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" I'm very sorry that person died but with private operators your normal expectations of service levels should go right out the window in return for a less cook

" I'm very sorry that person died but with private operators your normal expectations of service levels should go right out the window in return for a less cookie-cutter experience." This has zero effect on the law, of course, and in fact, i expect the law will get harsher in the face of AirBNB, not easier. "AirBNB guests will have to take into account that they are entering an unknown private home with an unknown history of maintenance." More likely what will happen is what has happened in the past: People get sued into oblivion, and either take out insurance, have regular inspections, or stop renting their home. Or some type of regulatory change will occur that makes airbnb untenable.

jacquesm 11y ago
> Or some type of regulatory change will occur that makes airbnb untenable. That would be a good thing but I think that it may be quite a while before a synchronized legal framework will materialize and the money is such that it will drive such rentals underground. AirBNB is the talk of the town in Amsterdam, whole buildings are converted into illegal hotels (and are fire-traps to boot). There is a huge divide imo between people using AirBNB to rent out the place they normally occupy versus people setting up places with the sole intention of renting them out via AirBNB, bookings.com (which is quite popular) and the like. The city of Amsterdam has stopped issuing permits allowing 'short stay' (which still has to be 7 days or more). https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?caseid={BF4EAC6B-F642-448A-8250-6B77AE7B0843} https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?caseid={BF4EAC6B-F642... (dutch, sorry, I can't find a relevant link in English). That doesn't stop people from buying up stacks of houses and converting them. One such situation with which I'm familiar converted two stacks right next to each other, 5 floors each into 20 (front and back) sections each of which fetches between 100 and 150 euros per night on AirBNB. The money involved is stupendous and the municipality has more things to do than to go after illegal hotels though they will definitely act if a situation is deemed unsafe.

jacquesm 11y ago

> Or some type of regulatory change will occur that makes airbnb untenable. That would be a good thing but I think that it may be quite a while before a synchronized legal framework will materialize and the money is such that it will drive such rentals underground. AirBNB is the talk of the town in Amsterdam, whole buildings are converted into illegal hotels (and are fire-traps to boot). There is a huge divide imo between people using AirBNB to rent out the place they normally occupy versus people setting up places with the sole intention of renting them out via AirBNB, bookings.com (which is quite popular) and the like. The city of Amsterdam has stopped issuing permits allowing 'short stay' (which still has to be 7 days or more). https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?caseid={BF4EAC6B-F642-448A-8250-6B77AE7B0843} https://www.amsterdam.nl/veelgevraagd/?caseid={BF4EAC6B-F642... (dutch, sorry, I can't find a relevant link in English). That doesn't stop people from buying up stacks of houses and converting them. One such situation with which I'm familiar converted two stacks right next to each other, 5 floors each into 20 (front and back) sections each of which fetches between 100 and 150 euros per night on AirBNB. The money involved is stupendous and the municipality has more things to do than to go after illegal hotels though they will definitely act if a situation is deemed unsafe.