As far as risk, about a year and half ago, Oahu passed Bill 89, which was made to crack down on all the illegal rentals in residential areas.

Local government just got involved by taxing Short terms and are starting to crack down on "Ag Shacks" (student rentals in neighborhoods).

We'll see if it makes a difference though, the way the city council is talking, they want to crack down.

Biggest curiosity regarding all of this is how they intend to crack down on illegal operators.

For your understanding, the City is beginning to crack down on STRs. 

Keep in mind that this may change in the coming years because of a combination of all of the new properties hitting the market, the speculation tax and the crack down on Airbnb’s in the area.

Ie...would there be a crackdown on 6 month, 12 month+ or does this appear to be a crackdown of the VRBO, Airbnb type of property usage?

The City of Austin has entered into a pilot contract with Seattle-based company, Host Compliance, to provide data on short-term rentals in the city. A Code Department memo issued July 19 this year reports more than 10...

Albritton said the first phase of the crackdown - going after those people involved in getting fraudulent loans - ends in October.

That's what the IRS is trying to crack down on, poorly informed people thinking they can have access to their retirement funds for 60 days instead of it being time to receive a check and deposit it at a new custodian, which the IRS intended.