A turnkey property, great design and killer pics to bump your Instagram page — that’s all it takes to launch a successful Airbnb rental, right? If you think it’s that easy, prepare yourself. Towns throughout the region have been enacting laws that regulate Short Term Rentals (STRs), and some are tough enough to change the whole trajectory of your plans.
Here we take a look at a few examples of commonly enacted STR regulations in our area.
Read MoreThe doom and gloom of national headlines on the topic of real estate justify the expectation that the real estate market should be tanking. But so far prices have largely held in, thanks to fundamental underpinnings to The Catskills and Hudson Valley economy that have shifted in recent years, most obviously during the pandemic. It’s worth exploring these factors because buyer expectations of a bubble burst may be misplaced or over-estimated.
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