Yup, we had a good run with it for a few years there. Now it’s so impersonal and jacked up with fees. It’s ridiculous. Plus in most cases they have restrictions on the minimum nights stays, so we’ve been opting for hotels more recently.

I live in boston and own a triple decker and had a tenant who I found out was listing her apartment even though the lease said no subletting, and continued to try and do it even after explicitly being told she would violate the terms of her lease. I finally got her to stop when I caught an airbnb renter and his family trying to enter my apartment by mistake, I had to explain to them that the airbnb rental was not allowed and that they would need to find another place to stay or choose option 2 which was I call the cops and have them removed for trespassing. They were pissed and threatened to sue me and give me a bad review (like I care), but left when I started to call the cops. The following conversation with my tenant was pretty cut and dry and she was given a choice to be evicted or leave at the end of the lease which was in about three months. She decided to move on when I explained that going through the eviction process means that she would have trouble renting for the next 7 years at the very least.

Thankfully the city put a stop to listings like that, the new rules require that hosts own the properties they rent out (she didnt), and live in them for at least nine months of the year. They also limit listings to one per host, and require hosts to register their units with the city every year as well as pay an annual licensing fee which I am all for since the investors who started snapping up property to use exclusively for airbnb have caused the price of rent to skyrocket due to fewer properties for long term renters.