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It's true. The model for startups these days is to get millions of dollars of funding and spend it all on lawyers who can negotiate your ability to work around laws and regulations. While many of those laws and regulations have no place existing, it still feels sad to me.

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>While many of those laws and regulations have no place existing

I suppose you wouldn't mind living next to this place then - http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airbnb-party-hou...

I like my neighbors (except one... that's a different story...) They are friendly. We help each other clean off our cars in the winter. We check on each other's mail, pets, plants, and houses while we are on vacation. We help each other carry heavy items into the house. We are known to each other. I personally wouldn't feel safe with neighbors who revolve every day who have no ties to the community that we built.

Not to mention I wouldn't want to pay double rent because of all the houses that are taken off the market.

You would not have this opinion if you have ever had to deal with someone illegally subletting their apartment.

Or lived basically anywhere which has uni students.

Why? I'm not suggesting all regulation should disappear, just that it's inarguable that some regulation out there is wrong.

I think the point is that individual locations should be free to set their own regulations - at the building level at least. But city or state-wide ordnances against subletting or ride-sharing are too broad and allow certain actors to amass too much monopoly power.

>But city or state-wide ordnances against subletting

Many places (like NY for example) actually have laws that expressly protect tenants rights to sublet.

Landlord tenant laws mostly are there to protect the tenant from unfair slumlords.

That's just prejudice. Our renters (we own, not sublet) are and have been mostly college students and I wouldn't mind living with most of them. In fact, our biggest problem was with a working mother, who left our place half destroyed.

>Or lived basically anywhere which has uni students.

I've never had a problem with uni students in the city I used to live in and a couple lived in my building.

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