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Originally Posted by supafamous
Is this a separate suite or just rooms of your main house? Officially the rules in Burnaby say that you can't AirBnB a separate suite in your house - you can only rent out rooms of your primary residence - but there's no enforcement happening right now at all. I'm told that city staff have a list of violators but haven't been asked to pursue any of it - the somewhat jaded insider I spoke to said the policy is just to placate people who don't like AirBnB and not to actually do anything about it.
As for your neighbors, yeah, you basically go and knock on their door or leave a note. This by-law is enforced only a "reported by residents" basis right now (if even that the insider I spoke with) which means your neighbors and folks who spend too much time on AirBnB are the people who can report you.
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This seems super complex with Burnaby bylaw regulation. It has a requirement on the application "Property does not contain any suites", and required I initial off. My home is a single dwelling with a basement that has a kitchen, washroom, bedroom (this is pretty standard with all old bungalow style homes). It has a backdoor that leads to a laundry room, and then another door passage that leads this basement area (essentially another man-cave if you put it that way for guys).
If they're saying you can only short term airbnb not a suite and only a room, that doesn't make sense? So the person can only use the same washroom, kitchen etc. as you? As anything "separate" is apparently deemed illegal as it would mean it constitutes a suite?