Recently Bundaberg Council has come out with a Factsheet regarding renting out your house to backpackers. They put in a few definitions as to what constitute a backpacker and has told property owners that they are not allowed to rent out their house to even one backpacker.If you do want to rent out your house to backpackers you have to get council approval and to get this of course they will check out your house and you have to pay them. There were restrictions before as you could not have more than 5 unrelated people renting your property but that has been reduced to zero in the case of backpackers.Is it legal for council to dictate who you can rent your house to as long as you do not rent it out to more than 5? Apparently this rule is only for Bundaberg, other councils in Queensland do not have this.