Not just freeloaders here then ...
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bobandjanie
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I wonder if they will do the same with motorhomes as they are doing to us with tourist rentals, restrictions to 10 day's wanting to know everything about the clients it's getting ridiculous, yes we do have too many tourists, but reducing their stay doesn't stop them coming. 
Bob.
Bob.
Wherever tourism is popular there will be conflicting views on how much tourism is desirable it's the same around here a lot of locals would like house prices to beat lower most jobs are pretty poorly paid and the demand for property for tourism increases prices. On the other hand 30 miles up the coast there's a lot less tourism and very few jobs at all! I think most would agree that an undesirable part of tourism is second homes that are empty most of the year. On the campsites in Spain it's probably less contentious that increased tourism in that form affects property prices.
To give you some idea how popular Whitby is we have 24 bookings this year so far although a lot are long weekends and mid week breaks not full weeks and that's with most of the peak season still available people generally book two to three months ahead.
To give you some idea how popular Whitby is we have 24 bookings this year so far although a lot are long weekends and mid week breaks not full weeks and that's with most of the peak season still available people generally book two to three months ahead.
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I wonder if they will do the same with motorhomes as they are doing to us with tourist rentals, restrictions to 10 day's wanting to know everything about the clients it's getting ridiculous, yes we do have too many tourists, but reducing their stay doesn't stop them coming.
Bob
You talking about accommodation rental or cars?
If accommodation do the authorities not realise that most air charters operate on a weekly basis from some airports, and not many people fly to Spain for one week.
bobandjanie
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Yes accommodation rentals up to 10 nights on the tourist licence, you can do a short term rental contract 11 nights or over but its not going to be easy and more paperwork this link explains it, we have lots of bookings this year, and can work round the system, but if we continue we don't know, the property market has gone bonkers and our valuation was good, but it would mean finding somewhere else in a cheaper area, we have already cut our start date so we can enjoy our time here. I'm 70 this year it's our only home so tempting 
we will decide when we come home things could change by then. 
Bob.
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we will decide when we come home things could change by then. Bob.
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Our in laws rent a flat in Edinburgh as a holiday let the rules there have tightened up a lot. I think it's going to be happening everywhere that's seen as a tourism hotspotYes accommodation rentals up to 10 nights on the tourist licence, you can do a short term rental contract 11 nights or over but its not going to be easy and more paperwork this link explains it, we have lots of bookings this year, and can work round the system, but if we continue we don't know, the property market has gone bonkers and our valuation was good, but it would mean finding somewhere else in a cheaper area, we have already cut our start date so we can enjoy our time here. I'm 70 this year it's our only home so tempting
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bobandjanie
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I think their hopeful that people that can't get the tourist licence which you also need to do the 11 or more nights contract, 
( we are OK being ground floor) will be pushed into long term rentals to help with the local residents housing problems.
But unfortunately this area is very expensive and many people that own property leave them empty unless the family are using them.
It's nothing new all through life people can't afford to buy a property in the area they lived in, it's like when we went from Hertfordshire to sleepy Suffolk.
The locals moaning about all the outsider buying holiday homes and pushing the price up I can understand .......but in our case we moved for a better life for us and our girls, a detached house in the country a slower pace in life and our girl have ofter thanked us for taking them there, they had far more freedom . 
It was a reminder going back visiting friends with them saying my God I'm glad we don't live here.
For us it was going back in time, obviously not like that now things move on.
Even in Suffolk
It did take a while before your excepted into the village, and once that happens it's a nightmare you have to pick your time to work in the front garden everyone stops to talk or want to help or you spend the day waving as they drive passed tooting.
A twenty minute walk with our dog could take hours.
Locals living in a popular holiday area is always going to be expensive/ difficult if buying finding affordable rental properties even more, they will have to do what everyone else did, move away from the coast and save their euros.
Over the last couple of years we have had Spanish and Dutch that stay with us trying to buy our apartment, so it's not something new we have been looking.
That still won't help with stopping tourists.
Bob.
( we are OK being ground floor) will be pushed into long term rentals to help with the local residents housing problems.
But unfortunately this area is very expensive and many people that own property leave them empty unless the family are using them.
It's nothing new all through life people can't afford to buy a property in the area they lived in, it's like when we went from Hertfordshire to sleepy Suffolk.
The locals moaning about all the outsider buying holiday homes and pushing the price up
I can understand .......but in our case we moved for a better life for us and our girls, a detached house in the country a slower pace in life and our girl have ofter thanked us for taking them there, they had far more freedom . It was a reminder going back visiting friends with them saying my God I'm glad we don't live here.
For us it was going back in time, obviously not like that now things move on.
Even in Suffolk
It did take a while before your excepted into the village, and once that happens it's a nightmare you have to pick your time to work in the front garden everyone stops to talk or want to help or you spend the day waving as they drive passed tooting.
A twenty minute walk with our dog could take hours.
Locals living in a popular holiday area is always going to be expensive/ difficult if buying finding affordable rental properties even more, they will have to do what everyone else did, move away from the coast and save their euros.
Over the last couple of years we have had Spanish and Dutch that stay with us trying to buy our apartment, so it's not something new we have been looking.
That still won't help with stopping tourists.
Bob.We had two holiday lets buy turned one into residential just before COVID still got the same tennant in there now he's Romanian and a welder at the boatyard just opposite. As I said I think the bigger problem is privately owned holiday property that's empty almost all year around.I think their hopeful that people that can't get the tourist licence which you also need to do the 11 or more nights contract,
But unfortunately this area is very expensive and many people that own property leave them empty unless the family are using them.
It's nothing new all through life people can't afford to buy a property in the area they lived in, it's like when we went from Hertfordshire to sleepy Suffolk.
The locals moaning about all the outsider buying holiday homes and pushing the price up
It was a reminder going back visiting friends with them saying my God I'm glad we don't live here.
For us it was going back in time, obviously not like that now things move on.
Even in Suffolk
It did take a while before your excepted into the village, and once that happens it's a nightmare you have to pick your time to work in the front garden everyone stops to talk or want to help or you spend the day waving as they drive passed tooting.
A twenty minute walk with our dog could take hours.
Locals living in a popular holiday area is always going to be expensive/ difficult if buying finding affordable rental properties even more so
, they will have to do what everyone else did, move away from the coast and save their euros.
Over the last couple of years we have had Spanish and Dutch that stay with us trying to buy our apartment, so it's not something new we have been looking.
That still won't help with stopping tourists.
bobandjanie
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Quite agree but most here are used by family and friends, a lot of people are put off long-term rental not just because they earn more with tourist but they then can't use it themselves also the long term renters have far to many rights and Quite often you can't get them out without good reasoning, they are also protected on price increases.
But also if something breaks or needs replacing they want it done now.
We wouldn't do long term because it's our home we live in it, we have been renting out for 9 years, we have many repeat clients some we have met and with WhatsApp and Facebook you feel you know them, so you could class them as friends, you don't need to have any licence or declare any information and let them stay for free.
Maybe they might just gift you something for being so kind. Bob
But also if something breaks or needs replacing they want it done now.
We wouldn't do long term because it's our home we live in it, we have been renting out for 9 years, we have many repeat clients some we have met and with WhatsApp and Facebook you feel you know them, so you could class them as friends, you don't need to have any licence or declare any information and let them stay for free.
Maybe they might just gift you something for being so kind. Bob
bobandjanie
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Anyway getting back to Tourist I wonder if the forever problem with campsites being full that they start this nonsense. Campsites after all they are also for tourist and also far too many campers, will they restrict your stay give you a permit only if you have a placement and not let you enter the country without one. 
After all it's far too many tourists they are targeting, the world's gone mad.
Bob.
After all it's far too many tourists they are targeting, the world's gone mad.
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