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Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on from the you-bet-they-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A group of leading U.S. property owners, including AvalonBay Communities and Camden Property Trust, have met with lodging rental site Airbnb to discuss ways that they can get a cut of their renters' income. The tech company has faced obstacles to its growth, with residents putting their leases in jeopardy by renting out their places to Airbnb users as temporary accommodation – a form of illegal subletting. A future agreement between owners and tenants could mean renters no longer need to take a risk when letting their apartments on the site.

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  1. Re:Double dipping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You made your bed, fucking sleep in it.

    Can't, it's being sub-let for the next four nights.

  2. Analogy, please by Sloppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Slashdot, so we need analogies.

    Say I have a KVM Linode, and then "WebBnB" wants an LXC container on my Linode, and they're running Apache in their container, and serving up several VirtualHost websites for their customers. WebBnB needs to charge their customers for the websites, so I can charge them, and Linode can charge me extra. And we all take a cut, thereby making WebBnB the stupidest and most expensive webhosting company ever, so the customers leave 'em and start doing business directly with Linode. Problem solved.

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  3. CompStak wants a share of PlayStation revenues by tlambert · · Score: 1, Funny

    In related news...

    CompStak wants a share of PlayStation revenues.

    CompStak is the CRE (Commercial Real Estate) company that leases the 2207 Bridgepointe Pkwy, San Mateo, CA building to Sony Entertainment for the production of software for the Sony PlayStation, including their FreeBSD based operating systems development.

    They are upset that their renters are making money through their least of their property, and have decided they want a cut of the revenues that result from the business done by their lessees.

    Just like the landlords of properties their lessees are occasionally renting out via Airbnb.

    Oh wait.

    Now both demands seem ridiculous...