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I've lived in tourist cities for the past 6 years, cities where tourists come for the summer for vacations and it's absurd. The smallest apartment come summer

I've lived in tourist cities for the past 6 years, cities where tourists come for the summer for vacations and it's absurd. The smallest apartment come summer season landlords behave as if they are renting you a hilton suite at a loss. The entitlement is crazy even when I pay higher rent during summer and a lot of it doesn't make sense as well. Tourists come for a week at most but somehow that's more interesting or profitable than having a tenant use the place year round.

Rinzler89 2y ago
Do you see the irony in your comment? As long as there's tens of thousands of people like you, bouncing around between the most touristic cities in the world, do you see how that exacerbates the problem?
- coolThingsFirst 2y ago
  I don't bounce around touristic cities. I live in one. I don't go to tourist places for a week and expect the landlord to evict a tenant that lived there for years and cycle people like me.
yodsanklai 2y ago
In south of France, a lot of rentals ads are "from September to May". I think they make all their profit in the summer, and everything else is just a bonus for them.
lotsofpulp 2y ago
One factor is how costly (including time) the jursidiction's laws and judicial system makes it is to get rid of a tenant. A high paying tourist is far, far less likely to squat or otherwise be a long term problem. I have a business partner who used to rent hotel rooms to long term guests stop because the government took 6+ months to remove non paying guests. So the solution was to simply forbid everyone from staying for more than the number of nights that qualifies a hotel guest as a tenant and hence tenants' rights. In fact, this problem of the county government not adjudicating tenant-landlord cases quickly enough got so bad, that the city government passed an ordinance that forbade hotels from renting more than 15% of hotel rooms to long term guests that qualify as tenants, because the city itself no longer wanted to deal with squatters and the accompanying problems.

Rinzler89 2y ago

Do you see the irony in your comment? As long as there's tens of thousands of people like you, bouncing around between the most touristic cities in the world, do you see how that exacerbates the problem?

coolThingsFirst 2y ago
I don't bounce around touristic cities. I live in one. I don't go to tourist places for a week and expect the landlord to evict a tenant that lived there for years and cycle people like me.

yodsanklai 2y ago

In south of France, a lot of rentals ads are "from September to May". I think they make all their profit in the summer, and everything else is just a bonus for them.

lotsofpulp 2y ago

One factor is how costly (including time) the jursidiction's laws and judicial system makes it is to get rid of a tenant. A high paying tourist is far, far less likely to squat or otherwise be a long term problem. I have a business partner who used to rent hotel rooms to long term guests stop because the government took 6+ months to remove non paying guests. So the solution was to simply forbid everyone from staying for more than the number of nights that qualifies a hotel guest as a tenant and hence tenants' rights. In fact, this problem of the county government not adjudicating tenant-landlord cases quickly enough got so bad, that the city government passed an ordinance that forbade hotels from renting more than 15% of hotel rooms to long term guests that qualify as tenants, because the city itself no longer wanted to deal with squatters and the accompanying problems.