Take the time to hear from Groton STR owners

I am a member of the Mystic Hosts Association. Please check out our website at www.mystic-hosts.com Unfortunately, there is a stigma and a lot of misinformation going around about STRs causing noise and problems in Groton. No one should be living next to a “party house” or be a neighbor of a house that has 15 people being stuffed into a 3-bedroom home. The overwhelming majority of STR hosts in this area are local, have been around for a long time, and are very professional in how we keep our homes and vet our guests. These listing platforms make it very easy to verify and validate our guests. We cherish our community and have spent a lot of time, money, and energy in our homes. We take pride in both our town and our homes and we are not bringing in the groups of people that our homes, our community, or our neighbors don’t deserve.

Please take some time to check out our website. It is filled with content and we have spent a lot of time trying to stand up for ourselves and separate ourselves from the STR stigma.

Courts have been divided on the issue on whether or not to regulate short term rentals. Groton did a 96-page amendment to its zoning laws in August of last year, during peak tourist season when these STRs were allegedly causing so many issues, yet STRs were not addressed at all in that 96 page revision.

We have a “Comment or Concern?” page on our website for anyone to reach out to us directly who would like to show support or has a complaint about and STR. There is an open invitation for anyone to reach out to us so we can have an open dialogue together because we’d like to hear any concerns anyone has so we can work together to fix them.