Today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced, beginning Monday, the state would move into a “full Phase One,” and short-term rentals can reopen if counties submit a plan for opening safely. DeSantis added, “If your plan says you’re going to accept guests from New York City, I’m probably not going to accept that.”
Throughout Florida’s shutdown, DeSantis has kept timeshares, resorts, hotels, motels, and inns open. He gave his reason for that today saying that he needed to have places to “put up” national guard if needed.
DeSantis’ message to counties: “For the vacation rentals, what we’re doing is telling counties, if you want short-term rentals—if you want them to be open—you submit your plan and you can show how they are going to be safe.”
Bars and movie theaters also remain closed, but like vacation rentals, amusement parks can submit plans to the state show they plan to reopen safely.
In addition, DeSantis further opened restaurants and retail, effective Monday to 50 percent.
Glad to see your lobotomy went well. Bad news for you; we are coming! Feel free to pack your bags and head back to where ever you feel safe. Idiot. Feel free to ask Governor Numskull to close down all hotels and resorts instead of violating our constitutional rights. Its gonna cost you a lot of tax dollars when we collect our damages!!! LOL! I will be thinking of you when I do!
I run a Condominium hotel that is licensed as a vacation rental property but we run it as a hotel. I just can’t wrap my brain around the fact that hotels, motels, inn, B&B’s and the like can be open to short term rentals but we can not. Each room has its own private entrance, no common areas and every unit has its own patio. I truly believe that guests would be safer at our location than at some of our local hotels/motels. This absolutely makes no sense whatsoever and I wish someone could explain the reasoning behind this.