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Is the rental contract between the customer and the room provider or between the customer and airbnb? One way to approach enforcement would to be to set a thre

by joshwa 16y ago

Is the rental contract between the customer and the room provider or between the customer and airbnb? One way to approach enforcement would to be to set a threshold on the number of units a room provider can offer without being subject to the hotel regulations. AirBnB can easily enforce such restrictions.

_delirium 16y ago
Imo, it'd be a good idea for AirBnB to independently attempt some sort of threshold like that. I think its strongest niche is rooms or couches rented out by actual people who also live at that location. But there are (esp in NYC) a decent number of listings that are basically hostels / unlicensed hotels, and not all are entirely up-front about the fact that you're renting a room from a commercial operation that manages a bunch of rooms in the property, not from an individual who lives there. The rise of those kinds of operators has definitely made me warier of using AirBnB now, while I used to be able to assume that most listings on the site were legit individuals renting out rooms/couches in their own homes.