I wonder if this effects the VRBO site which does exactly the same think as AirBNB
I guess it depends on who is giving the political contributions.
We’re not in NY, but I have several friends that rent out rooms in their home through AirBNB. Their clientele has been quite fascinating. Folks from many countries, and states (we do live in a vacation area.)
We have rented vacation property through VRBO for many years. We’ve rented in country and out of country, and have always been pleased with the destination rentals. Our kids even rented VRBO apartments for their honeymoon.
The rub in our area is there is a tourist tax collected on hotel rooms. The AirBNB folks don’t pay that tax, and therefore their prices are much less
than a hotel would be. They’ve been pushing to tax the AirBNB rentals for the past year or so.