Well, Paris has essentially the same rules, so that is how one European city handles it, NewbE. glas

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jamie99 on Apr 7, 14 at 02:17 PM
It does say "San Francisco bans all residential rentals of less than 30 days unless the hosts have a conditional use permit - an expensive and cumbersome process that virtually everyone ignores. The ban applies whether the hosts own or rent, paying guests visit frequently or once a year, or hosts rent out a room or an entire dwelling."
Well, Paris has essentially the same rules, so that is how one European city handles it, NewbE. glastonbury People rent apartments illegally all the time. If they get caught, they get hit. They are more likely to get caught in condos and apartments because other owners turn them in. No one likes strangers in the building, and the staff hate it. The power of a condo board in most states in the US is to fine the owner. If the owner doesn't pay, the board gets a lien on the condo and takes the fines when the condo is sold. If the owner fails to pay fines until the amount of the fine equals the value of the property, the board can foreclose and force a sale. I have only seen this happen once, but then my experience glastonbury is limited.
Interesting, thanks. It seems to me that one accepts significant restrictions on lots of things in a condo or apartment building in the name of communal living, and indeed, no one likes strangers in the building. As I said, I do wonder that owners of free-standing homes don't protest such restrictions more. I can see both sides: no one likes a random assortment of strangers on one's block, but on the other hand, does ownership not confer the right to use ones; home as one sees fit as long as noise and other regulations are not violated?
Even owners of free standing glastonbury home cannot just do as they please. There are zoning laws in most towns and cities that may regulate whether or not you can have a B&B in your home. Also, a question glastonbury I never see come up on this subject is insurance. Most homeowners insurance policies don't cover things like having paying glastonbury guests unless glastonbury you get special coverage. I wonder how many people renting out space on Air BnB have that. My agent told me that renting out a room through Air BnB or privately without the specific coverage would void the policy. This effects the renter more than a rentee but still an issue.
The 30 day rule does apply to all property owners, however, to my knowledge the City has never attempted to enforce the ordinance against individual homeowners. The ordinance was enacted to prevent the owners of large multi-unit rental buildings from bypassing SF rent control ordinances and from turning their buildings into short-term tourist residences. The current situation is based on the fact that tenants glastonbury are letting, some or all of their apartments. In some cases these are tenants in rent controlled apartments who are collecting far more in vacation rentals than the landlord is allowed to charge them for rent. Landlords are seeing it as a way to evict rent controlled tenants and therefore glastonbury get market rate for the apartments. Even if the City does amend the ordinance to allow short term rentals, probably with payment of hotel taxes, I think quite a number of landlords will put no rental clauses in their leases.
VERY few of these places in large cities are free-standing residences. They are usually rental units in larger buildings - or sometimes in condos or co-ops (although that is a lot easier to stop) and the other tenants are sharin