{"id":13004,"date":"2022-12-02T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:28:22","slug":"santa-fe-realtors-promote-diverse-housing-options-in-housing-strapped-region-2-3-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-2-4-2-2-3-2-4-2-2-3-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/homepage\/success-story\/mcrar-advocacy1222","title":{"rendered":"Mid Carolina Regional Association of REALTORS\u00ae Defeat Short-Term Rental Ordinance with Robust Call For Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina is not only a legendary golf destination; the region\u2019s natural beauty draws admirers to such an extent that tourism is the main source of revenue for the village and surrounding Moore County communities. \u00a0So, when the Pinehurst Village Council attempted to severely regulate the thriving vacation rental industry earlier this year, the Mid-Carolina Region Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/sup> (MCRAR) acted decisively.\u00a0 Launching a Call For Action through the REALTOR\u00ae<\/sup> Party\u2019s Advocacy Everywhere<\/a> program, they sent a clear message from the community that resulted in a re-thinking of the proposed restrictions, saving several hundred short-term rentals from closure and staving off a ban on new vacation rental properties, as well as safe-guarding an important revenue stream for the village.<\/p>\n

The REALTORS\u00ae<\/sup> opposed the proposed regulations on three grounds:\u00a0 the negative impact they would have on tourism; the unjust limitation of private property rights; and the fact that many of the reasons posed for regulating short-term rentals \u2013 such as noise and trash can issues \u2013 were already addressed by existing village ordinances.<\/p>\n

Jake Sutherland, the 2022 MCRAR\u00a0President, declares, \u201cI am proud to say the members of MCRAR\u00a0stood up and protected the rights of all the 17,000+ residents of Pinehurst, a heavily marketed resort community.\u00a0 It all boils down to private property rights,\u201d he explains; \u201cas a community and a REALTOR\u00ae<\/sup> association, we grew an alliance to defend them. \u00a0Whether residents support vacation rentals or not, they all have property rights,\u00a0which include the right to rent as well as the right to quiet enjoyment of their property. \u00a0We were not advocating solely for vacation rentals; we were lobbying to retain property rights for all residents who would have been impacted by such a regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

To leverage its lobbying power, MCRAR turned to the REALTOR\u00ae<\/sup> Party\u2019s Advocacy Everywhere program. \u00a0The resulting Call For Action was both member- and consumer-facing, encouraging residents of Pinehurst to contact the mayor and members of the Village Council voicing support for short-term rentals in their resort community.\u00a0 Over the course of two days, a whopping 18% of recipients responded.\u00a0 As Sutherland reports, although an all-out ban on vacation rentals was discussed and debated, what was eventually passed was much less extreme, allowing existing short-term rentals to remain with a conditional use permit, and requiring development permits for new STRs. \u00a0\u201cIn acting as a liaison\u00a0to local government by sending the mayor and the Village Council countless emails and verifiable data, the REALTOR\u00ae <\/sup>Party was instrumental in the outcome,\u201d he says. \u00a0\u201cOur members\u2019 voices and concerns\u00a0were heard through our\u00a0Call For Action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were lots of sighs released,\u201d adds William Bradford, Government Affairs Director of the Mid Carolina Regional Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/sup>.\u00a0 \u201cTourism is a very big driver of the local economy, and many of our members in Pinehurst have skin in the game as property managers.\u00a0 Beyond the fundamental issue of property rights, they were relieved that their businesses would not be negatively impacted.\u201d\u00a0 He credits the defeat of the proposed legislation to the energetic advocacy of local REALTORS\u00ae<\/sup> who attended meetings and reached out to their elected officials, as well as the Call For Action: \u201cThe system worked wonderfully and was a great tool for spreading the word about the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about how the Mid Carolina Regional Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/sup> is defending private property rights in Pinehurst and beyond, contact Government Affairs Director William Bradford at wbradford@ncrealtors.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tapping into the REALTOR\u00ae Party\u2019s Advocacy Everywhere program, the Mid Carolina Regional Association of REALTORS\u00ae encouraged its members and residents of Pinehurst, NC to oppose proposed short-term rental regulations that would have impaired the popular destination\u2019s thriving tourist industry and weakened private property rights.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,296],"tags":[655,397,708],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-us","category-success-stories","category-success-story","tag-advocacy-everywhere","tag-north-carolina","tag-short-term-rentals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}