Ok, I did it. It was long, the questions were reasonable and relevant, if occasionally repetitive, but I gave them a dissertation 🤨
Our "local" laws here are rather a blunt instrument. One size fits, all, and nowadays, that mostly eliminates the small homeowners who just want to put up their 2nd home on Airbnb and make a little extra legitimate income, while meeting all quality, health & safety regulations.
We were lucky, and acquired licence before they imposed the new laws, so we weren't subjected to the massive bureaucracy and ridiculous fees that new hosts are subjected to. But we're still obliged to meet quality health & safety. But if that were all, I'd be delighted.
Local councils have taken the opportunity to profit from it, charging up to triple the normal fees for things like water, sewer and rubbish collection, just because you hold a tourism licence. And everywhere you turn, there's some bureaucrat with another invoice in hand. It's become kind of ridiculous, really.
I appreciate the need to maintain standards, but I would support a more transparent system that distinguishes between sole proprietor STRs and large scale corporate hotels and villa management companies. And a common set of rules, so that guests from all over Europe know what to expect. We have our own oddities, and aside from the unnecessary burdens of them, some guests aren't exactly delighted to discover them.