Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
by cuteboy19 on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:25PM
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So we should criminalize perfectly harmless things because it ruins your experience? It doesn't seem logical
Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
by mym1990 on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:41PM
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It can't be perfectly harmless if it is ruining someone's experience. Its kind of like urinating in public...maybe it doesn't hurt anyone but it sure does ruin a lot of people's experience...and thus it is criminalized.
Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
by chii on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:42AM
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If there were more public toilets, there'd be fewer public urination. The law is there to catch the few that do it.
But if there's tonnes of public urination because there are no public toilets, then even tho the law says no, people are still going to do it. There's a demand to pee that cannot be stopped.
The idea that airbnb should be outlawed is irrelevant - the fact is that there's demand for it. This means there's a lack of short term rentals in the area. The demand must be satisfied, and so the price of it grows.
Isn't this like saying Walt Disney World shouldn't be able to sell tickets to out-of-staters? State residents who know each other could have a higher chance of running into each other at the park if it wasnt full of out-of-staters, and that could build valuable community.
Yes, it does. People buy homes for more than financial reasons. Living in a community of homeowners with neighbors you've known for years is a completely different experience than living in a revolving door community of renters. There's been a whole decade of news reports about Airbnb ruining neighborhoods and condo buildings, to the point that it's not even worth citing a particular incident.