<story><title>Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/vancouver-wields-c-10-000-a-day-fine-in-crackdown-on-empty-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reneherse</author><text>Shameless plug, for my just-released &amp;quot;fake home occupancy as a service&amp;quot;, where my family and I charge you only 0.5% of the property value to satisfy the government&amp;#x27;s occupancy requirements. Contact info in my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdgdasfadsf</author><text>Letting someone have possession of property (yes tenants have possession) like this can be a dangerous thing to do in some jurisdictions - they can quickly gain rights to live there and you lose the rights to evict (or increase the rent - which could be a problem if they are charging you to live there!). Far more likely is that people start renting the empty property out+ - which will increase the supply in the rental market and help the housing costs... I.e. the intended effect.&lt;p&gt;EDITED
+ (with proper tenancy agreements which usually provide some balance of power between owner and tenant)</text></comment>
<story><title>Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/vancouver-wields-c-10-000-a-day-fine-in-crackdown-on-empty-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reneherse</author><text>Shameless plug, for my just-released &amp;quot;fake home occupancy as a service&amp;quot;, where my family and I charge you only 0.5% of the property value to satisfy the government&amp;#x27;s occupancy requirements. Contact info in my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenshackle2</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t trust reneherse&amp;#x27;s service. My competing service, &amp;quot;actual home occupancy as a service&amp;quot;, is bulletproof; we guarantee that we will occupy your house full time.</text></comment>