Hello Michael and Francisco in East Beach!
Happy to find you gents here on the Airbnb community forum. My first time here...
My home is 5 minutes from you... just off Shore Drive on Heutte. You may have even seen my home driving down Shore looking over Lake Whitehurst... It's the mid-century modern property just across from ORF. I'm here with my pup Charlotte -- a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel -- and have been digging Airbnb since November 2014. I've been a Superhost pretty much since then, sharing my two bedrooms fairly constantly, while also hosting the occasional wedding in the back yard here.
It would be fantastic if we could bring in other Norfolk hosts in this forum. I've met some Virginia Beach hosts in a group that gathers when City Council in both VB and Norfolk gather to try to bring us down... As you know, Va. Beach has instituted some strict guidelines... I went to the Norfolk City Council meeting last fall at the library down Ocean View and actually spoke... Fortunately, while they were tossing around some horrendous, random potential rules to shut us down (thanks to their pockets being lined with hotel association $$$), as you know, they have yet to actually pass anything to "put us in our place."
Please feel free to reach out to me -- along with any other Hampton Roads hosts -- so that we can share and hopefully get to know one another. i'm not allowed to share email here apparently, so hope to heart from you HERE.
cheers!
=Chuck=