SHORT TERM RENTALS ARE JOB KILLERS
Legitimate Hotels create 0.5 to 2.0 jobs per room, depending on whether the hotel is a limited service, full service or luxury/resort property. So a 100 room limited service hotel would employ about 50 people and a 200 room luxury hotel would employ about 400 people.
These jobs include front desk, security, bellmen, valet, housekeeping, hosts, waiters, bartenders, cooks, busboys, gardening, retail, engineering, accounting, marketing, and management. Many of these positions provide steady jobs, substantial earnings and professional careers.
Presuming a residential property already has a pool service, landscaper and occasional handyman before it starts operating as an STR, the only increase in employment as an STR is for housekeeping. Housekeepers typically clean 15-20 hotel rooms per day, but an STR also has a kitchen and living room to clean, so let’s say they can clean 8 bedrooms per day, or two 4 bedroom houses a day. House cleaning services also quote about 4 hours to clean a 4 bedroom home.
The average length of stay at an STR is 4.3 days, but let’s say its 3.5 days so there are two cleanings per week. Two cleanings is one full day of employment per week for a housekeeper, which is 1/5th or 0.2 of a full time job.
So a 4 bedroom STR creates only 0.2 jobs in housekeeping while 4 rooms in a legitimate hotel create 2 to 8 full time jobs. And the STR housekeeper probably has a “gig” job with low earnings, no benefits and little stability.
Compared to legitimate hotels, EVERY BEDROOM IN AN STR KILLS ABOUT 1 HOSPITALITY JOB IN ARIZONA, along with the income taxes, housing demand, multiplier effect and long term growth that goes along with each job.
STRs KILL JOBS AND DESTROY NEIGHBORHOODS. FIX 1350!!