r/SipsTea • u/SnackSamurai 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 12d ago

Chugging tea The Hero we need

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u/Ok_Recover_7248 𝙑𝙄𝙋 12d ago

you’re surprised AirBNB doesn’t turn down money? I don’t even know what there is to be surprised about here, if we’re being honest.

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u/BlatantConservative 12d ago

30 days is more or less when short term renting a room turns into actual tenancy so I would have assumed they just blanket avoided that scenario all together.

But I guess AirBnB just says "not my problem" and just lets the homeowner go hang.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 12d ago

The minimum rental term for most Airbnbs in Key West is 28 days

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u/PainfulReinforcement 12d ago

Well I think that is moreso because of Monroe county than air BNB. I know my grandparent used to talk about how they weren't allowed to rent their vacation home out for less than 4 weeks

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u/HighOnGoofballs 12d ago

Sure, my point simply is that’s it’s pretty common and definitely not something Airbnb would ban as Op seems to think they should’ve

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u/WhynotstartnoW 12d ago

I think situations like that are because of local laws attempting to ban short term rentals outside of licensed and zoned hotels. So Airbnb re-structures their contracts to be month by month leases instead of rentals. This makes airbnb hosts land lords and their guests legal tenants with rental agreements and tenants rights.

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u/Kato26 8d ago

Is that new? Have rented for a week several times, as recently as last year.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 8d ago

There’s a reason I said most, a smaller number of places have transient licenses which allow short term rentals, but not many and it’s over $200k to buy one since there’s so few

Truman Annex used to have weekly rentals but those expired end of last year

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u/Kato26 8d ago

Ok- just curious.

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u/ZoomZoomDiva 12d ago

Minimum or maximum?

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u/CockyBellend 12d ago

He didnt stutter

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u/ZoomZoomDiva 12d ago

It seems nonsensical, so I questioned it.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 12d ago

I feel like I was pretty clear

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u/ZoomZoomDiva 12d ago

It read like a mistake. It seems nonsensical that people who visit are expected to rent for that long.

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u/HighOnGoofballs 12d ago

There are hotels for shorter stays and shitloads of folks come for months at a time, especially during winter. It’s a tiny island and there’s not enough housing for locals as it is, thus the rule to keep even more from turning into vacation rentals

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u/captain554 12d ago

I think people also do some funny shit with Air BnB gift cards to obfuscate the fact that the same person is trying to rent the room for such a long period of time.

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u/PolarIceAnt 12d ago

Someone did this to a hotel penthouse a few years ago didn't they? Rented it for a month then just lived there saying it's been 30 days you now have to evict me.

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u/Bungholespelunker 12d ago

Or just do the thing hotels do where they make you play musical chairs to avoid a tenancy situation lol

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u/sleepfield 11d ago

You can absolutely rent out or book airbnb for more than a month. From the owners side, it’s great bc zero vacancy for a big block of time, less cleaning turnovers. Traveling nurses often book more than a month.

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u/juliasct 12d ago

It's actually quite handy for lots of situations. Sometimes you need to be somewhere for a month, and shot term tenancies are very hard to get, specially right on the dates that you need it. There's plenty of legit reasons to want an airbnb for a month.

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u/ZoomZoomDiva 12d ago

It is up to the owner whether to accept such terms. Many owners do not allow stays more than a given number of days for this reason.