B. Leokt's Profile

The law against renting your home for fewer than 29 days isn't new. It's actually a few years old - but that is besides the point. The difference between that and other laws has to do with timing and numbers. If people are transient, it is hard to hold them responsible for their actions; and a family home built for four or six shouldn't be holding 15 or 20.

If I wanted to live next door to a bar, I would have moved to a different neighbourhood. It's my right to be protected from people who think that because they have paid money for something (ie, bought or rented a property), they can do whatever they like; call it "creeping egotistical libertarianism" if that helps.

Essentially, the illegal hotel law means that when the Air BnB "owner" passes the buck to his "tenants", and tells me he can't stop them from misbehaving, I have a means to hold him, rather than them, responsible, and I appreciate that.

Are NY hotels too expensive? Yes. Is letting my neighbour run an unregulated business out of his home - with no fire inspections, etc - the solution? I believe it isn't.

Also ugly.

How do you extract essential oil from mint?

Surely "objets oranges"?

In a way, the first one is a limitation, isn't it? A chair, after all, can be a horse or a boat or a million other things to an inventive child... but make it look like a house, and it's stuck being a house.

Some of these are held in place by a suction cup... irony.

Summer's over, kids...

Do we really want to help encourage people to buy more? Boo!

I'd just be sure to make my bed before entertaining, and not worry about it.

By the way a mix of half alcohol and half veneer thinner is rumored to be very good for cleaning stained wood.