Whats the definition of Kafkaesque? Lost me there.
What a great reasoned post @curtpete.
It is a shame that some hosts donât manage their properties more responsibly in terms of who they let it out to and have CCTV/personal check inâs and house rules around noise and anti-social behaviour.
Airbnb has already set up a scheme where neighbours can report noisy/anti-social Airbnbâs that can result in a listing being deleted so you could definitely circulate details of this and promote them in your local media, so that residents know there is someone they can turn to at Airbnb if there is a problem.
Certainly there are tourism and other seasonal workers who need affordable accommodation, but it is the impact on day to day workers such as nurses, hospital workers, waiters, bar workers, teachers, cleaners, shop workers that support a local economy which are key when it comes to the impact on affordable housing.
As I have already mentioned this is a much wider problem then the STR market, but it certainly has itâs part to play especially in areas like Paris which have thousands and thousands of illegal Airbnbs.
Itâs become shorthand for bureaucratic nightmare in the same way that Orwellian is often used to describe government surveillance.
"The first year I got my tourist home permit, it took 2 months to receive. The fire departmentâs inspection held it up. Last year it took 2 months, and I didnât receive it until mid-January because the fire marshal took so long to approve it.
This year I submitted my application in June, and it took 6 months to return, with the fire marshal once again being the holdup.
No fire marshal has ever inspected my residence"
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