Short Term Vacation Rental Application Process
Aloha fellow Villages at Mauna Lani owners:
Laura Partridge asked if I could write an article on a current and relevant real estate subject for our Villages Newsletter. I decided to write a few words of wisdom on the new Short Term Vacation Rental (STVR) registration process that is now required of all owners who are currently vacation renting their properties or are seeking approval to do so via the County of Hawaii’s new STVR approval process. I just assisted my client’s successful completion and submittal of their applications for 2 Villages homes this week to the County of Hawaii Planning Department. For those of you not vacation renting your homes, congratulations as you will avoid a somewhat tricky and time consuming process.
For the sake of this article I will comment only on typical units in our Villages community which is located in “V” (resort) zoning where vacation rental is allowed and vacation rental is not precluded by our Villages rules and regulations.
Here is a link to the County Site if you would lik...