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> As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals,
by hamandcheese 8y ago
> As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permanent resident of that unit.
As far as I can tell, AirBnb is blatantly complicit in allowing renters to violate this law. When I moved to SF I stayed in an AirBnb for a few weeks. It didn't occur to me when I booked that it could have been an illegal operation. Once I became aware, I looked up the public records and, lo and behold, there was no short term rental permit.
- lancesells 8y agoNot only are they complicit in it they are profiting off of breaking the law but having zero consequences. They are paying no fine in this case or any other I've heard of because of something in their TOS. "As part of city law, San Francisco requires property owners renting out units for less than 30 days to register with the city’s office of short-term rentals, as well as be a permanent resident of that unit. " - The registration can easily be made a requirement to list on AirBNB and they could limit one unit rental to users. "These are not the type of hosts we want on our platform and are glad the City has the tools it needs to enforce the rules" - Ha.
- abandonliberty 8y agoTheir business model is the arbitrage between legal tourism housing and illegal short term rentals of residential neighborhoods to the detriment of more permanent residents. For both owners of properties and travelers, this is good for you, so you do mental gymnastics to escape it as you can see all over this comment section :)