Wilmington (NC) REALTORS® Stand Up for Home Owners to Defeat Proposed Vacation Rental Ordinance

Kure Beach, one of North Carolina’s treasured seaside communities, consists largely of investment properties whose owners rent to vacationers for most of the year.  When the town attempted to overhaul the zoning ordinance governing vacation rentals, the 1,850-member Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS^® tapped into NAR’s Land Use Initiative to prepare a convincing argument against it.  That, and a strong showing of REALTORS^® at the planning commission meeting, convinced the town to drop the proposal.

• Read about WRAR’s success in stopping an onerous vacation rental ordinance (224K PDF)