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By Ben the Blogger: ” I always circle back to one important question regarding Airbnb. Would I want one next door to my house or condo? The answer of course is no. The mere thought of bachelor parties, family reunions, and other vacationers keeping my up at night 7 days a week is chilling. Don’t get me wrong, I like to party as much as anyone else, but there’s a time and a place. I think Airbnb has a future, but it needs regulation to help protect home owners and neighborhoods. What do you think about Airbnb’s in residential areas?”
Complaints are starting to roll in on the Internet from Florida, New Orleans, and all over Europe. Neptune Township should study this issue before it ruins our neighborhoods.
I got a T shirt on Father’s Day, It says “It’s always something.” I wore it on the OG boardwalk that day, and everyone was reading my chest and smiling.
How true it is—-PG
CAROL HANEY from “The Pajama Game.”
Very, very true Taxed without Representation.
I’m surrounded by Airbnbs. It seems as if each bedroom renter arrives in their own car. These rental homes unfairly take away from our quality of life. There is a huge difference between being on the premises, and renting out a room in your home, and handing over the keys of a shareable multi bedroom house.
I don’t see how any of these issues are Airbnb specific. I can have, and have had, my neighbor’s summer rental rented to a Rutgers fraternity for a number of years since before AirBNB. Sure they get a little rowdy occasionally, but simply talking to them always resolves any issues, which are rare.
There are good rentals and bad, but the means by which they find the property isn’t the issue. Every problem that has been given that allegedly stems from Airbnb alone has a solution, and the usually involves simple things like talking to your neighbor, and if that doesn’t work, calling the Police Department and having them cite the offense under an existing ordinance does.
Editor’s note: Joe. You may be correct. We are watching this issue to see if a case is made that Airbnb (and other similar services) is any different from other sorts of short-term home rentals.
Neptune seems to be currently viewing them all the same in spite of their comments to the Coaster in April (see our post about the Neptune Committee meeting of 6/25) Some say that ultra short-term rentals of, let’s say, 1-3 days produce difficulties that longer rentals do not, but so far the argument that such rentals specifically ruin neighborhoods remains unproven.
Short term rentals stink. Never know what you’re getting and for someone who works people partying until 1 AM doesn’t work for me. While some “guests” are low key, OG is becoming one frat party after another. Check the streets in the morning.
Ha! When I lived in Ocean Grove from 2011-2012 I lived next door to a halfway house. I’ll take vacation renters any day.