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To: Road Walker who wrote (36574)	5/6/2014 11:29:20 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Regulation also gives start ups the opportunity to bypass regulation by reinventing the light bulb. Startups like airbnb shouldn't have to break laws that shouldn't exist as the foundation of their business model. In NYC and SFO they are having to scrap with regulators and with competitors who use the bogus regulations against them. And it isn't like we're talking about fireproof drapes. There are people who are willing to do whatever is necessary to comply, simply to offset some of their rent, and they are met with a brick wall where their option is to either not do it or to break the law. And of course you're going to have some lawbreakers, and some of those are likely to totally ignore safety considerations. The taxicab company (I can't remember it, either) is even more absurd. Why should a select group of people with deep pockets be the only taxi providers in a major city? If you will defend the insanity of the Medallion system for taxis I'll just give up.

To: Road Walker who wrote (36574)	5/6/2014 11:58:03 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Regulation often has gotten in the way of VRBO, airbnb and Uber (probably the company your thinking of, but there are others serving that market), and van services, as well as competition using the same old forms (potential new entrents in to the taxi market are locked out of many cities unless they want to operate illegally). Regulators often don't like new attempts to work around the area they cover, so they seek to expand the area they cover instead when something new that competes with those they regulate comes out. In addition to the regulators generally wanting to control things the entrenched incumbants push for such control to weaken, limit, or even forbid the new competition. ---------- Grand Rapids, Mich. is Charging Residents Over $2,000 to Rent on Airbnb ij.org Rent Your Apartment, Break the Law reason.com New York Controversy: A crackdown on "no-tels" current.newsweek.com I've limited that to links from posts I've already made and just airbnb, not even looking to other companies. But its not just airbnb that has such problems and its not just in the places and times mentioned in that posts that regulators and politicians and incumbant businesses are acting against airbnb.