Brickbat: No Short Trips

In New York, the Southampton Village Board banned short-term rentals, requiring a minimum two-week stay for all homes in the area. Officials said the move is aimed at stopping noisy weekend parties by short-term renters that were bothering locals. Some full-time locals are happy about the quieter vibe. But those renting on Airbnb fear it'll kill their business, and restaurant owners worry there will be fewer visitors, hurting the economy. Even before the ban, rentals this summer dropped 30 percent.

Comments

[Chumby]

Locals just need to have marching bands perform just outside the BnBs at 3;00 am.

[Vernon Depner]

Just supply neighbors with some flash-bangs to fire into noisy parties.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

North Carolina's Outer Banks winning.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Everything has a tradeoff. Luckily you have government to create winners and losers.

[GroundTruth]

I've never been there, but to the best of my knowledge, Southampton is not Las Vegas, New Orleans, South Beach. If you want to have a large, loud party, go to those places. I'm all for free market capitalism and private property, but there is also such a thing as trying to be a good neighbor.... and renting out a "party house" in an otherwise quiet neighborhood is not being a good neighbor.

[Incunabulum]

You are making an assumption that the complaints are true.

[Vernon Depner]

Have you ever lived in a neighborhood with many Airbnbs? It's a fair assumption that the complaints are true.

[Longtobefree]

No more sympathy.
New York deserves what it votes for.

If you want to rent through airbnb, or run a restaurant, move out of New York.

[Vernon Depner]

If you want to rent through airbnb, or run a restaurant, move out of New York.

'Nuff said.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

We all know who they are trying to keep out of the neighborhood.

[Vernon Depner]

Anybody who can't afford to live there?

[Incunabulum]

Is this another story about 'net benefit' where the people suffering losses are supposed to just shut the fuck up so others can make money?

[Vernon Depner]

If you want quiet, build your own neighborhood!

[Chumby]

Yup. Why I live in a forest. Haven’t seen any of my neighbors in years. Maybe they AirBnB. Maybe they have orgies. Have no idea and don’t care.