Travelers looking to rent an apartment for a few days in New York City will find slimmer pickings now that city officials have started enforcing new rules cracking down on short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb.
If only there were some well-established type of business, one with lots of rooms available for short periods of time that don’t share those hallways of rooms with full-time residents. Something you would pay a fee for and they would let you stay in one of those rooms. I wonder what we would call it? Maybe an AirbnTel?
I’ve been saying this but I’m surprised no one at Airbnb thought of this, but just start doing long-term rentals. Become a rental management company. Easier said than done, but they have the cash on hand to make it happen.
Was gonna say, I’ve never had an issue booking a hotel in NYC as long as I plan ahead, and rates are generally reasonable as long as you, again, plan ahead. Obviously you’re going to pay more at the height of tourist season, weekends, whenever events are happening, etc. It’s been this way for pretty much forever. But if you book your stay a few months out, you tend to get better deals.
I live in a ski town that has a massive Airbnb problem, and the city is finally green lighting the building of more hotels. It’s everywhere. And while there is an expectation that holiday weekends and much of the winter is busy, it doesn’t help having morons going apeshit until 3am on a Tuesday when I have work the next day and our sheriffs can be pretty useless.
Where I’m at, cabin rentals were a thing long before Airbnb. People had their vacation cabins, and they’d rent them out through a local agency. It was fine for decades, and most people used them to supplement their vacation property. It wasn’t until Airbnb that people were actively scooping up as many properties as possible to rent them out exclusively and completely thrash the local housing market. And I know we’re not alone in this, ski/tourist towns all over the world are having this problem.
Does anybody actually like it when airBnB moves into their neighborhood? I had one try and move in next door. fortunately my city had a defacto ban in place (the permit basically means you have to be a hotel-level of operation to successfully get the permit.).
They were only in operation for two or three groups staying and it was a nightmare. Trash being thrown into my yard. Shitty party music until 3 am. idiots trying to drive home from a keggar. drunken fratboys trying to figure out how to use my brick smoker to grill their fucking hotdogs… because the fence wasn’t an obvious enough indication that maybe it was someone else’s property. idiots blocking my drive way. Drunken idiots trying to drive out to get…whatever…
Like, I could not imagine living with that constant barage of bullshit. the funny part was the host was pissed that we dared call the cops on their ‘guests’. (who then proceeded to piss off the cops with bullshit pseudo-lawyering.)
AirBNB was great back when it was just a viable means for finding a room in someone's house to crash for a few days. Then the profiteers found it and AirBNB sacrificed their entire reputation for short-sighted greed. Add with everything in the past 20 years
I used to be a host in nyc with two rooms in my place, and it was just that, profiteering ruining it for everyone. But before the LLCs, there were the hosts that just scaled l into becoming profiteerers. A lot of them started as regular hosts and simply found it much more lucrative to scale it to many units or entire buildings.
It was a fun experiment for a while, but I hated what it became as soon as Airbnb started marketing itself more aggressively. Once they shared listings with hotel aggregators, it was over, completely changing the type of clientele and turning it into a sort of Russian roulette, where one in six guests would do something that got me closer to quitting it altogether, which I did eventually.
Edit for clarity: I’m in favor of the current regulation.
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