This kind of attitude is what makes the internet exhausting to me anymore. It's identity politics, but for deciding who I'm supposed to hate. Everyone is so high on constantly hating anyone that's doing better than they are, and I can't tell if it's jealousy, self-hatred, something else entirely, or a mix of all of the above, but it just makes me so tired.
Critique is important, but constantly celebrating when someone with perceived privilege has property stolen or is injured or whatever is damaging to society and our own selves.
What are you trying to say actually here? How is this "deserving" in any way? He worked, he got an apartment to make some extra cash and that's about it. I know plenty of people doing this since I was a child, Airbnb or not.
That maybe housing, a basic human need that too often goes unfulfilled in a supposedly developed country, shouldn't be an investment?
I mean, I can think of people even more deserving, but in the end, charging 3 grand per month for what looks like a room with at least one code violation should be considered some kind of moral failing.
He was renting out part of his property so it can be used by people other than himself. This helps address the housing issue. Why would anyone risk that now?
Renting short term housing to tourists does not help the housing issue, and it is unfair to neighbors that did not sign up to live next to or in the same apartment building as a hotel. Tourists belong in hotels, not in residential buildings.
NYC, where I live, has effectively banned Airbnb recently. It’s a great change. LA should do it too.
Presumably this tenant who is staying for a year would be staying elsewhere in the city if they couldn't stay at the Airbnb. How is it adding to the housing crisis?
The more potential landlords see how the local governments are tilted to screw them, the fewer of them are going to rent out or expand their rental properties.
Congrats on turning over all rentals to large, soulless corporations. You think you have problems now? Ha!
> If he had a standard year long lease with this tenant, I would be much more upset for him not getting paid or the tenant evicted!
He did have a long term lease with her. From the ladies lawyer:
> “This is not a short-term Airbnb — it was a long term rental, they had a separate long term rental agreement and there’s documentation to prove it. In fact, the City of Los Angeles has sent multiple letters to Jovanovic outlining to him why his conduct is illegal and must cease.”
That's the whole premise of this legal loophole. He didn't have the permits to rent long term, yet did so because airbnb makes it easy and he didn't know the law.
Then he was nice and let her stay longer, which gave airbnb an out for liability.
Then she realized she had an ace up her sleeve and is milking the system to get a payout.
The net result is that this lady wins, but society loses because people will read this, and start question if it's actually worth taking advantage of SB9 and building that ADU for long-term leases, if something like this can happen if you make a single mistake with the law or rental ordinances.
This type of thing just hurts housing availability, and drives consolidation to corporate landlords.
He chose not to register his guest house as a short-term rental prior to putting it on AirBnB, even though the law had been on the books for several years before he started. But that doesn't matter, because he allowed this tenant to stay for more than 30 days, so the tenancy was not subject to the short-term rental regulations.
But even before that, he chose not to have his guest house permitted for occupancy, which requires some paperwork and a building inspection. This is probably why he didn't register his guest house as a short-term rental, but it is also the reason he's in this mess, since the lack of an occupancy permit is the reason he can't evict his tenant for nonpayment of rent. (Los Angeles's eviction moratorium ended earlier this year, see https://cityattorney.lacity.gov/tenant-protections)
He also made unpermitted changes to shower (in this context, meaning he failed to get a permit for the shower from the building department before commencing the work), which would have brought it out of compliance with the building code, even assuming it had been properly permitted for occupancy.
If the government’s statements and rules/regulations are to have any internal consistency the building should be condemned until brought up to code, and the tenant evicted for their safety.
The building was up to code. That was not the problem.
The problem is that it was permitted as an ADU, and sons of the work was not permitted, because the owner landlord was too cheap to get the proper permitting. The cure was for him to get the proper permitting, which the article makes clear he had yet to do.
Why is it a lunacy to rent out your spare unit, but not a lunacy that an agreement between two adults somehow is going to lead to someone else using your property for free indefinitely?
The ironclad assurance is a legal system, that allows you to evict when one side breaks the agreement, which failed ridiculously in this case.
By making application process very tedious, large security deposits and unwillingness of some landlords to put extra space for rent, which would work for many.
The person is saying the host stole $20k from them because they rented a property that they didn't have the legal right to rent out. Both sides say they are being stolen from.
