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re: New Austin, TX Law That Limits Amount of Unrelated Adults in a House

Posted on 3/16/16 at 9:53 am to
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
Cajun Navy Vice Admiral
Member since Oct 2012
41894 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 9:53 am to
I'm generally an anti-legislation/regulation guy, but this is one of those areas that can be, and is, abused frequently and there's little to no recourse for those affected.

You lose the advantages of living in a residential neighborhood when 50%+ of the houses surrounding you are only occupied by randoms a few days a week.

Have an acquaintance who owns a lot of rental property. He's told me stories about long term tenants bitching and moaning about him not allowing them to list the place on AirBnb and shite for big events in the city.
Posted by fisherbm1112
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
6573 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 10:13 am to
We are headed to Austin for my Bachelor party also in a couple of weeks and haven't had anyone tell us this yet. We also told them it was a friends trip and that it was less people than what it was though.
Posted by seawolf06
NH
Member since Oct 2007
8159 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 10:22 am to
Adding Austin to the list of places I'll never live. If they have ridiculous laws like this, I'm sure they find other ways to waste time and money to limit the freedom of the citizens that live there.
Posted by Haydo
DTX
Member since Jul 2011
3005 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 10:24 am to
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Those laws tend to be geared towards people living together, like college students with multiple roommates. Not people coming in for a weekend.


WRONG.

This, like a law that is being discussed in NOLA, is the "Airbnb" law.
Posted by LSUBFA83
Member since May 2012
4351 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 12:59 pm to
If I was renting out a house I wouldn't want a bachelor party in there. Or spring break partiers, etc.
Posted by Slingin Pickle
Fancy side of the North Shore
Member since Jun 2008
3045 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 1:07 pm to
Are there fraternity houses at UT? Wouldn't that law cause an issue?
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
9006 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 2:32 pm to
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Adding Austin to the list of places I'll never live. If they have ridiculous laws like this, I'm sure they find other ways to waste time and money to limit the freedom of the citizens that live there.


That's not even the most ridiculous law. There's a ban on plastic shopping bags.
Posted by SthGADawg
Member since Nov 2007
7035 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 2:36 pm to
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boosiebadazz


dude you have the best avatars...is that the same chick you had before?
Posted by Uncle Stu
#AlbinoLivesMatter
Member since Aug 2004
33877 posts
Posted on 3/16/16 at 2:42 pm to
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There's a ban on plastic shopping bags.


it sucked for a while, as grocery stores would try and charge you for the paper bags

then a little more time passed and they just said frick it, and paper bag your groceries, no charge

Of course I go shopping the other day in the new town I just moved to, and a big sign at checkout - "April 1st, make sure to bring your own bags, plastic bag ban ordinance goes into effect"

....fricking hell
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