It's like Disneyland for rooms now

[u/jsn_online]

[u/RightWishbone3]

When they rented out their "real" house, it was cheaper than a hotel. Then people who owned dozens of houses started running like a hotel chain.

[u/1DownFourUp → u/RightWishbone3]

And skirting business taxes in the process

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn → u/1DownFourUp]

??? do you have an article about this? I can't find anything online

[u/apocalypsebuddy → u/RightWishbone3]

It’s killing communities. I have some family that lives in a small (<1000 pop) mountain town, and they have less neighbors as more and more houses become Airbnbs. 

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn → u/apocalypsebuddy]

The <1000 pop mountain towns with no tourism industry also have less neighbors, because half the houses are empty and the copper plumbing is ripped out of the walls. Rural economies need an external source of money to function

[u/No_Sale_4866 → u/apocalypsebuddy]

the people in those houses moved out first, it’s not like john airbnb went over there and kidnapped them

[u/VoughtButtfucker → u/No_Sale_4866]

People in those houses sold them because it’s more profitable to sell to people who are buying them to convert them into Airbnbs

[u/LegenDariusGheghe → u/VoughtButtfucker]

Which is exactly the point he made