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People who rent out apartments they don't own fully deserve to get blacklisted. The author dares to call it "my apartment", but you don't get evicted from your
by makeitsuckless 11y ago
People who rent out apartments they don't own fully deserve to get blacklisted.
The author dares to call it "my apartment", but you don't get evicted from your own apartment. He is the one who abused someone else's property in the first place.
Edit: I truly don't understand all the downvotes. Here's someone who illegally exploits someone else's apartment for profit, and clearly feels no responsibility for his role in the whole affair. What is so abnormal about the fact that no one wants to rent to this person anymore?
If I borrow your car, rent it to someone I don't know who then proceeds to crash it, would you then consider met the victim or the a-hole who abused your trust to make fast buck and got your car totalled?
- omegaworks 11y agoConfusing abusing someone else with abusing someone else's property is the reason for so much pain and evil in this world. Thanks for propagating the mythos.
- dragontamer 11y agoUnfortunately, there's a reason why subletting for less than 30 days is _illegal_ in New York City. Because you attract a crowd of people who like to do Sex Orgies in stranger's houses. At the end of the day, it was a mistake for the author to use AirBNB, and now he is paying the price.
- omegaworks 11y agoThere are plenty of people that need short-term housing that don't also think that a surprise sex orgy is an appropriate thing to do in a stranger's home. Why should regular people not be able to rent out the space they don't need to regular people that need it? The people who thought it was appropriate to trash the place should be made to cover the damage they wrought to the OP's life. That is the fairest solution.
- dragontamer 11y ago> Why should regular people not be able to rent out the space they don't need to regular people that need it? Because he doesn't own the property. I severely doubt that his landlord is letting him sublet his apartment for less than 30 days. Why not? It doesn't matter. If you don't _own_ the land, you don't make the rules. Hell, even in my townhome that I own, my HOA / local laws do not allow me to sublet due to zoning restrictions. If I didn't agree to the law, I could have bought a different house. But I like the location, so I agreed to it. (I don't really care for AirBNB or subletting anyway). But these are the sorts of things you need to take responsibility for if you want to be a functioning adult.
- omegaworks 11y agoPhilosophically, why should ownership imply total absolute control?
- dragontamer 11y agoPhilosophically, why does philosophy matter? If you're gonna waste my time, I'm not gonna bother with a serious response.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThat's what ownership means. A renter had exactly the rights to property mandated in law or contacted in the rental agreement. That's what they paid for and the owner aged to transfer. If they wanted the right to use AirBnB or similar services to sublet the apartment, without consequences from bad subtenants, they should have contacted for that. The property owner, had they been willing to provide such rights, would probably have charged substantially higher rent -- out required larger damage deposit or insurance purchase by the tenant -- to do so.
- omegaworks 11y agoDoes it really provide net good in the world that your HOA is preventing you from negotiating an agreement with another person that could live in that space?
- rosser 11y agoI'm pretty sure "people who like to do Sex Orgies in stranger's houses" wasn't on anyone's mind when New York made short-term subletting illegal.
- dragontamer 11y agoThey probably weren't thinking "sex orgies", but they probably were thinking "illegal prostitution". There's a reason why zoning laws exist. In particular, hotels and other temporary arrangements attract drug deals, prostitution, and other unsavory characters. I can guarantee you that "illegal prostitution" was on the mind of city planners when they zoned out the place. Maybe not quite "sex orgies", but it'd be within the neighborhood (oh I'm so punny...)
- makeitsuckless 11y agoWhat on earth are you on about?
- jeffdavis 11y agoAbsolutely correct, but there is also room for criticism of AirBnb. The business model is largely based on that kind of recklessness with other people's property.