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Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments

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Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

Why would government need to investigate how to persuade? Just fine them and/or shut them down, possibly go after the people running the company.

> Just fine them and/or shut them down, possibly go after the people running the company.

And New York has experience in exactly how to do this, hence my recommendation! Don't walk the trail of broken glass someone else already has.

Re: Portland Does Little when AirBnB Hosts Rent Multiple Apartments

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I 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.

Try being seriously under-unemployed in a recession for 5 years, watch a single demographic group of "I've got mine, so the hell with everyone else" entitled brats make tons of money in SF playing casino capitalism with mostly fake valuation companies that don't make any money, and then watch them cash their chips in, go into a city with a major housing crisis and push up prices so high through real estate speculatio…

To be fair, 4 years ago was the depth of the housing crisis and real estate was highly depressed. While 10% appreciation per year is evidently unsustainable, it's quite reasonable to expect that sort of appreciation coming out of a disruption like that. And it probably doesn't have much to do with SF money.
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