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re: Future of AirBnB in Nola?

Posted on 3/6/18 at 9:35 am to
Posted by Bayou Sam
Istanbul
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Posted on 3/6/18 at 9:35 am to
Yeah you are definitely right that Airbnb isn't the only player--but of course the others aren't cooperating with the city at this time, and hence their data is "invisible".

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Airbnb will only let you rent for 90 days a year on their website right?


Apparently not--I think they leave all enforcement activities to the city. It's the city's responsibility to subpoena data on owner accounts they suspect are in violation of the law; from what I understand, Airbnb only hands over mass and masked data to the city, in the (supposed) interest of protecting their users.
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
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Posted on 3/6/18 at 10:03 am to
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Apparently not--I think they leave all enforcement activities to the city.


Interesting. When I was looking at places in London around this time last year, London had the 90 day rule and they literally would not allow more than 90 nights of rentals. I don't know how they were controlling it from an owner standpoint, but from a potential renter standpoint there was definitely a bunch of dates blocked off. Most properties were only rented for certain months, and then had the rest of the year blocked.
Posted by Bayou Sam
Istanbul
Member since Aug 2009
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Posted on 3/6/18 at 12:49 pm to
Yeah, that points back to my original question. If the city enforces the 90-day rule (so far they have not), what you'll see is lots of airbnb owners voluntarily blocking off dates, especially regular weekdays, in order to save their 90 days for mardi gras, jazz fest, and other big holidays and weekends. So long as booking.com and others are still operating outside the law, those same owners will probably try to make up for their lost business on those websites.
Posted by hungryone
river parishes
Member since Sep 2010
11987 posts
Posted on 3/6/18 at 1:02 pm to
Article from today's Times Pic on short term rentals: LINK
Posted by tigerpawl
Can't get there from here.
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 3/6/18 at 1:55 pm to
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NOLA will find a a way to screw you

"In New Orleans, we pride ourselves in finding problems for every solution. New Orleans... Come join us on the path to least resistance".
Posted by baldona
Florida
Member since Feb 2016
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Posted on 3/6/18 at 2:37 pm to
quote:

Yeah, that points back to my original question. If the city enforces the 90-day rule (so far they have not), what you'll see is lots of airbnb owners voluntarily blocking off dates, especially regular weekdays, in order to save their 90 days for mardi gras, jazz fest, and other big holidays and weekends. So long as booking.com and others are still operating outside the law, those same owners will probably try to make up for their lost business on those websites.


No one is going to do that long term, no one. Its not sustainable, the 90 day idea is a joke.

I take that back, the people that will do it are those that have a mother in law suite or something like that and rent it out for the big events. But as far as an apartment goes, you can't rent the whole thing out for only 90 days a year. You'd be better off long term leasing. So people are going to cheat the system, or not do short term at all. Which I know is the idea, but still.

The one person it does help, is someone that rents to say Tulane students while they are in school and then does 90 days of summer rentals to tourists.

Which is fine. I like the idea of allowing it only in certain areas of town, business districts mostly.

The only dumb thing about that though especially for a city like NOLA, is everything is mixed up. I mean you have hotels across the street from Residential areas all over town. So its incredibly inconsistent.
Posted by lsuoilengr
Member since Aug 2008
4773 posts
Posted on 3/7/18 at 10:17 pm to
buy it, but only rent it out to hot college girls in exchange for mutually agreed upon services. thats what id do
Posted by hungryone
river parishes
Member since Sep 2010
11987 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 8:26 am to
And more negative news for anyone considering an AirBnB investment in NO: LINK
Potential rollback on licenses.....
Posted by Bayou Sam
Istanbul
Member since Aug 2009
5921 posts
Posted on 3/9/18 at 9:50 am to
Thanks for the link. Fortunately that wouldn't affect me at this point (fingers crossed).
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