If our family ever gets away on vacation, private vacation rentals make our vacation VERY DELIGHTFUL!  It feels good to be paying another private family for our accommodations rather than a HUGE  hotel corporation.  We get unbelievable space and service, more bang for our buck!  Our friends here who vacation rent their homes for a few months of the year desperately need the extra income to pay the ever increasing living expenses, rising OPALCO bills and taxes.  The income helps them afford to stay in the community they grew up in.  It is not convenient to rent your home out to strangers, yet folks do it in order to get by.  The government should stay out of it.  If you are worried about affordable housing, let folks be!  Regulating the heck out of us does NOT help!