Post by High Priestess on Nov 23, 2017 16:44:27 GMT
Yet another popular vacation destination and yet another fight over Airbnb guests..
www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/21/16678002/airbnb-nashville
It seems Nashville is one of the top party destination cities:
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www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/21/16678002/airbnb-nashville
An Airbnb rental near Vanderbilt University, complete with a hot tub in the backyard. It’s “unbelievable,” one of the young women says before they disappear into the night.
These are the people — not just the bachelorette parties but the guys getting into fights in line for the club, the woman being held up by two friends as they help her to an Uber car, the youthful horde dancing to a house version of “Sandstorm” on the sweaty dance floor of the local bar — that some Nashville residents don’t want returning to their quiet neighborhoods once the bars close. Just a few years ago, these revelers would have largely been corralled into expensive hotels in Nashville’s downtown or cheaper lodging on the outskirts of the city. But thanks to home-sharing platforms, Nashville’s tourists are now weekend neighbors with the city’s long-term inhabitants. Conflict between the two groups has reached a boiling point.
These are the people — not just the bachelorette parties but the guys getting into fights in line for the club, the woman being held up by two friends as they help her to an Uber car, the youthful horde dancing to a house version of “Sandstorm” on the sweaty dance floor of the local bar — that some Nashville residents don’t want returning to their quiet neighborhoods once the bars close. Just a few years ago, these revelers would have largely been corralled into expensive hotels in Nashville’s downtown or cheaper lodging on the outskirts of the city. But thanks to home-sharing platforms, Nashville’s tourists are now weekend neighbors with the city’s long-term inhabitants. Conflict between the two groups has reached a boiling point.
It seems Nashville is one of the top party destination cities:
The city has issued more than 450 short-term rental permits to residents in East Nashville, second only to the downtown district. And hundreds more rentals are thought to be operating illegally in the area. All told, Nashville is estimated to have more than 4,500 such rentals throughout the city — Portland, which is similar in size, has just 3,000.
More than a thousand homes in the city that could house long-term residents have instead been registered as full-time short-term rentals, sometimes hosting bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and other potentially rowdy groups. The bachelorette scene, in particular, has become a well-documented phenomenon, landing Nashville on plenty of “Hottest Party Destination” lists and spurring a cottage industry of bach-planning services. Bachelorettes, Airbnb, and Nashville have become so inexorably linked that a developer is planning a 210-guest hotel in East Nashville that will accept bookings exclusively through the rental platform. The name? Bridal Suites Hotel.
More than a thousand homes in the city that could house long-term residents have instead been registered as full-time short-term rentals, sometimes hosting bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and other potentially rowdy groups. The bachelorette scene, in particular, has become a well-documented phenomenon, landing Nashville on plenty of “Hottest Party Destination” lists and spurring a cottage industry of bach-planning services. Bachelorettes, Airbnb, and Nashville have become so inexorably linked that a developer is planning a 210-guest hotel in East Nashville that will accept bookings exclusively through the rental platform. The name? Bridal Suites Hotel.
But some residents, especially in East Nashville, have had enough. They’re backing regulations that would ban non-owner-occupied short-term rentals outright in residential neighborhoods by 2021.