It gets worse. I have a Private House in Long Beach, NY They are sending out "partols" from the Building Department and using the Homeaway and Airbnb listings to go door to door to find and interrogate guests. They tell them it is illegal to rent for less than 30 days and then send me a summons to appear in court.
This is all about the Hotel and Real Estate lobbys paying off pols in Albany o crush innovation and for middle class people to leverage the internet to monetize there spare residental capacity.
New York State residence pay the highest property taxes, income taxes and business taxes in the nation to say nothing of fees on everyhting.
Unfortunately, it is not enough.
Special Interest have the pols in Albany on there payroll. The most recent and past speaker of Senate are both convicted felons. The speaker of the house is also in jail. All for Corruption.
There should be no surprise that they are outlawing innovation that benefits the common man, they stop caring about us a long time ago.
Note, Florida, Arizonia and Texas (and most Western States) are very open to home sharing. They have lower taxes and much smaller governments. They also have huge influx of new residents. Upstate (were I was born and raised) has been hallowed out and it is again, not surprise.
Tax people to death, allow coruption to run rampant, tread on people...they leave.