Edit: not sure why you're being downvoted, I upvoted fwiw. Yeah I agree, I'd like to see this studied more in depth, because I also don't find the hotel indust

Edit: not sure why you're being downvoted, I upvoted fwiw. Yeah I agree, I'd like to see this studied more in depth, because I also don't find the hotel industry to be unbiased in the discussion. It is not supposition because it happened to me: someone in my building was Airbnb-ing their apartment and the building had significant damage to public walk ways, parties thrown on roof til 4am on week nights etc. If you look through my comment history you'll see I'm, admittedly, completely biased because of that. Again, as you said, I'd love to see a study. I think it would be totally reasonable to also have a public place where I could see all units in my building that are currently being short-term leased, as well as a place to complain. I don't think all out illegality is the only response here, but Airbnb (and VBRO etc.) are not handling this properly yet.