| They just need a lot better enforcement

If only there was a website where you could search a geographic area and get the address of every airbnb there...

1. Rent an airbnb for a period of time. 2. Tenant reaches out to host and asks to stay longer (or vice versa) 3. They agree to a deal outside airbnb that works better for both of them.

- no rules have to be followed

4. Tenant refuses to pay "rent", exercises squatter's rights

Yet I can still find rooms for this weekend in Manhattan ranging from sub $100 to about $250 a night.

> they just need a lot better enforcement of that law.

Perhaps also worth asking why Airbnb continues to host listings it knows are in violation of the law.

Very simply, the income they generate from violating the law is more than the fines they will receive if those violations are brought up.

Seems pretty easy to enforce. Fine Airbnb for each listing in violation of the law.

they need to start implementing and enforcing extremely high fines on illegal listings and then actually go out and try to enforce it. That's the only way it ends imo.