Airbnb calling Boston customers to try to get them to record messages against the city council

google a search, and you'll find out. MA doesn't even make it into the top 20 states for high property taxes (Texas, Illinois and N.H. are the top 3.)

So like a BnB, where the owner buys a house with extra rooms and lives there, renting the others. Would owner occupied units be allowed unlimited rental nights per year, or could they operate the same many Bed and Breakfasts and pay hotel occupancy taxes and be subject to safety regulations. If not limited, then regualr Inns and Bed and Breakfasts where the owner lives should be treated the same.

I am in my 30's , do not have kids and am single. All I want is a place to sleep when I am not working and enough money in my pocket so I can go on vacation. I don't want to move every time a room mate thinks they fell in love. I can't afford a decent condo. I make decent money , all I want is a place to sleep.

I look at a rooming house situation and would totally buy into a safe, clean well organized version of that. Even if I had to share a bathroom, as long as I didn't have to clean it.

Unless you own property, your the ass here. Speaking of something you have no knowledge of. Oh wait, now you want to tell us you're a landlord now? Joke!

You know what you are, your're the rent who's crying to the government in order to slow down the price of housing. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE PRICES PUNK, then you need to move your ass to New Hampshire where it's cheap! If you can't survive in this state like the rest of us then move your whiny ass out! I pay WAY more taxes then you do buddy!

See, you don't even make sense, "Landlords have been gobbling up inventory above market price, because they know they can still make a killing renting with airbnb".

First, you sound extremely pissed because you're one of many who still rent in Boston. This is no ones fault!!!! Landlords such as myself, bought in undesirable neighborhoods when the rest of the Assachusetts suckers felt either unsafe, scared or just didn't want to live around certain ethnic backgrounds , if were being truthful. Landlords like me essentially did the same thing the gays did in the South End back in the early 70's & 80's when no one wanted to buy those brownstones. Now, those are worth millions of dollars and those rents are through the roof! Are you going to blame that on Airbnb as well? Exactly! Boston rents have been high for years and will continue to grow. What people like you are mad about is the fact that the rental prices are being increased in other area's outside of downtown proper i.e. back bay, south end etc.

Individuals like you, want to consistently regulate everything because it effects you negatively. What if I said, people who drive while listening to music are distracted and it negatively impacts other drivers? Does this now mean that I should petition the city to regulate your music volume levels while you drive?

You made no clear or concise argument on why regulation is needed. You just typed your emotions on a computer. I hit you with clear facts about tax payments and how our income is documented thus forcing us to be honest and pay our fair share of taxes. I also stated that as an owner of two multi-family properties, I DO NOT utilize Airbnb and only rent to families. However, you have yet to say anything that refutes my statement of landlords who accept cash, checks, money orders etc. not documenting their actual income. Which happens all the time.

As a landlord, and I speak for several of us, the ones who actually create the increase in rental prices are College Students!!!! Take a look at Brighton, Allston, Back Bay, North End, South Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill. It's been documented. Those same college students are now moving to Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park etc. As an example, a unit that I have which became vacant because a long-term renter who bought a home, I had an applicant from an undergraduate who wanted to move into a three bedroom with two roommates. Where this apartment is located, I could have easily charged $3500 a month for this unit. Do you know how much I was charging the family prior who moved and bought a home? $1650 for 5 years. Do you know how much I am charging the new family of 4 who lives their now $1850!

So shut up! Unless you own rental property in the City of Boston, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't dislike Airbnb because of the supposed cause of rental increase, I don't like Airbnb because it doesn't create a sense of community. However this is my property and my choice and just because I don't like it doesn't mean other landlords should have to be regulated. Hell, I don't like the fact that rents have gone up in Mission Hill and students from Northeastern, Wentworth etc, move in those unites for 9-12 months and then leave when those units could go to families. But are we now going to tell a landlord they can not rent to college students because they drive up our rents and decrease our sense of community?

Exactly! If you don't like it, move or buy a home.