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If implemented properly, this will go a long way to putting the landlords and tenants who are essentially operating multiple short term hotels out of business.
Ridiculous how there are strictness on small homeowners trying to survive by making money on airbnb and people trying not to spend $500 a night at a NYC hotel then there is to the hundreds of LLC and corporations that own mass amounts of vacant land and homes/storefronts across the borough that is allowed to remain vacant without repercussions forever. Big guy wins again.
Ridiculous how there are strictness on small homeowners trying to survive by making money on airbnb and people trying not to spend $500 a night at a NYC hotel then there is to the hundreds of LLC and corporations that own mass amounts of vacant land and homes/storefronts across the borough that is allowed to remain vacant without repercussions forever. Big guy wins again.
It's ridiculous to try to enforce the existing law and policy?
Homes are not zoned as short term rentals in the vast majority of the country.
I don't care what home owners do with their private homes, but it should be outright banned in multi-unit apartment rentals. It's not fair to the other people who live in the building and it distorts the market (not that we don't already have a seriously distorted housing market, but still)..
Sometimes I think I'm the only person in my building who's not an Airbnb tenant. At first I thought, wow, people in this building certainly travel a lot. Constant movement of people with suitcases. When I saw a bunch of confused French people on the landing over the last Thanksgiving holiday, I caught on. They're very noisy, and I resent all my neighbors making money on this, when I'm not.
And then we wonder WHERE bedbugs come from. Let's leave the beg buggers to the expensive hotels that can afford the expensive treatments, and out of our apartment buildings for those of us who actually work and live here full time, please!
I have the same opinion with you.
It has to be balanced.
Yup me too. Airbnb is a great resource, but I understand it can't be a free-for-all...legally speaking. Nothing wrong with a home owner renting out of one of their rooms for vacations, but I guess having entire apartments just to rent them out on Airbnb is going a bit too far.
I've used Airbnb in other countries, specifically Mexico, and it was great. I was renting directly from Mexicans who owned the units they were renting out -- they lived generally across the courtyard, and it worked great and was a wonderful, and less-expensive, alternative to hotels. You actually got to know local people and get some insight into the city you were visiting. That's Airbnb at its best. But I agree that people in multiunit dwellings renting out places that they don't own and have no right to rent needs to be stopped.
It's ridiculous to try to enforce the existing law and policy?
Homes are not zoned as short term rentals in the vast majority of the country.
Its ridiculous how this city is so quick to force laws on a business that is helping many homeowners survive in this expensive city Because of lack of housing. However, we have tons of vacant lots throughout the borough owned by the city or private owners, where tons of affordable housing can be built. Then they also refused to pass a bill recently that would have held homeowners responsible for leaving vacant homes. There are so many vacant homes throughout this city, that could be utilized for housing but it sits there for years deteriorating bringing property value down of other homes and being squatter heaven. NYC works extremely slow with foreclosures, its embarrassing.
They are really making a big fuss out of airbnb because they want more taxes from it, and to appease the hotel industry.
Its ridiculous how this city is so quick to force laws on a business that is helping many homeowners survive in this expensive city Because of lack of housing. However, we have tons of vacant lots throughout the borough owned by the city or private owners, where tons of affordable housing can be built. Then they also refused to pass a bill recently that would have held homeowners responsible for leaving vacant homes. There are so many vacant homes throughout this city, that could be utilized for housing but it sits there for years deteriorating bringing property value down of other homes and being squatter heaven. NYC works extremely slow with foreclosures, its embarrassing.
They are really making a big fuss out of airbnb because they want more taxes from it, and to appease the hotel industry.
Really? I'm not aware of this so can you provide some evidence or facts. As for the Air BnB thing, I support an homeowner's right to rent to traveling but not in apartment buildings (whether subsidized or not by the gov't).
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