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I'm killed Brown.

A lot of local governments don't care for short-term rentals, that's Air B&B and the

like.

Jarrett Scorup of the Mackinaw Center details the Michigan experience with state

power versus local power with homeowners caught in the middle.

I used to live in Louisville, Kentucky, just inside Louisville proper, and there was a candidate running for office and one of his main platform planks running for city council was I'm going to ban short term rentals and he lived in a very wealthy neighborhood, one of the wealthiest in the state.

And that was a campaign plank.

He did not win, but it is notable to me that this is an issue that a lot of busy bodies really care about, which is preventing people from using their homes and their property in a way that they find most suitable to them.

So when people complain about short-term rentals, what are they actually complaining about?

There's, yeah, there's two parts to this, at least from what we've seen in Michigan,

which is of two types of cities that are banning short-term rentals.

On the one hand, you have that situation where it's a

really wealthy vacation area and the people are just like I don't want to be

around renters or vacationers which is interesting because they live in vacation areas and so they work to ban it and the other is more kind of like

...