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Say NO... to ending Vacation Rentals in Big Bear Valley...keep Big Bear a year-round resort destination.
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Theodore Buckley
OK, long time part-timer here. So, am I missing something? BB did just fine for decades when there were NO airbnbs, so why won’t it do fine again when the number of airbnbs are just reduced?
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Dee Levey
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Theodore Buckley short term rental caps are completely normal in most all resort communities and work successfully.
Unfortunately our city officials chose not to implement a cap, and continued, and still continues,to hand out vacation rental licenses like candy. It's too late at this point to implement a cap that would instantly solve the rental problem.
Our city officials need to step up and provide affordable long term rental housing for full time renters like myself,and many others who live and work up here and keep this mountain operating.
There are finance programs that will financially assist our city officials in building affordable full time housing. Tahoe is currently using the assistance funding and building affordable housing,no excuse in the world why our city is not doing the same in an attempt to resolve the problem they consciously created.
Maybe instead of being divided and misled,the residents of Big Bear Lake should come together and insist that their city officials do their job🤔just a thought.
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Shawn Early
Dee Levey for real....45 yr.res
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Dee Levey
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Shawn Early I'm not sure what you mean by for real? And I've only been up here working and renting for going on 20 years. I've been in the property management field for over 40 years and I've spent most of my life either living in and or working in some of the largest Resort communities in California. so I'm only speaking from my personal experience and research, as well as what I've experienced with how things work up here via the city officials.
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Shawn Early
Dee Levey I was agreeing with you.....they let these strs' get out of control...now I'm not sure how this will pan out, but the housing issue MUST be addressed...i own my home , but have watched many friends lose their home and regretfully leave town..p.s. I also work in this industry...
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Dee Levey
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Shawn Early on one hand it's absolutely crazy what the city officials have allowed to happen. and you and I both know it has nothing to do with anything other than greed on their part.
On the other hand it's heartbreaking watching all these families and workers lose their homes and have to move off the mountain which in turn has left numerous businesses up here including the Resort's short-handed.
And what strikes me as very odd, but par for the course, is you and I and many other residents see exactly what's going on yet our city officials continue to sit in their chairs staring off into space like they have no clue😂😂😂
it's maddening at best. and then on top of all this we have this insane division that has been unnecessarily created within our community buy one individual who sits in a City Council seat and since day one has made it his mission play the community of Big Bear Lake for a bunch of fools. while in fact he is purposely creating a division to keep everybody in our community fighting with each other so that they're not really paying attention to what's actually going on😮 it's the craziest thing I've seen in my lifetime other than Jim Jones and the drinking of the Kool-Aid and Charles Manson and Helter Skelter what's happening in Big Bear Lake is if nothing else Insanity at its finest. Now we've made the news because of what this guy is doing and yet there is still a handful of people that follow him like Blind Mice and continue to create unnecessary chaos in a community where it's not even necessary.
If we would all relax and take a deep breath, do a little research and by that I mean real research and wake up. we need to come together not be divided and we certainly don't need to allow some man who can't even figure out where he actually lives to divide us😂
I don't like thinking about the future because I have a feeling the city officials are going to do everything in their power to avoid taking their responsibilities in all this and start stepping up and fixing the problem which they can easily do as I mentioned in an earlier response Tahoe is doing what needs to be done to correct this type of situation so there's no excuse in the world why Big Bear Lake isn't doing the exact same thing. but instead even today our city officials continue to hand out vacation rental licensing.
Maybe all these residents that are busy trying to fight each other should come together and actually stand up to the city officials and make them do their job and fix this mess before it truly becomes unfixable😢 one positive thing I'm watching our City Council people, our mayor, and City attorney,and city manager actually coming together quickly to try to purge Alan Lee from the city council before he does more damage. and the faster they do that the better for every single one of us who live up here no matter what side of the fence we may be on because that guy is playing a lot of people for fools and he's doing quite a good job of it sadly.😢
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Shawn Early
Dee Levey my heart breaks for what this town is becoming....many resorts have found a way to cap the strs'... The only thing there is no shortage of up here now is help wanted signs
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Rebecca Jo Gaines
Theodore Buckley thank you. It was perfect for everyone.
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Dee Levey
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Theodore Buckley Big Bear has always had vacation rentals at least for the last 20 years that I'm aware of or I wouldn't have been up here at all because I work in the property management industry and I manage full-time and short-term rentals.
the difference now is Airbnb has become such a large venue that everyone who owns vacation rentals as well as the brick-and-mortar management businesses are using Airbnb. so they stand out like a sore thumb with the overabundance of vacation rentals we have up here right now thanks to our city officials handing out vacation rental licensing like candy.
Prior to Airbnb being implemented we all did our own advertising or we used GoDs
venues like VRBO.
but Airbnb blew up and they blew up in a big way and the sad part about that is even though they're everywhere they very rarely defend the property owners and they always take the side of the guest no matter how rude, no matter how destructive, no matter how many rules they break Airbnb always sides with the guests and one would think these vacation rental owners would see this and do something about it. but apparently the exposure means more to them then doing the right thing or the five star super host rating overshadows good property ownership and self respect. I personally do not like Airbnb but if that's what my clients use then I have to go along with the program.
But Airbnb is not the problem up here Airbnb is simply a venue people advertise on. We need to start focusing on where the real problem is and put all this negative and positive energy into addressing those responsible for it and insisting they do their job and remedy the situation or vote them out of their position and put someone in the position that knows what the hell they're doing and cares about the community over how much money they can stuff in their own Pockets at the expense of the community.
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Rebecca Jo Gaines
Dee Levey I truly hope that they are voted out in 2022.
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Dee Levey
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I just wanted to thank everybody in this group for treating each other with respect and being kind to one another no matter what side of the issue they may or may not be on.
It's tough when things like this happen in a community and people are misled by an individual they trusted, especially an individual who is on our city council and led us all to believe that he had our best interest at heart. And unfortunately because of the actions of this individual and his handful of followers within the citizens initiative group things have been Twisted so badly that unless you do hours upon hours of research it's difficult to dig through all the BS and get to the truth of the matter. So a huge thank you to everyone for being respectful and kind.
you guys are awesome💜💜💜
