The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor

Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor by dwaltrip on Sunday February 19, 2017 @11:54AM (#13680556)

To clarify, you don't think that any city should regulate people selling short term stays in their private residence, in any way?

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Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor by yummyfajitas on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:07PM (#13680641)

I think if they do regulate it, they should have a good reason for it.

All the reasons cited in this thread seem pretty bad. I say they are bad because when you apply the same reasons to regulating anything other than AirBnB, suddenly they don't seem like good reasons at all.

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Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor by someguydave on Sunday February 19, 2017 @09:59PM (#13683914)

>they should have a good reason for it.

The Supreme Court says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review

In order to justify the New Deal the Court lowered its standard for state infringement of liberty to: "You just need any reason for this law, it doesn't have to be a good one"

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Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor by dwaltrip on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:11PM (#13680665)

I just responded to one of your examples elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13680648

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