New York passes bill making it illegal to advertise entire apartments on Airbnb
On the general issue of if something like AirBnB should be allowed I&#x27;m mixed but on the specific of AirBnB they&#x27;re an evil company in my experience.<p>They aren&#x27;t even trying not to be evil. They are trying to take ZERO responsibility for anything. They don&#x27;t care how much their hosts lie and take zero efforts to hold hosts accountable for their lies.<p>I&#x27;ve rented places that claimed to be 1 bed room but were actually a studio. I&#x27;ve rented places that claimed to have &quot;parking on premises&quot; but didn&#x27;t. I&#x27;ve rented places that claimed to include internet but didn&#x27;t. The latest is I rented a place the claimed to be at a certain location but was actually several blocks away. When I complained the AirBnB rep told me it was company policy to allowed hosts to lie about their locations because putting actual locations on the internet would be dangerous. When I pointed out Redfin, Craigslist, VRBO, etc don&#x27;t have such a BS policy he claimed it was one reason AirBnB is more successful. In other words, because they allow lying they are more successful.<p>If they ever start taking some responsibility, say fining lying hosts or banning them from the site or marking their ratings down maybe I&#x27;ll start rooting for them but until then I hope they get banned.