There's a point here, but there's also a line between tolerance and exploitation. I'm not against my neighbor renting his place out for a month while he travel

There's a point here, but there's also a line between tolerance and exploitation. I'm not against my neighbor renting his place out for a month while he travels in Europe, and help pay for his vacation. That's the sort of neighborly thing I'm willing to be on board for. But this, primarily, isn't the contentious issue. The contentious issue is when someone buys an apartment and rents it out full-time as a business venture. Me helping out his business venture by overlooking basic concerns isn't neighborly, it's being a pushover while he laughs his way to the bank. > "Otherwise you are going to live in an over-regulated society where everything that can be unpleasant to somebody is illegal" I agree. And the best way to prevent this over-regulation is to reign in bad actors without having to invoke the law. This is to say, AirBnb needs to go back to its roots as "I'm away from my apartment, who wants it" and not "I have 5 properties around the city".