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Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by tptacek on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:29PM (#9540987)
Those rules already exist. In a medium-sized apartment building with common areas, leases assuredly spell these things out. The problem is that rules in leases aren't effectively binding on short-term tenants, because it takes longer to enforce the rules than those short-term tenants will be staying anyways.

Also, you can reasonably assume that boilerplate leases for apartment buildings forbid directly these kinds of short-term rentals. Most boilerplate leases require individual approval by the landlord for any sublessors.

Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by baddox on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:43PM (#9541093)
> The problem is that rules in leases aren't effectively binding on short-term tenants, because it takes longer to enforce the rules than those short-term tenants will be staying anyways.

Why aren't they binding on the property owner, thus disincentivizing owners from renting out the property?

Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by tptacek on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:24PM (#9541348)
The process we use to accomplish that is called "zoning law".
Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb by baddox on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:58PM (#9541556)
You're just dropping back to the top of the conversation, before I brought up the issue of regulating specific symptoms rather than one potential cause (short-term rental).