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God everyone knows transients are awful. Hell, renters are awful (have you ever run a rental property?) People just give less of a shit about where they live when they don't have a long term investment in the place. Go live in a rental building versus a co-op and tell me you don't notice a difference. Well those people in the co-op pay a premium not to live in a rental building and Airbnb profits by destroying the quality that results in that premium.

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Then the co-op should have no problem regulating this internally. There's no reason to get full protection of the law, with all the unintended consequences it brings with it.

It depends entirely on the scale of the problem. One or two rental units in a co-op? Can be handled internally. Someone on a quiet residential block opening up a full-fledged AirBnB hotel? That's a problem that cannot be solved internally.

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