Posted on 12/30/2018 11:26:53 AM PST by Kaslin
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.....
AIRBnB is a leftist company. Hoisted by their own petard.
Yep. Professional, 100% Leftist Scum Rats. I hate the politics in this state.
Normal business requirements like what? When you list them, you should ask if they are reasonable or justified for municipal services provided or some other reason.
More anti-freedom, NWO, socialist, racist, agist BS from the communist north.
They should raise taxes also to fund airbnb oversight and enforcement.
The corrupt Fascist Demokkrats running the state of Massachusetts showing that they’re for sale to the highest bidder, once again.
Coming soon to a Democrat controlled state near you...
We’re renting an entire house for a week when we visit a Houston suburb. It’s very nice and just around the corner from the relatives we are visiting. There are no hotels in the vicinity, and we really couldn’t afford a two-bedroom suite in one, or restaurant meals for three people for a week.
So AirBnB works just fine for us.
No biggie. I have no plans to ever go to Assachusetts.
Next up Uber.
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