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EwanToo on Nov 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise of Airbnb's Full-Time Landlords

If I was the person in charge of enforcing it, I would probably do something like:

  1 - Make it illegal for Airbnb style services to operate in that area, including making a website available, advertising the service, taking listings in that region, etc
  2 - Threaten to jail or heavily fine senior employees if law broken
  3 - Offer a legal route which involves an audit trail of bookings being supplied to the local gov
  4 - Use audit trail to deal with rule-breaking landlords

Steps 1 and 2 are essentially how the US government deals with foreign gambling websites.

psaintla on Nov 10, 2015 [–]

That's a lot to ask from a local government.

EwanToo on Nov 17, 2015 | [–]

For New York state government (or equivalent) though?

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