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Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by paulpauper on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:26PM (#14541267)
How would a city officials detect when a home is being used for rental , versus having guests over
Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by warcher on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:42PM (#14541365)
You don't have to catch them all, just enough to make some examples. If you're not doing some kind of greyball uber shenanigans, one semi-competent police officer can close the circle on somebody pretty easily.
Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by kspaans on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:07PM (#14541513)
Search AirBnB listings in Toronto that offer "full house" rental. It's a pretty strong clue. But obviously it's not the whole picture, as you may be renting your entire house or apartment while you're on vacation.
Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by linkregister on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:30PM (#14541292)
In New York, they were scraping the website to find the short-term rentals targeted by its ban. I presume Toronto could do the same.
Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by megablast on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:17PM (#14542333)
Let others dob them in for investigation. Home owners who are bothered are the best ones to report this.
Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by wavefunction on Monday June 12, 2017 @05:32PM (#14541309)
Probably noise and nuisance complaints.