The thing about city people buying summer houses out here

[TreasonousBastard]

is well known, and renting for a weekend has its backlashes, but I just heard about cheap summer scumbags renting out their pools for an afternoon.

Meanwhile, a bunch of us can't find a place to live.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. There was a story on my local news recently

About a woman who lives in the city in a neighborhood with other homes and she was renting out her pool. Neighbors complained about the constant noise of people partying and parked cars up and down the street at all hours. I think they took her to court but a decision has yet to be made.
Is this a thing now? Renting out your pool?

[MissB]

2. Yes it is a thing

There is an equivalent to Airbnb for pools.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Pool BlubnBlub?

[Auggie]

3. Is this a thing? Oh yeah ...

Your question got me curious. So I searched and found something called simply.com

Story here:
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/21/swimply-side-hustle-making-money-renting-backyard-pool-to-strangers.html

[GPV]

4. Short term rentals are becoming a real problem

[leftieNanner]

6. My friend sold her house in Sedona for that reason

Her neighborhood had become a VRBO haven. Nobody actually lived there. She made a bundle on the house. Moved to Colorado.

[claudette]

7. Where?

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Eastern Long Island. Probably started in East Hampton but...

now damn near everywhere. One source said 40 percent of homes here are just part time.

[Maraya1969]

8. It's not just here. I am trying to find a place in Portugal and it is really difficult

I want to be in the hilly area which is sparsely populated. And I found out that you cannot build on a piece of property unless it has a "ruin" on it. IOW they are trying to stop urban sprawl so they only want people to buy on land that was previously built on. Most of these "houses" are a mess.


Then when I was in Villa Nova de Millfontes, which is right on the water everyone I spoke to told me there was no vacancies. And yet there were tons of apartment houses. But someone told me that people keep these vacant so they have their summer place.

[PJMcK]

9. Where are you? (n/t)

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Eastern Long Island.

[PJMcK]

16. Oh, yeah

That’s tough territory.

I lived in Glen Cove for 20 years and the same thing is happening on the “Gold Coast.”

[miyazaki]

10. Hell, you can rent your backyard for camping now.

[EarthFirst]

11. Pools, treehouses, vans...

Tent sites in your backyard even!

[TreasonousBastard]

14. It seems privacy only counts when you can make a buck off it.

[edisdead]

15. scumbags renting out their pools?

That’s an issue?