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Actually I suppose this same rhetorical question applies even if the person who is renting is not in the apartment. Are they prevented from leaving their keys with friends when they are away on a trip so their friends can stay in the apartment?
People who own an entire building could theoretically allow someone to rent out a room while they are living there. But with the price of NYC real estate, it's unlikely. Plus as the person staying there, you have no way of knowing if the building is "safe" according to fire laws, or whether the person you're renting from has proper insurance in case of problems.
There are quite a few rentals available in single-family-owned townhouses, which are presumably legal. I know 2 sets of owners who do this--one in the East Village and one in Harlem. I posted a link here for one of these apartments (in West Harlem) last year, but will not do so again since I got so much nasty feedback from one particcular poster here who all but accused me of shilling for the owners. But a search travel agents in hawaii on any of the large rental sites will find quite a few offerings, particularly travel agents in hawaii in Harlem townhouses.
1) if it is a rental it's not allowed by the lease and the renter can be evicted (landlords are always looking for ways to evict current tenants from many apartment that are rent stabilized so they can raise the rent)
2) if it is a condo or a co-op - a huge number of buildings - the by laws most probably do not allow this - and the owner of the apartment can be fined - or forced to sell if they continue to rent against the corporation rules
As for people renting a room in their private house - yes, there are some of those. I would not say quite a few - but in that case one would need to determine that the person you are subletting from is actually the owner of the townhouse.
Of course there is a need for regulations but NYC has gone overboard. In this case, the roomate, a full time tenant was present, so where is the problem? Considering the history of boarding houses in this country, and this city, it is a gosh darned shame, and shame on the legislators that fell for the lobbyists argument that such stringent laws were to the benefit of the residents of all of Manhattan and its burroughs.
NYC operates under a system of rent stabilization. Under this system the rents the landlords can charge for many apartments (I believe those less than $2000 per month are controlled by law.) If one tenant leaves and a new one rents the apartment the landlord can then increase the rent accordingly. So - for people to sublet their apartments is actually travel agents in hawaii taking them artificially off the market - if the renter travel agents in hawaii isn't living there they should move out - so another renter has a place to live and the landlord can collect the higher rent.
So - it is done to be fair to both the landlords and the renters (there is a major shortage of lower priced apartments in NYC - and someone subletting an apartment they aren't using - is a problem travel agents in hawaii for everyone.)
Some people won't be swayed by the knowledge that they might be scammed, or stay in a sub-par place, or be out of luck when an apartment is raided and have to find some place to stay at the last minute. But some of those same people (including those who think it should be legal) might be swayed by the risk they pose to the people whose apartment they are staying in.
For other people, the opposite is true. They just want to know if they would be considered guilty of any crime if they are the short term renter, and they don't worry about the person from whom they rent.
Both tenants are apparently renters.We don't even know if the roommate is considered a tenant (his/her travel agents in hawaii name is on the lease) or if they're fudging that too. But in any case, renters in most places do not have the right to do absolutely anything they want with an apartment, just the right to rent the space.
Now if the landlord specifically travel agents in hawaii allowed it (in writing) and the other roommate (if he/she is legally considered a tenant)stayed in the apartment and actually consented (the article says something like "he was OK with it", which could mean he felt like he couldn't say no or risk being thrown out himself), then maybe you'd have one of the uncommon legit situations.
People from other places may not understand, or like it - but it is what it is. (In most of the country it is not difficult to rent a decent apartment for less than $1500 per month - to the point that people sublet illegally to try to hang onto one if they leave for a period of time.)
Yes there are many issues, but legislation, rather then address those issues chose to broad stroke a ban on short term rentals. If you want to believe that the hospitality industry was not involved intimately in that legislation, well then that is your perogative to be naive. The industry was and is very much involved.
I use "subletting" just to mean you are the renter, and you are renting it to another person, whether for one night or for months. The law in question deals with short term so is the most relevant, but I was using an analogy to say that renters just don't have certain rights, including the ability to let other people pay to stay in "their" apartment.
I've just pointed out that people need to know that laws are in place and can cause all sorts of trouble on both ends. I did not talk about whether my building does this or that or any personal travel agents in hawaii experiences with the situation. Nothing about "condescend(ing) to people outside your neighborhood that we don't understand the housing market or the real estate market in NYC"
It's a heated travel agents in hawaii issue as I've said before. I think people travel agents in hawaii should know that and not necessarily be convinced to flout a law when they don't know what it may mean to them and to others. Nothing more, nothing travel agents in hawaii less.
If a landlord/Homeowners association/etc. doesn't want to have a tenant go on a long trip and sublet the apartment/condo, there is a specific and often-used clause, a prohibition against sub-leasing clause, which can be included in the contract that every renter has to sign.
The airbnb situation is entirely different. This is someone who want to rent out his/her place for one/more nights and to make a little money. Maybe the person has recently travel agents in hawaii gone through a divorce and wants to rent out one of two bedrooms on a very temporary basis to make up for the loss of the ex-spouse's income. Why should that person be forced to move miles away to a cheaper place?
If people want to do whatever they want with their own property - then they need to buy a private house - not rent an apartment or buy a condo or co-op - that come with very clearly travel agents in hawaii defined rules and regulations.
I can see how you feel that way, because I had a heck of a time finding a place too. But the real problem is that Manhattan's just not that big of an island. Speaking travel agents in hawaii of which, Tokyo isn't exactly known for being cheap either.
The place we rented travel agents in hawaii in Astoria Queens was for 14 days, it was one apartment in a building of 6. The owner used to live in it herself but now lives two blocks away. She owns other properties too that she rents out as holiday homes. Are the rules any different in Queens travel agents in hawaii or do all the boroughs come under the same law?
Absolutely travel agents in hawaii wrong. As nytraveler points out, it is for the protection of other tenants against partying, vast numbers of people showing up to stay at an apartment rented for two, and illegal activities like prostitution, drug sales and even, yes, temporary meth labs.
For ten years, we owned a condo in a high rise in Boston. After many years, the association succeeded in banning short term rentals for these very reasons. Doormen travel agents in hawaii were no longer allowed to pass on keys, even to "friends" and "relatives", and we enforced occupancy limits even when the owner was present.
Because some owners depended on rental for income and found themselves needing to sublet, we did permit sublets of six months or longer. Our condo in Naples, Florida had a minimum sublet of three months. Both were enforced by fines against owners.
The entire state of New York comes under these rules. And either the landlord was lying to you or she just doesn't understand the rules. (There sometimes are different rules for very small building in terms of longer term rentals.)
travel agents in hawaii And the problem is that everyone wants to stay in Manhattan, which has very high real estate costs, high construction costs, high property taxes and high wages versus much of the country - esp the new notell motel out by the side of some highway - where rooms can be huge because land is basically free.
Building size doesn't affect the applicability of the NYS law about short-term rentals. Only people who live in private homes or large apartments (and continue to reside in them) are allowed to rent out rooms, and I think even the ground there is difficult to navigate. If it's an apartment, then your building bylaws must allow the nightly rentals (renters are NEVER allowed to rent out nightly since there's a prohibition on sublets that are not approved in writing by the landlord in the standard NYS apartment lease).
Yes, they do. But the number of private homes in Manhattan is minute (Gracie Mansion?) and the number of private townhouses is extremely limited (and they generally cost from $5 million travel agents in hawaii up - often way up - so few owners are interested in letting out rooms.)
There was just a report of an apartment scam in NYC on another (nameless) travel board. Despite advice travel agents in hawaii to the contrary a renter sent money in advance for the rental of an apartment. The poster travel agents in hawaii believed the story of the rental agent that they were able to circumvent the law by putting together a number of people who, together would be renting for more than a month, even though travel agents in hawaii each rental was for a limited time (obviously travel agents in hawaii illegal under the law). Also suspicious was that the web site and emails has obviously been created by someone whose English was odd/poor, they did not provide exact address or landline phone, did not give the full name and contact info for a lo