Mayor Adrian Schrinner says property owners would now need appropriate planning approvals, body corporate support and a 24-7 property manager for short-term rentals
Hard to argue tbh… Is there a negative to something like this I’m not aware of?
Personally I think Airbnb is the stupidest thing going. You pay more than hotel rates, to live in a house you have to clean and tidy yourself and then pay cleaning fees on top, and its often a hassle if anything goes wrong as there’s no responsible party you can approach - Airbnb shrug their shoulders, and the host just hides behind a mobile number they can conveniently turn off.
Have used them a couple of times in the past purely because we had pets and I hated it.
Personally, I prefer an apartment that I have to clean myself, because it means I don’t have to worry about random strangers coming in to my apartment all the time.
Hotels just don’t work for me. They’re completely disconnected from the location and people around them, and full of people just as unfamiliar with the surrounds as I am.
When I was in Puerto Iguazu in Argentina, if we’d have been in a hotel, we’d have been in a sculpted, serviced space completely disconnected from the town around it. Instead, we stayed in a tiny little apartment in the back streets of the town. We got to actually see and experience the place, in a way that would have been impossible with a hotel.
Even if changes like this become universal (and I hope they do) I’ll likely to continue to use Airbnb over hotels when I can.
The shitty thing is that you have to clean it yourself and then they charge a “cleaning fee”.
In Australia, I’ve also seen a relative rise of what are basically just hotels. The Airbnbs I’ve used overseas (admittedly not recently) have felt just like what you described. In Australia they’ve felt more like an apartment or townhouse bought by someone with the explicit intent to rent out as an Airbnb, with a whole bunch in the same building or complex owned for that purpose—or at least the vibe that that’s the case. A couple in Brisbane that my parents have used a few times when visiting is even in the same building as a hotel. Some rooms are hotel, others are privately-owned apartments, many of which are seemingly Airbnbs. (One of said hotels made the news recently for a really awful cockroach infestation, which is neat…) You feel just as disconnected from the city as you would in a hotel. Perhaps even more so, since in a hotel there’s at least a semblance of a sense of connectedness to other hotel patrons, which you lose in these hotel-based Airbnbs.
People are always treating Airbnbs and hotels like they fulfill the exact same role, but personally i’ve never had much luck in finding a hotel that offers a full kitchen for a reasonable rate, much less offered the sort of continuous interior space most Airbnbs can, and which is great if you tend to travel on tips with both your and extended family.
Short term rentals should definitely be more regulated, but it amazes me that condos, but rented and for poor people took so long to really become common.
Odds are the residents of Puerto Iguazu in Argentina hated your guts for driving up their rent. Airbnb, especially in it’s current state is a major burden for the local population, and should be outright banned.