Hi Everyone,
こんにちはみなさん!
Regarding the new Minpaku law on short-term rentals: I am not a lawyer. A brother of mine is, in Canada though, and so is a nephew.
Anyway, it seems to me, that with laws, and with business, how you word what you are doing is vitally important. I am just wondering if we cannot work around this unfair law if necessary.
For example:
Could we not call what we are doing a club? Instead of a guest house, our rental space is a club, and guests pay a membership fee. If they pay for one night (on Airbnb) they become a trial member, and perhaps they get some benefit from that. They can stay for free in the future, or they get a discount on a future stay, something like that.
Or
If they book two nights, (on Airbnb), they become a regular member.
I just wonder if it is something as simple as the wording.
I am a customer of FBC, the Foreign Buyers Club in Japan. Importing food into Japan is a difficult thing. But FBC was able to finally do it (I think) by rephrasing what they were doing and making it a club. You become a member and you buy food for your
own personal use ( you eat it!)
So I wonder if the answer to all of this, isn`t just staring at us in the face: Make your listing the Shibuya Travel Club or something like that.
What do you think? I would love to hear what others think about this.