Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments

Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by duxup on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:06PM (#19444250)

We actually limited the % of units that could be rented out in our association as well for the same reason (we actually allowed exceptions based on need (have to move fast and can't sell and so forth), and actually approved those 100% of the time, it just rarely came up).

Long term rentals can have problem tenants too, but long term rental owners at least had way more leverage over their rentals than short term (who really in our case didn't give a damn).

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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by munk-a on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:14PM (#19444340)

I think one of the differences is that long term rentals can establish a pattern of bad behavior by the tenant, a short term rental may constantly be in a terrible state but no one renter has committed enough repeated offenses to warrant a citation. The correct answer here (and with a lot of modern society) is that sub-contracting is not an out, the owner of the property has ultimate control over who rents from them and can put in the time and effort to vet people even if they're just staying for the weekend, it's just viewed as an unreasonable cost so people ignore it.

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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by vladgur on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#19444791)

In most cases, thats not true.

Its very straight forward and quick to evict a short term renter for violating terms of the lease(noise violation etc).

Whereas its a lengthy and pricey process to evict a long term tenant in many jurisdictions

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