April Messer

The reason this bill should not pass is mainly how it will negatively affect more communities financially. If you are going to tax people more that bring travelers into our communities to help support tourism and the overall infrastructure ..why should they be penalized? What will happen is people who have these short term rentals will sell because they won't be able to afford to pay the taxes. Then this will just bring real empty homes to the area. It will be a second, third and fourth homes and the property will sit EMPTY and won't bring in any tourism money to the community. Have you ever been on a lake in your community and you look and never see anyone at one at these homes? Well it is some rich persons home and they only use it 1-2x per year!!! Is that what we want??? Let people enjoy renting a home that is more affordable then a hotel and then they can enjoy all these different communities! Don't tax the owner more for helping the community... I live in Newbury, NH. It is known for skiing, boating, fishing, hiking and hunting. We are an outdoor paradise and it is hard to afford a home in this region so why not let people come and enjoy it while they help support the local businesses. Don't raise taxes to the owners who shares there homes with people so they can spend their $ in all these communities!