Our legislature,House and Senate,is something like 95% Rat.And these are Massachusetts Rats....*not* Wyoming Rats.No filthy,scummy piece of legislation would surprise me here.
Just waiting to see if they’ll tax unused bedrooms because of potential use as a rental room.
That’s the point of a lot of regulation. Big money can buy rules that keep out the competition - heck just the costs of compliance can put one out of business.
But they’re all for our safety, doncha know.
Baker, the chosen successor of Carpetbagger RomneyCARE,
is beholden to both RomneyCARE and the Rattlesnake.
What a horrible state MA is.
Booming market no more.
Not gonna lie, I’d be less likely to buy a house if I knew the next door neighbor was renting their place out to multiple people each week.
You cannot defeat supply and demand. MA is a relatively small state. What is going to stop visitors from renting out rooms in neighboring towns across the state line?
Mixed feelings on this.
Private residences are not zoned to be businesses.
These people also are skirting around the fees and licenses hotels and motels are paying. Now one may argue some hotels/motels got tax breaks/deals to build in a city, and that may have some merit.
Further you probably would not like being next to a property always rented out to strangers who dont care about the neighborhood.
At the same time more govt laws on how a person can use their own property is anathema.
Basically it boils down to people acting as a private business abusing a personal residence as cover for a business and thus govt has to then define the difference between someone who does it intermittently and someone actually trying to be a stealth business with the intent to avoid the normal business requirements all other hotel/motel/rental businesses that are above board deal with.
Its not the same as renting a room out to a tenant either. Becaud airbnb folks are not classified as landlords and dont have the hassles landlords must deal with.
this is how politics work...you pay off the politicos so they can “legally” crush your competition.....
More anti-freedom, NWO, socialist, racist, agist BS from the communist north.
They should raise taxes also to fund airbnb oversight and enforcement.
Coming soon to a Democrat controlled state near you...
No biggie. I have no plans to ever go to Assachusetts.
Next up Uber.
This’ll hurt, Massachusetts is high on my vacation list... Not.
Why shouldn’t hosting laws be applicable to both Airbnb and hotels? Most Airbnb is power users anyway (ie businesses). Not sure why hotels must have insurance, fire safety, etc but a company running 30 units on Airbnb would be exempt?
Go for it. AirlBnB destroyed my neighborhood in Florida. People were buying properties sight unseen to rent them for wedding parties. The locals have objected. But under Florida state law, localities can not regulate them.
This is no longer the person renting out their spare room and wanting to meet you and tell you the good stuff in town. It’s a not very good hotel, the same price or even more than a decent hotel, managed by one of the local management companies. It doesn’t pay hotel taxes, doesn’t have hotel cleanliness or safety - and ruins your neighborhood.
AirBnB should block every legislator that voted for it, and every member of the hotel lobby that dreamed it up from ever being able to use the app in the future. And you know they’ll try, bunch of hypocrites.
Alcohol? You need a permit for that.
Your TV was on when you opened the door? Are you licensed to provide entertainment?
You gave them a ride from the airport? Taxi/chauffer's license.
Ad infinitum
And people really think they own the homes they "buy."