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And if you dig into the anti-housing discourse, you'll find there are also several good reasons for that.
Like what?
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>Put me in the camp that's very anti-AirBnB as a resident who doesn't want where I lived turned into a hotel. I live in NYC. You're simply demonstrating NIMBYism. You get to stay in one of the most geographically desirable locations in the world and in order to pay lower rent you want to prevent others who live in much less geographically desirable places from renting units in your locale so that they can get to enjo…
Who says it's only about rent? People who live in a place for only a few nights in general behave very different than where they live for a longer time. I live in a > 100 year old building with bad acoustic insulation with 10 small apartments in it. For some time, the tenant above rented his apartment via AirBnB which was totally annoying and I'm really happy it stopped. I'm mostly talking about loud noise in the mid…
Also, from what I've seen, most opposition to Airbnb is motivated by its alleged effect on rental rates for long-term tenants, which is the least justifiable reason to oppose it in my opinion.
Airbnb employee here. (Software engineer; I don't speak for the company.) Personally, I like staying in listings that are owned and operated by the resident. It's more personal and it lets me connect more with some locals. One of my favorite nights at an Airbnb was a dinner with the delightful couple who rented out a room in their Paris apartment. Much less enjoyable was a night in a Seattle room--it was very clean a…
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Depends where you are located and what kind of apartments it is. The average rent in whatever is somewhere around 50% of the income, so if you own 3, you don't need to work.
Let's assume average income = x So, rental income from 3 houses = 1.5x Even if we assumed that all three homes were owned outright, you'd be on the hook for property taxes, maintenance, and utilities for each house. About half of my monthly expense minus mortgage is on these three line items. Therefore, 1/2 of 1.5x goes straight to property taxes, maint, utilities leaving your income at 0.75x. You have to pay your ow…
I don't know if you said "houses" on purpose. Houses are going for more than 0.5 income.
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>re: travel and entertainment is not one of life's necessities neither are steak, chicken, lobster, toilet paper, SUVs, TVs, rockets to space, streaming movies, fireworks... and yet the production and consumption of these things carry personal and societal risks. who are we to judge, unfortunately? >re: have not received any value from a large corporation? I think what the poster is saying there is that he receives v…
> toilet paper I'd like to dispute that one. Hygiene is certainly one of life's necessities if we want to share this planet with 7 billion other people.
Some ways that come to mind include pressurized water, sanitary wipes, other ways that could result in a physical and bacterial clean etc
Western toilet paper is just but one way to achieve hygiene and could therefore be considered replaceable by something else
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The problem is that there are already regulations, but AirBnBs are skirting them.
Right and Obama's DOJ doesn't prosecute racketeers, they promote them. WHITE HOUSE APPOINTS BRIAN CHESKY AS PRESIDENTIAL AMBASSADOR FOR GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP http://blog.atairbnb.com/white-house-appoints-ceo-brian-ches...
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For the 336k people who live there I'm sure what you say is true. It's different for the 300+ million of us that live in the US (where this forum is based thus my reasonable presumption that we're not generally conversing about a small isolated island nation).
>where this forum is based thus my reasonable presumption The 16th word in the post you responded to was "Reykjavik". Second line, first sentence. The post contains the word Iceland once and the word Reykjavik twice. There is only so much I can do to help you on this front.
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I don't use either hotels or AirBnB very often, but I have young kids, so when we do travel whole house is significantly preferable to a hotel. Kitchen facilities, washing machine, fridge, freezer are all things that are indispensable with young children and not that common in hotels. Hence AirBnB is usually what we end up with, even if it's more expensive. Also, 2 bedrooms. 1 single shared family room for 4 means we…
Ever used RVShare? It's pretty cool to rent an RV at/near the destination, good combo of included amenities and mobility, don't have to be a neighborhood disrupter if you stay at a camp ground/state or national park, etc. Clearly not a viable alternative for all vacation lodgings, but a nice alternative where it suits you're needs.
I'll keep it in mind though. Thanks.