2024-03-30 PL-CCI-2024-000003 Bill 121 Concerned Citizen Testimony

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4. This approach will generate more unemployment... - Creating any situation that reduces TARS or require TARS to convert to LTR will immediately eliminate 1000's of local jobs (housekeepers, landscapers, and maintenance, property caretakers etc)that locals and their families depend on to survive here. Without these jobs these people will lock the ability to afford to live here and ultimately be forced to leave the island, as so many hove already. 5. This approach is attempting to force LTR prices to be reduced... - which, if Councilperson Kimball did her due diligence and presented ANY authentic third- porty statistical research, the research will show that prices will not reduce or be reduced enough to make any significant or insignificant difference to the current situation. 6. This approach is attempting to increase the number of long-term rentals... l know l am not alone when l soy if Councilperson Kimball did her due diligence she would discover that a majority of us will NOT convert from TAR to LTR. We would rather keep our units vacant and establish other sources of income than shift to LTRs. The list of risks including financial is just too great with LTRs here in Hawaii due to current Tenant/Landlord lows. Originally, I had LTR. I did not want to deal with the complexities of TAR. However, after the continual negative experiences of having LTR dominating and the ongoing real threat of non-paying tenants taking advantage of the ease of leveraging Squatter Rights here in Hawaii, and tenants not respecting other basic county laws i.e sound ordinances, health, safety, occupancy numbers, and the difficulty we as Landlords face trying to enforce these due to current tenant rights... I converted over to TAR. Having LTRs I not only lost income, but I also still had to pay the utilities consumed by the non-paying tenants while waiting to move through the long legal and costly eviction processes. In the end I was unable to recoup any of the lost income and utility costs consumed by this financial resource. A LTR is a significant financial burden that most will not return to until the tenant/landlord laws are drastically changed. 7. 1 understand portions of Bill 121 are also designed to address standards of operations including meeting health, safety, and construction code requirements and quiet hours. However,the majority of the solutions presented in Bill 121 are misdirected or misplaced. o requiring more restrictive quiet hours for TARS? if Councilperson Kimball did her due diligence she would discover when comparing complaints and reports it would be significantly higher against LTR and private homeowners than the insignificant number produced by TARS. o requiring health, safety and construction codes enforced We all know but never talk about the majority of private homes and their LTR on this island are in severe violation of these codes.