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I always find it strange that rentals of several weeks to several months are banned (or people try to ban them) in so many places. What do you do with interns?
by superuser2 11y ago
I always find it strange that rentals of several weeks to several months are banned (or people try to ban them) in so many places.
What do you do with interns? You're obviously not going to pay them enough to live in a hotel. They're obviously not going to sign 12-month leases.
It seems like there are people who legitimately need to live somewhere for several months at a reasonable price, and are neither tourists nor residents. Did the Prop F people just want all the tech companies to stop hiring interns, and all the universities to stop having visiting scholars, etc?
- dawhizkid 11y agoNothing weird about it. It's to protect the host/landlord. If you rent out a place to someone for 30 or more days in many jurisdictions that person will have long-term tenant rights and it's much much harder to legally kick them out.
- devit 11y agoThe real issue is: why do hotels cost so much? It's just a normal room, so renting an hotel room for 30 days should cost as much as the rent of an N room apartment shared with N people, but somehow costs can be 3-10 times more. For instance, typical prices can be 300$ for renting a cheap shared apartment room for a month while the cheapest hotel rooms costs 50$, while they should instead cost 300/30 = 10$. That's why people use AirBnB and share apartments with roommates for more long term stays, otherwise everyone would just live in hotel rooms, which would be far more efficient and reasonable. I suspect the problem might be government regulation.
- crdoconnor 11y ago>The real issue is: why do hotels cost so much? Do you see AirBnb lobbying to eliminate hotel taxes?
- justincormack 11y agoHotel taxes are not the reason rates are so high. One reason is low average occupancy, another is a lot of people dont pay the list price, and get discounted rates, while others pay more, for additional services, so there is a fair amount of price discrimination going on.
- ceejayoz 11y agoThere's also stuff like having to carry insurance.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoHotels also have things like "furnishings" and "maid service" and other labor and capital expenditures that don't apply to apartments.
- madgar 11y agoIt's called a sublease. They're regulated.
- superuser2 11y agoFar as I can tell, Prop F would have outlawed all rentals between 60 days and having an actual lease. Does San Francisco law make a separate provision for subletting?