Tag: Short Term Rental

ana033: Tim Battles Town Hall | Tom Woods Interviews Tim | Short Term Rental Ordinance

We released episode ana027: 11 SPOOKY Fears about Short Term Rentals | ASSUAGED! on Halloween in 2019. Hours later, there was a multiple homicide at an Airbnb renter’s Halloween party in Orinda, CA. Tim wrote a blog post discussing this incident with a view towards understanding what went so wrong.

In November 2019, Tom Woods interviewed Tim about the Orinda shooting and the broader topic of short term rentals. This was a more succinct presentation of our earlier episode, but they also covered some new ground.

Since then, Tim has spent over a year arguing against new regulations on short term rentals in his home town in Maine. At the same time, he renovated his basement into an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) for short-term rental in a race against the clock.

This episode starts with Tim’s interview on The Tom Woods Show, and then Tim reveals all the gory reality of small town politics. We close out with some profound lessons learned for libertarian principles and strategy.

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Who is Responsible for the Orinda Airbnb Shooting?

It is a regrettable coincidence that we released an Anarchitecture Podcast episode lightheartedly mocking certain “fears” about short-term rentals just hours before a shooting at an Airbnb unit in Orinda, California took the lives of five people on October 31, 2019. Our hearts are heavy for the families of Tiyon Farley, Omar Taylor, Ramon Hill Jr., Javin County, Oshiana Tompkins, and others who were injured. 

However, some of the arguments we made in our episode can help to shed light on what was done wrong, by whom, and some possible approaches to reducing these kinds of risks in the future. In our Halloween episode #27 of Anarchitecture Podcast, titled “#ana027: 11 Spooky Fears About Short-Term Rentals – ASSUAGED!!!” I talked about my experience as an Airbnb host, and we addressed a list of concerns about short-term home rentals that have motivated bans and other legal restrictions on short-term rentals across the country. These “fears” ranged from effects on housing affordability to fire safety concerns to licensure requirements to noise and other nuisances. We concluded that there are generally building code and licensure requirements that place some reasonable limits on the number of occupants in a single-family home rental, and proposed a “home rental mediation” service to mediate nuisance complaints between hosts and neighbors.

Let’s start with some facts of the case as they have been reported:

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ana027: 11 Spooky Fears About Short-Term Rentals | ASSUAGED!!!

Tim rents his home as a short-term rental on summer weekends. Why is this so scary to everyone else?

We discuss eleven fears about short-term rentals, one of which is legitimate. Fear not, we have a non-governmental solution for that one. All others will be #ASSUAGED!!!

11 Fears About Short Term Home Rentals

  • Fear #1 – Home rentals hurt a town’s “character”
  • Fear #2 – Home rentals make housing less affordable
  • Fear #3 – Home rentals are unsafe
  • Fear #4 – Home rentals are not in compliance with building codes
  • Fear #5 – Home rentals are not licensed and inspected as lodging places
  • Fear #6 – Home rentals are preparing and serving food without a license
  • Fear #7 – Home rentals are not ADA / FHA compliant for accessibility for people with disabilities
  • Fear #8 – Home rentals do not have adequate insurance
  • Fear #9 – Home rentals are not paying taxes
  • Fear #10 – Home rentals are unfair competition to hotels
  • Fear #11 – Home rentals are creating nuisances

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