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fair, or improve our standards. If we do not succeed in either of these methods, we get kicked <br /> off the platform, never allowed to do business with them again. Now, why on earth do we need <br /> any more incentive to do a good job? Obviously the vast majority of hosts want to provide a <br /> safe and beautiful experience for our guests anyway even without the threat of consequence, <br /> but since this bill is written in such black and white, policing, regulatory language- maybe that <br /> is all you out there understand. AirBnB is a self cleaning oven. If we don't get good reviews, we <br /> don't get business. If we don't get business, we go out of business. It is rather simple. But here <br /> is this needless Bill 121 suggesting we as hosts need another blade to our necks, another <br /> hoop to jump through. Is this really how the Big Island operates these days? <br /> Our island is so different from one shore to the other, from the Mauna to the sea. Our <br /> island celebrates this diversity. How is a blanket Bill, written for every zone and district to <br /> conform to intelligent in any fashion? How can anyone with a heart or the smallest <br /> understanding of economics think this is good for us? We are not Oahu. We are not the <br /> mainland. We don't have to adopt everything they do. We can pass something truly original <br /> down to the next generation. But this Bill? The legacy of this Bill will be putting families, <br /> struggling families out of business, and in some cases, perhaps more than I want to even <br /> consider- will be forced to move. We in Lower Puna are somehow still in business after the <br /> eruption while so many of our neighbors had it worse. We still still operating short term rentals <br /> on the Big Island are somehow still in business after a pandemic and travel lockdown while so <br /> many others had it worse. We are somehow still in business with 5 dollar gas prices and 7 <br /> dollar 2x4's and 12 dollar cartons of eggs, while so many others have it worse. But if you allow <br /> this bill to pass, you will be achieving what none of those hardships could. You will put us out <br /> of business. You will shut us down. <br /> Short term rentals on the Big Island create so many jobs, bring in so much tax revenue, <br /> and have such a close to zero complaint rate that if it were a program that Ashley or Heather <br /> had come up with they would be running for reelection based on its success. You know this <br /> and I know this. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Well this bill won't fix anything, it'll just make <br /> more people broke. <br /> Thank you for your time. <br /> Aloha <br /> Jason de Bruyn <br /> 15-2714 Pahoa Village Road Unit H1 #208 <br /> Pahoa, HI 96778 <br /> Pawpawpfr@gmail.com <br />