Monday, November 12, 2018
Condos raided over AirBnB rentals
From the Wall Street Journal:
A team of New York City law-enforcement officers swarmed a Manhattan condominium last month, issuing 27 notices of violations for illegal hotel use in one of the largest crackdowns on short-term rentals such as those listed on Airbnb.
The raid at the Atelier, a 46-story Midtown luxury tower, may be a sign of what’s to come. New York and other cities are seeking to limit short-term rentals that can run afoul of local laws designed to limit hotel-style stays in residential buildings.
The violations went to 20 different apartment owners who allegedly rented to guests from at least 15 countries including Argentina and Spain. Some guests paid $400 a night, and one group of six from Switzerland paid a total bill of $3,823 for a short-term stay, according to city records.
Two members of the Atelier condo board were among those cited for making illegal short-term rentals. They also were accused of putting up illegal partitions in their units to create extra rooms.
8 comments:
God Dam Communists!!
How the hell else are New Yorker's to pay all these skyrocketing taxes, rents and war on private automobile harassment tickets without some kind of supplement income?
Why must my friends, parents, relatives pay a hotel some outrageous 20% tax on some shit $250+ a night room to visit me ?
Sell and move someplace else right ?
Great, now maybe when they are done playing games in Manhattan they can come out to Queens and start to address the illegal conversions and basement apartments all over the place.
THE ONLY WAY I WOULD PAY FOR AN AIRB&B IN NYC IS IF THE PRICE WASN'T SO INFLATED. TRADITIONALLY IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE OPTION BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE UNITS IN LUXURY HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS CAN COST MORE THAN A DECENT HOTEL IN MANHATTAN.
It's obvious that the recent regulations and fines to tamp down the abuse of Airbnb has not done shit.
I know this building, it's a shithole. A glorified pied-e-tierre flophouse.
A decent cheap hotel in Manhattan (once $79-$99) now costs $279 to $379 a night plus a 20% NYC hotel tax, PLUS 8% state tax. That crappy little $279 room becomes over $350, no TV, No free internet (in the room), no parking, locked windows.
Hell you cant even skype call, smoke a cigarette or joint out the window !!
AirBnB has been a godsend in Racketeer City for those who are not millioniars or businessman having the company pickup the hotel tab. (income tax writeoff)
AirBnB exists because the hotel system in NYC has gone to corrupt and doesn't event want the average vacationers money
AirBnB, Uber, Amazon, Google, etc and any of the other so-called "shared economy" crap is the biggest con of all time. The ones who make the money are those that own the companies. Most of the workers make shit, have to use their own property and then there is the damage done to communities by AirBnB.
As P. T. Barnum may have said (though no proof), there is a sucker born every minute and in this day and age of people who don't believe in science, think facts are not facts, that the press is the enemy of the people and fake news, there is a sucker born every half second.
The businesses that are doing well, THE CON BUSINESS.
Creep greedy landlord in Ridgewood doubled my rent so I rented a tent in Corona for $30, partied my ass off and AIR-BnB'd my apartment for $125 a night when they went to Greece. I then took the money, my belongings and got the hell out.
Not everybody is misusing AirBnB, some people really need it. You shouldn't throw stones.
@ Zoë said...
Did you read whay Joe said ""shared economy" crap is the biggest con of all time."
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