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Replies to "What does VRD stand for? Not familiar with those initials?"
Vacation Rental Dwelling. Generally, these are houses purchased only to provide rental income, either a modest home that's razed and replaced by a 2-story 4-5 BR place or a place built with that purpose in mind. We have entire communities that are built, not for anyone to live in, but for people to buy for investment, and the builder provides the rental services, cleaning, etc. When your neighborhood is at least 30-35% second homes (used by the owners and their relatives and friends) and 24% VRDs, it's difficult to have any sense of neighborhood. Because the visitors pay very high rent (hundreds per night) and pack in an average of 4 per BR, there are noise, parking, and overflowing garbage issues. Our town is the first place people see when they arrive at the coast from the more densely populated Willamette Valley, so it has far more nightly rentals (motels, VRDs, illegal rentals) than most towns on the Oregon coast. I need to be quick to retrieve my trash can after the garbage truck empties it--or visitors will start throwing trash in or near it. I've seen visitors actually chase "our" deer with their cars, even when they have very tiny fawns. In short, not all visitors behave as they would at home.