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I don't know how many of you here are native NYers. And I stress the native, because anyone who hasn't lived here for decades won't have a deep understanding o
by mikecane 16y ago
I don't know how many of you here are native NYers. And I stress the native, because anyone who hasn't lived here for decades won't have a deep understanding of how things work here. Going out to the Hamptons (or elsewhere) for two weeks or a month and renting out your place has been going on here for decades. This has never been something hidden from the government, The Village Voice would be filled with Short-Term Sublet ads just for this purpose. Now that this has risen to the level of a nascent Internet business that can centralize, organize, and capitalize on this practice, Patterson -- faced with a crushing deficit -- slams the lid on it. Every day I wake up to find local, state, and national government tightening the noose around our necks more and more. All of you talking about liability -- hey, one of these budding Net businesses involved in this could also sell short-term insurance for such liabilities.
- fmora 16y agoI'm a native. Never heard of this. We must be on different economic classes. I come from a working class and so does everybody I grew up with.
- mikecane 16y agoDid you never have to look for an apartment in The Village Voice?
- fmora 16y agoVillage Voice? That is so las decade.
- mikecane 16y agoYes, but that was my entire point of citing native NYer. From the 1970s on, the Voice was a go-to place for apartments for young people, which also included tons of Short-Term Rental ads. And the Times had such ads too for the monied set.
- fmora 16y agoNo, I do not get your point. I was not even born in the 1970s.
- earl 16y agoPretending that something that went on mostly via word of mouth between neighbors or at least acquaintances is comparable to a scaled business on the internet is silly.
- mikecane 16y agoIt was never word of mouth. Newspapers would have entire sections of Short-Term Rentals and Sublets. Patterson just killed all that advertising -- like newspapers needed more income lost! [typo edit x3]