I rented my Manhattan studio for a month using a Craigslist post. It took less than 10 minutes to make the post, and the place was rented by the end of the day. I had no pictures, and five sentences describing my place. As another poster has already mentioned, Airbnb just made the process safer and more efficient. That efficiency has final affected the bottom-line on hotels, making this a political move. New York will never be "Silicon Alley" with moves like this.