I have been reading with interest the debate about masks for schoolchildren in Conway. I love that so many people are passionate about their "rights" and "freedoms" to make choices about their own children.
I don't think this town realizes what it is doing to our community. By allowing all the STR's, our local families can't grow. The normal progression of moving out on your own as a young adult and then starting a family of your own is not a possibility for our young adult locals who grew up here. There is no housing for that to happen. Our young generation are leaving. But they happen to be a huge part of our work force here in the Valley. Once upon a time you could rent a home at an affordable price, work hard then buy your own home. That is now gone. Every conceivable space is now a STR. Of course there should be some STR's but the number should be limited. I also ask how many STR's actually pay Rooms & Meals Tax? After all, all these folks are using our roads, areas and enjoying tax free shopping. People have mentioned that having less STR's will make the house cleaners unemployed? Look no further than just about any business on the strip! Not to mention the new businesses yet to open? Conway, in years to come will end up being a bunch of empty buildings from failed businesses that can't staff properly to attend to the massive crowds that now have access. There's only a few thousand of us, to service millions of entitled guests that expect top notch service.
The difference is that you exercising your "right" to do what you want with your property is detrimental to the community as a whole and to anyone who can't afford a home. Not only are you and people like you the direct cause of skyrocketing real estate prices because you think you have the "right" to come in and snatch up property just to rent it out to other out-of-staters like you, you also leave the community worse than you found it with your awful "guests" who treat the state where I live and work like it is their own personal playground.
Absolutely! Us locals aren't on vacation. Yet we are now subject to being in amongst thoes who wish to enjoy a hard earned vacation. We now are subjected to constant loud parties, large crowds and excess trash that gets left behind. When some folks are on vacation away from home, unfortunately they don't treat the area the same way they would treat their own homes or communities. The owners of these STR's are not here to witness what it is like or the behavior displayed. The only care they have is for the money to be made. It's not a good mix.
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I don't think this town realizes what it is doing to our community. By allowing all the STR's, our local families can't grow. The normal progression of moving out on your own as a young adult and then starting a family of your own is not a possibility for our young adult locals who grew up here. There is no housing for that to happen. Our young generation are leaving. But they happen to be a huge part of our work force here in the Valley. Once upon a time you could rent a home at an affordable price, work hard then buy your own home. That is now gone. Every conceivable space is now a STR. Of course there should be some STR's but the number should be limited. I also ask how many STR's actually pay Rooms & Meals Tax? After all, all these folks are using our roads, areas and enjoying tax free shopping. People have mentioned that having less STR's will make the house cleaners unemployed? Look no further than just about any business on the strip! Not to mention the new businesses yet to open? Conway, in years to come will end up being a bunch of empty buildings from failed businesses that can't staff properly to attend to the massive crowds that now have access. There's only a few thousand of us, to service millions of entitled guests that expect top notch service.
The difference is that you exercising your "right" to do what you want with your property is detrimental to the community as a whole and to anyone who can't afford a home. Not only are you and people like you the direct cause of skyrocketing real estate prices because you think you have the "right" to come in and snatch up property just to rent it out to other out-of-staters like you, you also leave the community worse than you found it with your awful "guests" who treat the state where I live and work like it is their own personal playground.
Absolutely! Us locals aren't on vacation. Yet we are now subject to being in amongst thoes who wish to enjoy a hard earned vacation. We now are subjected to constant loud parties, large crowds and excess trash that gets left behind. When some folks are on vacation away from home, unfortunately they don't treat the area the same way they would treat their own homes or communities. The owners of these STR's are not here to witness what it is like or the behavior displayed. The only care they have is for the money to be made. It's not a good mix.
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