Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals

Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by nsnick on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:46PM (#14541747)

AirBnB provides an invaluable service. Without them, it would be completely impossible to move somewhere for a month or two to find out if you want to live there. Without AirBnB there is no short term rental market. No one outside of AirBnB will give you a lease of less than a year. I have no idea how people moved to other cities for a short period of time before AirBnB.

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Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by skylark on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:51PM (#14541774)

Before AirBnB, people would sublet their apartments - I've never personally had trouble finding one to three month accommodations.

You're correct that the extremely short term rental market (2 weeks and below) didn't really exist before, and AirBnB did streamline the entire process.

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Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by megablast on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:51PM (#14542058)

Yes, there was, just not as many.

What I have done in the past is stay in hostels (when I was younger), hotels or serviced apartments. They exist in all major cities.

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Re:Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals by kspaans on Monday June 12, 2017 @06:55PM (#14541792)

Multiple other services are listed in the article: VRBO (a subsidiary of Homeaway) and Kijiji. Not to mention actual B&Bs.

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