Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
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Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#2I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property.
I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#3I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property. I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason.
I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#4I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property. I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason. I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
So you are against other people having freedoms because they might do something bad? Isn't that the definition of FUD?
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#5I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property. I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
I don't understand your not understanding. Could you explain? I don't see a desire to preserve the value of one's own property, or certain qualities of the environment in which one lives, as difficult to understand, if that's what you mean.
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason. I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
So you are against other people having freedoms because they might do something bad? Isn't that the definition of FUD?
You are creating a straw man argument here.
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason. I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
So you are against other people having freedoms because they might do something bad? Isn't that the definition of FUD?
Societies (of ten through their governments) restrict all sorts of behaviors that affect others in various ways. My neighbor (in a residentially zoned area) can't decide to open a gas station on their property. You can argue about various laws and rules at the margin but it takes a pretty anarchist perspective to argue that no such rules should exist.
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason. I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
So you are against other people having freedoms because they might do something bad? Isn't that the definition of FUD?
Couldn't you extend this logic to complete anarchy?
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#9I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property. I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
So it's OK with you if your neighbor rents out his property to a sketchy couple that open a meth lab?
Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments
#10I will never understand the desire to control one's neighbors' property. I don't care who owns it and it's none of my business how they use it.
Your neighbor's actions have an affect on your home, including day to day comfort and how much your home is worth. HOAs exist for a reason. I'm not sure I'd want to live next to an apartment that constantly has new guests, any of which could do who knows what to the building.
Two issues.
1. "HOAs exist for a reason." They exist under the pretense that they maintain or increase property values. There is no evidence that this is the case. I have spent well over 100 hours researching this, and was unable to find conclusive data to prove this (and used said data to help communities dissolve their HOAs).
2. Short term rental restrictions fall under city/local (and sometimes state) government ordinances, which are enacted to allow for reasonable housing costs for local citizens.
I'd highly recommend Portland's local government get in touch with the NY Attorney General's office to get their recommendations on how to persuade AirBNB to maintain compliance with their local laws.