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If someone who is renting nightly is noisy, what happens? They might get fined, told not to come back. What happens when the next nightly renter is noisy? That
by rnovak 11y ago
If someone who is renting nightly is noisy, what happens? They might get fined, told not to come back.
What happens when the next nightly renter is noisy? That person gets fined/told not to come back.
The punishment for one tenant acting poorly does not affect any other tenant, and so there is no global motivation to reduce bad behavior.
Whereas with a long-term tenant, it gets expensive/prohibitive really quickly to behave badly. Isn't that genuinely what we want?
- JoshTriplett 11y agoFine the property owner, and increase the fine for repeat offenses.
- rnovak 11y agoThat will not affect the behavior of bad tenants. I'll give a simple example. my aunt owns a house here in AZ, and one out in NY. Lives in each for 6 months out of the year (ish). When she's not there, she rents them out. About a year ago, Verizon sent her DMCA takedown notices, and started their "warning" system (i.e. the step program or whatever it's called). I told her about the safe harbor protections, and she spoke to the tenant several times. Literally, the only thing that stopped the tenant from torrenting was installing OpenWRT on the router and setting up the nftables/iptables to block udp traffic (only after talking to the tenant 8 times). The only thing that can prevent some people from behaving badly is the absence of a chance to do so. Zoning is already a solution to this problem, why do we need to solve it again? Only places zoned for business/tenancy should be acceptable places to rent.