Why doesn't the home owners association crack
down on the short term rentals?
P.S. I never was on another side of the fence (i.e. living in the building with many short term rental visitors), so maybe I don't understand/underestimate something.
They'll have noisy parties, not know where the bins are and leave rubbish in the hallways, and clatter their suitcase up or down the stairs at 4:30 to take a cheap flight home.
> I think best strategy would be for AirBnb and building-owners to work together
I'd like to see a way for building owners, or local government, to get a feed of every listing on AirBnB. They can then terminate leases, or whatever.
So probably the smaller period the higher rating/experience of the tenant. And of course fines for landlords.
> I'd like to see a way for building owners, or local government, to get a feed of every listing on AirBnB. They can then terminate leases, or whatever.
You propose AirBnB give out gun to shot AirBnB :) That's not what I meant, more like notifications who rented what, so building owners could report/fine right landlord later.
If my neighbor rents out his spare room or his entire flat while he is gone, I hopefully can talk to him if I have issues with his guests, and he has an interest that his flat with his personal stuff stays nice and safe. A larger operation with 5 or more flats is going to care a lot less about such concern and who exactly is staying there. (This likely also influences guest behavior)
AirBnB helping to manage this would be nice, but it has shown no willingness to work with cities and neighbors to work towards enforcement of existing legislation, so it's not surprising that tolerance for violations goes down, courts get involved and further, targeted legislation gets created.
If you want to look at data, the best set of actual numbers I've seen is this dataset about Berlin: http://airbnbvsberlin.com/
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an international business isn't enthusiastically embracing the notion of every city and neighborhood being a unique regulation snowflake. In business terms, it sounds like a complete nightmare.
Which is why one (=I, as someone without experience in the field admittedly) would think they'd have an interest in providing some standardized tools (like a free-text field for a tax ID for commercial operations, or a permit code) that local authorities can hook into, instead of dealing with one court forcing them to share data at a time. Many city administrations will happily do enforcement legwork if you give them a list to check, that's their daily business.
I don't know what they did, but the regular noise at weekends didn't return.
Everyone who doesn't sublet their apartment year round should be against AirBnB in their building. It can only push the rent up.
1. Because the Strata (HOA in Canada) has no idea this is even an option. 2. Because most of them are in favour of it, (most likely).
A big issue with a lot of condos in major cities (particularly new construction) is that upwards of 50% of them (sometimes, even higher) are owned by investors not actually living in the building. It's only on site owners that care about the actual goings on of the space. Everyone else is just looking to make a buck.
This is why AGM's, Strata bylaws and Strata Council meeting minutes are important to read, not just throw into recycling.
http://www.richmond-news.com/news/cra-ups-its-game-targeting...