It's troublesome and misleading to compare the rentals in Portland and Boston to those in Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor without first deducting the rentals that are not year round. Most or all rentals in places like Boston and Portland are year round. Few in Mount Desert, Tremont or Southwest Harbor are. If you want to rent in those towns in January, your choices are very limited. Places like Boston do not have the history of summer cabins and cottages and lakeside summer homes that MDI has. It is truly comparing apples to oranges for effect. If the goal is to actually solve the rental related problems in these towns then it's critical to avoid the current trend of misinformation and look at the data carefully and present the facts. It would be very interesting to know the number of year round rentals in these towns.
Lincoln, sorry when you said Boston it made me think of Portland OR as another large city. It would be really interesting to compare Portland ME to here though the off season would be more like Bar Harbor than Tremont. I don't know if there is any easy way to identify what is year round from the online listings other than the calendar in each one. I don't think it's useful to compare here to places like Boston as it is really different in every way. Do you know if any data exists to easily identify year round? I think it would be very helpful for the towns to know not just the total but which are year round vacation rentals. Does the data you look at like AirDNA identify which are actually being rented? Another problem with the numbers on sites like VRBO is that there is no cost to keep a listing up indefinitely and just block out the calendar if you are not currently renting.
About Profit People Land Last, APPLL , is causing our taxes to go up because of pure greed. Not one person involved with the APPLL is or will be poor when ships become limited to 1000 people a day. Tourists who came and spent summers here can't stand the hordes, townies avoid it, island neighboring towns all avoid it... When will it end?
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It's troublesome and misleading to compare the rentals in Portland and Boston to those in Mount Desert, Tremont and Southwest Harbor without first deducting the rentals that are not year round. Most or all rentals in places like Boston and Portland are year round. Few in Mount Desert, Tremont or Southwest Harbor are. If you want to rent in those towns in January, your choices are very limited. Places like Boston do not have the history of summer cabins and cottages and lakeside summer homes that MDI has. It is truly comparing apples to oranges for effect. If the goal is to actually solve the rental related problems in these towns then it's critical to avoid the current trend of misinformation and look at the data carefully and present the facts. It would be very interesting to know the number of year round rentals in these towns.
You possess data that shows most of Portland's rental is year-round?
Lincoln, sorry when you said Boston it made me think of Portland OR as another large city. It would be really interesting to compare Portland ME to here though the off season would be more like Bar Harbor than Tremont. I don't know if there is any easy way to identify what is year round from the online listings other than the calendar in each one. I don't think it's useful to compare here to places like Boston as it is really different in every way. Do you know if any data exists to easily identify year round? I think it would be very helpful for the towns to know not just the total but which are year round vacation rentals. Does the data you look at like AirDNA identify which are actually being rented? Another problem with the numbers on sites like VRBO is that there is no cost to keep a listing up indefinitely and just block out the calendar if you are not currently renting.
Really, you thought I was referring to Portland, Oregon? Really?
About Profit People Land Last, APPLL , is causing our taxes to go up because of pure greed. Not one person involved with the APPLL is or will be poor when ships become limited to 1000 people a day. Tourists who came and spent summers here can't stand the hordes, townies avoid it, island neighboring towns all avoid it... When will it end?