Fighting Party Houses - They're Bad for Normal Hosts

David7439
Level 2
New York, NY

Fighting Party Houses - They're Bad for Normal Hosts

In my neighborhood in Austin, there is a company called UrbanStay that is going around, spending millions buying up a bunch of houses, and turning them into party houses that look and are marketed like clubs. They are specifically marketing them to parties of 15+ people on instagram and their own website:

https://urbanstay.us

https://www.instagram.com/urbanstayatx/

 

I've been reporting them, but nothing every happens. It seems Airbnb is not very motivated to put a stop to these, but they should be!

I am a super host of a place in rural Hudson Valley, NY. Across the Hudson Valley, regulations are being enacted to cutdown on Airbnb's citing places like Austin's rampant corporatization of neighborhoods. I was taking part in a battle in a small town that was trying to shut down our small airbnb (which there are no parties at, just quiet couples escaping NYC) and they specifically cited Austin as a reason they need regulations.

 

Airbnb needs to have an aggressive stance towards these types of corporate hosts building party houses that create huge neighborhood disturbances, and also create knock-on effects of stricter regulations being enacted across the country because of a few abusive and greedy corporatists.

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Helen3
Level 10
Bristol, United Kingdom

Rather confused how exactly are you expecting Airbnb to put a stop to a separate company marketing stays through their own channels @David7439 ?

 

Unless they market through Airbnb which they don't appear to from the links you have provided - this is something to talk to your local government about.

They are listed on Airbnb as well.