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New York State has laws like that. They're awfully clumsy, as laws tend to be, and prevent me from posting my entire apartment while I'm in Europe for two weeks
by ethanbond 10y ago
New York State has laws like that. They're awfully clumsy, as laws tend to be, and prevent me from posting my entire apartment while I'm in Europe for two weeks. I think there are more specific ways to tackle this problem legislatively like limiting to a certain number of nights rented per rolling 6-12 month period.
- jacalata 10y agoClumsy laws require less intrusion to enforce. A flat ban on short term rentals means they can run through airbnb listings and see who is breaking the law. A rolling 12 month period requires that they track each night you rented your place out.
- ethanbond 10y agoOr Airbnb can save its business model by cooperating with the law and with common sense and simply forbid people from renting beyond that?
- jacalata 10y agoIf you were satisfied with only enforcing it against people renting solely on airbnb, then sure. Seems like it would be easy to work around though.
- ethanbond 10y agoOr they simply have the law as they do now such that it'd be illegal to rent your apartment out through a service that doesn't cooperate in this way.
- mattlutze 10y agoThe regulatory compliance costs would put an undue burden on smaller players to the market though and end up stifling new entrants.