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"According to CNET, the law originally meant to prevent landlords from turning residential properties into hotels." Which is what AirBnB is essentially?
by ry0ohki 13y ago
"According to CNET, the law originally meant to prevent landlords from turning residential properties into hotels."
Which is what AirBnB is essentially?
- Gobitron 13y agoAgreed. It strikes me as correct that if I rent/own an apartment in NYC, I should not have to deal with my neighbor's AirBnB business. There is room for compromise, but I would tend to favor putting the burden on AirBnB.
- jacquesm 13y agoHow about a person that owns a free-standing house?
- endersshadow 13y agoYou're still skirting hotel regulations and occupancy taxes. There's a difference between, "My friend's coming to stay for awhile," and "$100/night to stay at Chateau d'Moi!"
- AlisdairSH 13y agoNo different, IMO. I live in a typical suburb - 4 bedroom homes, quarter acre lots. I don't want my neighbor running a B&B. Is there room for compromise? Maybe. On general principle, I wouldn't mind my neighbor renting his house for a few weeks while he's on vacation. But, if the renter isn't a good guest (noisy). Or, instead of one renter for the duration, it's a new guest each night, I probably have a problem. Until AirBnB can convince me nothing like that will happen, I'd just as soon keep the rules as they are.
- joubert 13y agoIn Manhattan?
- msrpotus 13y agoThey exist. Just very expensive.
- joubert 13y agoas far as I know, there is only ONE free-standing house in Manhattan, and it is currently on the market for $13m - http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/877330 http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/877330
- gyardley 13y agoThere's a bunch of free-standing houses scattered through Inwood and Marble Hill. Not that they're a large portion of Manhattan's housing stock, and they're certainly not central, but they're there. That listing's claiming to be the only free-standing mansion - which sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
- GBond 13y agoYes. In fact, one listed on airbnb. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/62891 https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/62891
- joubert 13y ago"The interior space is one small room, furnished with a loft bed, kitchenette and separate, full bathroom. "
- jkaljundi 13y agoA good compromise for a start might be something about maximum number of nights per year allowed. Later on, the government can get out from regulating what people do with their property.
- alexchamberlain 13y ago+1 for the first sentence. The second on the other hand... governments all regulate what you can do on your property. Who wants a night club upstairs?
- k__ 13y agoNobody, but I hate the stuff government allows my landlord to do. Just because it's to expensive to "own" a decent house in this part of the world I have to dance when someone shouts?
- zero_intp 13y agoOh, so you don't mind my PCB lab next door? It's awfully convenient to my apartment, the commute was killing me.
- tacoe 13y agoThis gets at a distinction I think matters: landlords vs individual owners. Landlords using AirBnB strikes me as against the ideal of AirBnB and I am not happy that they allow this. In fact when I try to locate an AirBnB spot, I always try to single out the ones that aren't from landlords but from actual individual owners (not always obvious).