Posted on 05/16/2018 6:53:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/16/2018 9:47:53 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
New York
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Or protecting big business.
Doing what progressive/communists do.
Having said that, I'm kind of surprised New York City even feels a need to regulate Airbnb out of existence. I believe something like 70% of the housing units in NYC are in rental apartment buildings, co-ops and condominiums, and I'm willing to bet Airbnb violates the lease terms and/or deed restrictions in nearly 100% of those buildings.
Even the New York Post -- while standing up for Airbnb -- recognizes that most Airbnb hosts don't even own the places where they live.
More need for regulatory Decapture.
Bring an end to the “you got a license?” State.
In NYC, the taxes on a hotel room can add up to more than the cost of the room. This isn’t about anything more than Democrat government greed.
In other words, New Yorkers actually LOVE to live under an iron-fisted regulatory state ... but only when it works in their favor.
AirBnb can be a disaster for neighbors-——some regulation is needed.
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Some years ago I poked fun at rent controls and similar steps meant to help fight WW2 in a Transformers fanfic that I’ve got online. Only instead of a few decades it was many hundreds of thousands of years later and a Rents Riot in protest against the high rents that later residents of Iacon had to pay because earlier ones had artificially low rents was sets forth as an important event that would eventually lead to the Autobot - Decepticon schism. Though in the novels it was just part of a conversation.
Genesis: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-genesis.157453/
Forgotten Wars: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-forgotten-wars.157685/
The Hall of Dead Gods (set after the G1 cartoon): http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/the-hall-of-dead-gods.158130/
In a perfect world, landlord's, condo boards, and co-op boards, would self-regulate Airnb out of business through litigation against the hosts who violate the express terms of their residencies by renting out their units on a short term basis. But that would require an army of lawyers to make a dent, which would over-run the court system, and increase rents and commons charges to cover the litigation costs for a legal process that could take months if not years. And landlords who own rent controlled buildings would have to absorb the costs into their already low margins.
Ask yourself this: If you spent thousands of dollars to rent or a million plus dollars to buy a nice unit is a respectable building, would you want a new set of neighbors every few days monopolizing elevators, dragging luggage through the hallways at all hours of the day and night, running up an down the hallways at all hours, allowing doors to slam at all hours, littering in the common areas, etc. After having to go through multiple background checks and interviews to rent or buy a unit in the building, do you want to live next to people - even for a couple of days -- that have not been vetted and could be prostitutes, pedophiles, fall-down drunks, drug addicts, spring break college students, Eurotrash, or just plain creepy?
I agree with you. I’m just trying to figure out why the NY Post would go out of its way to support people who have no legal leg to stand on in what they’re doing — on any number of different counts.
New York City does not need to do anything. Sooner or later insurance underwriters will make it clear that if you are using your residence as an AirBNB you a will not be covered because now you have a commercial business. They will charge higher premiums along with demanding fire and accessibility codes be met to lower exposure to liability. Then it will not make economic sense to keep running one.
A way to avoid this might be to come up with innovative time-share plans.
unethical immoral libs
What person who has scrimped and saved to buy their own home—whether that be a single family house or a co-op apartment—wants the neighbors to be an ever-changing group of transients with no investment in the community and nothing to govern their behavior impacting your home’s livability? AirBnB is a plague unleashing a swarm of destructive uncaring bums on neighborhoods and should be abolished.
I realized that after I posted.
“AirBnB is a plague unleashing a swarm of destructive uncaring bums on neighborhoods and should be abolished.”
Agreed.
We had a couple of nasty incidents here in MA,both in single family,residential.neighborhoods.
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