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.
I truly hate that headline. This is a good thing.
I’m sure it triggers the victim response in a lot of people who will never visit the city; aka morons.
Agreed. I wish I just was looking to rent a furnished apartment right about now because it’s a renters market, but I’m plenty good where I’m at.
Really not hard to rent an AirBnB across the river in NJ and take a train in anyway
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.
I lived on the same floor as a couple Airbnbs for a while and it was the same way. Lots of trash and noise. More than the usual big city noise. Like bass cranked up at 3 am and they probably won’t hear if you try to knock.
For a while there was a steady stream of men coming in and out of one of the apartments. And a sign on the door that said something about massages.
Good! Apartments are for living, not tourists.
Fuck Airbnb
There are about 43 million hotels in the city. And you can get a hotel in Hoboken or Yonkers and commute into the city.
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.
What you’ve said is what I hear a lot; someone buys a house on a residential street in a tourist town and turns it into a party palace.
The original concept was good, but as usual, people find ways to exploit the system.
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.
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.
I think they realize where the demand is and what their client base is, and it’s a lot of folks looking for short term stays.
But people that want to buy a house to live in, especially small starter homes, suddenly have options.
