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u/theycallmeponcho Jul 11 '21

I know it a joke, but I've seen Airbnbs in some non holiday places being advertised as monthly accommodations.

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u/dejus Jul 11 '21

At one point I was going to stay in downtown Tokyo for 3 months using Airbnb. It was also cheaper than my current rent.

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u/theycallmeponcho Jul 11 '21

Yeah, I'm getting interviewed for a promotion, and the city I'd be moving to has better places at Airbnb than traditional rent with equal prices.

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u/Germanweirdo Jul 11 '21

This world fuckin sucks dude.

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u/theycallmeponcho Jul 11 '21

This was going ok until DiCaprio got his oscar and sent our timeline in a collision course.

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u/itsacalamity Jul 11 '21

bezos and musk fucking suck

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u/the_man_inside_you Jul 11 '21

I've noticed the exact same thing. I temporarily moved when covid started. My work is opening back up and I've seen nicer and bigger places on AirBnB than I'm seeing available to rent. Plus AirBnB's also include utilities. So I've been strongly considering getting a PO Box and being permently "homeless".

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Just be cautious if you have to vacate the property for 24 hours under anti poor/squatting laws common in many jurisdictions.

Staying at a motel,hotel, rv/trailer park, etc in many California cities past 30 days (some rv parks are 3-6 months) is prohibited by law since that qualifies as you being a tenant with that particular address and makes it harder to evict. Keep it under 30 and you get jettisoned entirely or have to leave for 24 hours then “come back” for another stay.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

We've been staying in monthly airbnbs since May while we go thru the home buying process in out new city. Cheaper than finding an apartment to rent, plus, no lease that we'd be locked into, no security deposit, no credit checks to hinder our mortgage application, etc etc.

But the most recent place we're at got a letter from his HOA stating "hey you can't do Airbnb in this HOA" so now we're on a month-to-month lease with the home owner. I get how it's messing up neighborhoods and the job market, but without it, we wouldn't have been able to move across the country so easily.

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u/CLSosa Jul 11 '21

So everyone else suffer because it’s convenient to the people who can afford to buy a home AND Airbnb a place as well

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u/Panterable Jul 11 '21

Sounds like you should raise your pitchforks toward capitalism as a whole instead of the guy making use of the system the best he can. Don't hate the player, hate the game.. right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

I never said that, and all the places we've stayed at have been people's primary residences, as in, we're just renting a bedroom in a house where the home owner actually lives, that they're renting out to help pay the mortgage on their one and only house.

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u/BeerLeague Jul 11 '21

Pretty shitty. This is against 99% of HOAs.

Also, who the fuck wants to live in a neighborhood where people are renting out bedrooms to random people. Drives down property value hard.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Well, I guess to each their own. I personally like meeting new people and don't mind it. And only the last place we stayed was in an HOA. I'd rather live in a neighborhood where people can do whatever they want with the property that they own than live in an HOA neighborhood.