Airbnb makes downtown buildings into hotels
This is not the first and won’t be the last item about how Airbnb rentals can dominate apartment buildings and make them unpleasant for the remaining regular tenants. “Those responsible for the units will also have to pay business and property taxes starting May 1” says the item, but what about up till now? Have we not seen promises to tighten up on Airbnb before this?
Update: Rosemont borough has decided to outlaw Airbnb except for Plaza St-Hubert.
Ephraim 13:51 on 2020-02-11 Permalink
Revenu Quebec asked for the portfolio but isn’t doing their job. We don’t seem to have a law on the books requiring a government office to actually enforce the law. This “Edris” needs to have a sign for the rentals on the outside of the building… and he’s in the realm of having to collect and pay GST/QST… but is he?
So… how do you force Revenu Quebec to actually do it’s job? The fines are $2500 to $5000 a day… but only if they do their job.
dwgs 15:44 on 2020-02-11 Permalink
This isn’t a Montreal story but it’s related, Kate, feel free to delete if you wish. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
Raymond Lutz 12:20 on 2020-02-12 Permalink
woah… dwgs article reads like a thriller! Only murders are missing 😎
Douglas 19:58 on 2020-02-12 Permalink
The last building I lived in had over 100 airbnb operators inside out of 250 apartments!!
Lockboxes on every single 2nd door.
Cleaning people using the elevators to go back and forth between floors constantly. Always waiting for elevators.
I heard one of the operators brag to another operator that he had 14 apartments. I filed my notice to leave the building shortly after.
New management came and jacked up the rents for all airbnb operators by about 200$ a month to get rid of them.
Never living in an airbnb complex again.