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Case 2023CV000086 Document 64 Scanned 10-04-2024 Page 2 of 26 otherwise identified by Mr. Auleciems as an island with a connecting road to the mainland, known as Birch Island Lake . Mr. Auleciems and his wife have rented this property to individuals seeking vacation getaways for many years . In 2017, Wisconsin enacted the Right. to Rent law that permits landowners to rent their property to people for short-term-type rentals, for 7 days or more . This law expanded landowner' s ability to rent their properties more frequently, and with less restrictions and prohibitions from local governments . The Right to Rent law, however, requires landowners to abide by certain prerequisites before they can rent their properties; the first being applying for and receiving a license from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) for rental property that will be rented more than 10 days in a calendar year. Since 2017, Mr. Auleciems and his wife have continued to rent their property, and, in fact, have increased the quantity of the rentals, all without receiving the requisite DATCP license, nor meeting other necessary requirements of the 2017 Right to Rent law. With the increase in rental activity of the Auleciems' property, Plaintiff neighbors in this action have observed countless activities, conducts and behaviors of the Auleciems' renters that have impacted their use and enjoyment of the their own personal property, and which have caused angst and stress to them and their families . These activities have included loud music, excessive vehicles, UTVs and ATVs, and trailers parking all around both on and off the rental property, parking on the neighbors' properties, obnoxious and foul septic odors , trespassing on the neighbors' lawns and in wooded areas, urinating on the neighbors' properties, damage to the neighbors' trees and lawns, and rental occupants exceeding 14 , 16, 18 , or poss-bly more . 2