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Too many people who should not own and rent investment properties bought investment properties to rent as ABnBs. It broke the spirit of the thing, which was to rent space in your house, not a property used solely for that purpose.

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explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Why haven’t zoning laws caught up?

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- criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They do but it’s apparently hard to enforce.
  
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  - explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Couldn’t you just search Airbnb for your jurisdiction, then catch the landlord red handed?
    
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    criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I would agree.
    
    I say it less as I know why and more that I know a lot of municipalities (including mine) have laws and codes in place that prevent using properties as hotels, and have had them for years, and yet they still operate.
    
    So either they’re hard to enforce or they’re understaffed to do so.
    
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    AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    They can pretend they live there. It’s harder than you think. And legislation takes time that a new app development does not. It is also local, so you are talking about thousand of civic governments not in concert with each other, and often playing the game with rental properties themselves.
    
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