HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0739.096 2016-2018From: AOL Account D( I ®�
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Bill Number 108
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:38:22 PM
Dear Council,
I currently live in a gated residential community with an existing HOA and 18 homes. Our
community has had transient rentals for the past six years and the result has been devastating to the
neighborhood. We went from a neighborhood of 7 homes with full time residents to 3 homes with
full time residents. The number of transient rentals in the last six years has gone from 1 to 8 in a
community of 18 homes. We have to have a 75% majority to change the CC&Rs and with the
number of transient rentals invading our community it is impossible to get the votes yet our CC&Rs
state that you "can rent from time to time" and multiple attornies have stated that it is too vague
and we have to allow transient rentals even though we are zoned residential.
The 3 full time residents are stuck with.
• having people knock on doors at all hours of the day and night asking for the gate code,t'7'
• kids under the age of 6 swimming unsupervised,;
• taking garbage out of the yard debris bin,
• cars parked everywhere including the lawn,
• arguments in the middle of the night,
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• a constant flow of questions in regards to where the garbage canister is and anything else
pertaining to the premises,
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• and the list goes on.
All of the transient rental owners in our neighborhood do not live on the island, some have property
managers some do not, either way the renters go to the nearest homeowner because it is easier
than calling the property manager or the owner of the property.
The increased expense that the community must bare in regards to security and safety are
increasing our homeowner dues and adding a burden to an already overworked police department.
If we have to live with transient rentals, I think every community should be able to assess the
transient rentals for the additional cost of services whether their CC&Rs allow it or not.
I would like to see more long term rentals. It gives people who reside here a home. Last time I
checked we have a housing shortage. The more transient rentals are allowed, the less housing there
is for people who live here. An example is Queenstown, NZ where employers are buying houses to
house their employees because everyone who owns property has converted the rental to transient
rentals. The council should look into changing or revamping the long term rental laws and make it
more desirable to rent longterm rather than transient.
I would like to see the government get their share of the taxes. Maybe offer a reward of some kind.
Put a program together that you can put in an address and see if the house is paying transient yenta
taxes oris even set up with valid taxid. Write a program that takes Vrbo and Airbnb addresses and
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ties them back to the tax department — with the data available today all it would take is a good data
analyst and a programmer.
I am also in favor of having transient rentals on properties where the resident lives. It is a great way
for the residents to earn extra money and solves a lot of any communities with CC&Rs.
I continue to support the council in their efforts to rein in the issues.
Thank you.
Mary Stupi
75-6138 Alii Drive House 13
Kailua Kona, HI 96740
From: John
To: Council Testimony
Subject: SB108
Date: Sunday, May 20, 2018 6:42:22 PM
My wife and I each fell in love with Hawaii after our first visit so
much so that we decided to get married in Kauai. Since then it has been
our dream to one day live in Hawaii and eventually retire there. Toward
that end, I used my Independent Retirement Account to buy a house in
Pahoa as an investment that would provide us an income during
retirement. After hearing so many derogatory things about problems with
long term tenants, including the refusal of the Hawaii County Sheriff to
evict non-paying tenants, we decided to make the house available for
transient accommodations since we were able to purchase the house fully
furnished. I used an additional amount of my retirement funds to
purchase a house we can live in. It had been a vacation rental and we
decided to continue to make it available for that purpose until we could
liquidate our possessions in Los Angeles and move. Since we admired the
condition of the house we contracted with the same property manager,
Hawaii Life, to manage both properties. As they required, we applied
for and received TA and GE numbers for both properties. The area
containing our two homes has long ago been apportioned into Hawaiian
Beaches and Hawaiian Shores subdivisions but we now find they are still
zoned A -1A, agricultural, which seems to be specifically excluded by the
current version of SB 108. Without the income from the first house we
would not be able to live in Hawaii and pay the mortgage on the second
house on my retirement income.
We believe the Hawaii State Legislature should instead turn their
efforts toward improving enforcement of tenant occupancy laws and
provide landlords recourse against tenants who turn into squatters and
Sheriffs who refuse to evict them. People in retirement can't afford to
have their supplemental income interrupted by tenants who refuse to
pay. It should also be taking steps to increase the source of General
Excise and Transient Accommodations tax revenues instead of limiting
them in light of the economic losses resulting from the current volcanic
activity.
Much of Puna is agricultural and with the eruptions in Puna, future
tourists will want to stay somewhere they can conveniently visit the
eruption areas once it is safe. This would bring much needed tourist
income and tax revenue to the area that will be eliminated by the
current provisions of SB 108.
John Szura and Blanche Ramirez
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