Travelers looking to rent an apartment for a few days in New York City will find slimmer pickings now that city officials have started enforcing new rules cracking down on short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb.
Travelers looking to rent an apartment for a few days in New York City will find slimmer pickings now that city officials have started enforcing new rules cracking down on short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb.
Was gonna say, I’ve never had an issue booking a hotel in NYC as long as I plan ahead, and rates are generally reasonable as long as you, again, plan ahead. Obviously you’re going to pay more at the height of tourist season, weekends, whenever events are happening, etc. It’s been this way for pretty much forever. But if you book your stay a few months out, you tend to get better deals.
I live in a ski town that has a massive Airbnb problem, and the city is finally green lighting the building of more hotels. It’s everywhere. And while there is an expectation that holiday weekends and much of the winter is busy, it doesn’t help having morons going apeshit until 3am on a Tuesday when I have work the next day and our sheriffs can be pretty useless.
What you’ve said is what I hear a lot; someone buys a house on a residential street in a tourist town and turns it into a party palace.
The original concept was good, but as usual, people find ways to exploit the system.
Where I’m at, cabin rentals were a thing long before Airbnb. People had their vacation cabins, and they’d rent them out through a local agency. It was fine for decades, and most people used them to supplement their vacation property. It wasn’t until Airbnb that people were actively scooping up as many properties as possible to rent them out exclusively and completely thrash the local housing market. And I know we’re not alone in this, ski/tourist towns all over the world are having this problem.