguish between tenement flats and detached houses.

Please select one item
Yes
No
Don't know

4. Do you have any comments on any other aspect of the definition of short term lets?

Available on air b&b etc

5. Do you have any comments on the positive or negative impacts of short-term lets?

Hi

I really wanted to add my comments to this consultation.
As a family who has had multiple buy to let properties I am no stranger to the rules and regulations associated with such property. However over time the amount of compliance, regulation, taxation, landlord registration and health and safety requirements that required to be adhered to made it incredibly difficult for our landlords to operate profit taking into account the amount of work, compliance and effort needed to operate illegal.

Sadly for our family it got to the point that the properties were costing so much in keeping up with regulation that all properties were sold.

Please be under no illusion this ever grown introduction of regulation will see a significant drop in landlords and put people of letting out their home both short and long term.

About you (optional)

1. Which of the following best describes you. Please choose all that apply:

Please select all that apply
Affected resident
Community organisation
Guest
Host with one property
Host with more than one property
Hosting intermediary
Hotel or B&B owner
Platform
Other

2. How did you hear about the consultation? Please choose all that apply.

Please select all that apply
Online at gov.scot or Citizen Space
Press coverage (local or national)
Referred by Local Authority/Government/MSP/Councillor
Referred by short-term letting host
Referred by short-term letting platform
Other

3. Which of the following describes your short-term letting listing(s)? Please choose all that apply.

Please select all that apply
Couch or spare bed in shared room
Spare room
Entire property, when on holiday only
Entire property
Multiple properties

4. Do you list your room/property/properties on more than one platform?

Please select one item
Yes
No

5. How many properties did you have available for short-term letting in 2018?

1

6. Approximately how many nights was/were your listing(s) occupied in 2018?

10

About you

Are you responding as an individual or an organisation?

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Individual
Organisation