Wisniewski: Reader says ‘no’ to short term rentals in Sun City
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This is my response to Ms. Mary Ann Moore (“Resident offers suggestion for short term rentals,” Sun City Independent, March 31, 2021) on her suggestion to use an owned home in Sun City to rent out to roomers.
No, no and more no!
We the homeowners who saved our money, bought into a 55-and-older retirement community, we do not want to see our neighborhoods and homes being taken over by people using there homes to house “roomers” in their home. This is exactly what respectable homeowners in here are very upset about!
Sun City West would not tolerate, Sun City Grand would not tolerate and we will not tolerate.
It is people like you who think they can obstruct the entire intention of our community, which to well earned people who have worked many hard years, saved their money and now want to live a clean, quiet and, yes, structured life in a well advertised 55-and-older community. We want the CCRs, we want rules, we want to pay HOA dues. That is why we bought into Sun City!
This is not the inner city. We are not running a halfway house, or a means for you to earn income off of people who cannot pay rent or buy a home on their own.
The problem that has been stated in many of the newspaper issues in the last several years is one of concern around here because of exactly people like you who are wanting to tear down the initial intent of the community.
You obviously don’t care about the rights of people who want to live and pay for a quiet situation, you feel it is no problem to have 3-4 adult people living in a 1,400-square-foot home. You see five automobiles being parked all over the place in and around not only single family homes, but condos over here in Sun City as well.
Something has to be done, addressed, and I think SCHOA and the Sun City board is going to have to get some strong legal advice now on how to stop violators like yourself to thinking you can use small retirement housing units to house more people then intended and using it as a form of profit for yourself.
Again, this is not a Section 8 housing community, and if you cannot live by the legal paperwork that you signed when you purchased at your title company, you should not be living in here, and you should be legally liable for violating the rules of the community.
I am sick and tired of this going on and good people who own their homes here are not going to stand for this.
