Mark Simpson defends vacation rentals in Branson against local backlash over infrastructure strain and party behavior. He frames them as a family business while acknowledging county restrictions and his own plan to develop a property into a public park.
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Yeah. So, I mean, when we first got into the short term rental business, it was really an additional source of revenue for our family. And it is very much a business, but a big part of why I think the Branson area is so restricted and why public sentiment on a county level in Branson itself is so negative to a certain degree against vacation rentals. It's because of this kind of rampant, runaway development. I think, on a on a on a local level, there's this this impression that, you know, vacation rentals, you know, they're just going to be a tax to the infrastructure. They're going to bring in too much traffic. They're going to do this. You have all these party people all over the place. But it would be an amazing place to have a park. And so our thought was to kind of develop it in that direction.