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NotoriousAirbnb
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What's TikTok investing and brotrepreneur house hoarding in look like? You'll know it when you see it 🙃

San Diego, California, USA
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notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
No housing shortage.

Another San Diego starter home flipped to short-term rental. Bought November 2025, on Airbnb by December.

Buyer doesn't appear to live in San Diego.
Screenshots of Zillow listing on left sold Nov 7, 2025, Airbnb listing of the same house on right at $1579 for 3 nights.
December 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
SOMEBODY lived in this 4-unit San Diego apt building before it was wholly converted to Airbnb.

Operated by Fouad Bazzi, a "real estate investor" who appears to live in Chicago. His company Crescent Retreats has 42 listings on Airbnb.

airbnb.com/users/show/4...
Front of a 4 unit apartment building in San Diego converted to Airbnb Crescent Retreats employee team
May 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
Riverside County Board of Supervisors has passed a 45-day moratorium on any more (licensed) Airbnbs in Thousand Palms, Calfornia.

kesq.com/news/2025/03...
Supervisors approve moratorium on short-term rentals in Thousand Palms
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) - The Board of Supervisors approved a 45-day moratorium on the issuance of short-term rental certificates in Thousand Palms and the nearby Coachella Valley community known as ...
kesq.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
Austin has almost 14,000 Airbnb listings as per insideairbnb.com

Only 2,200 short-term rental licenses have been issued.

kut.org/housing/2025-02-10/austin-tx-short-term-rentals-airbnb-vrbo-licensing-rules
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
4,490 Airbnb listings in Montreal are certainly driving up property values and rents.
February 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
The city having to remove 8,000 illegal listings from platforms like Airbnb is absurd.

Since there are 9,400 short-term rental listings in San Diego.
insideairbnb.com/san-diego/
https://insideairbnb.com/san-diego/ map showing 9369 short term rentals
February 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Reposted by NotoriousAirbnb
lapublicpress.bsky.social
In January, some Airbnb hosts more than tripled nightly rates as evacuees from the Eaton and Palisades fires scrambled to find temporary housing.

There are more than 3,200 documented cases of illegal price gouging in LA County’s short-term rental market.
Did some Airbnb hosts raise rents too high after LA fires?
Housing activists accuse rental giant of excessive payment hikes.
lapublicpress.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
Airbnb regulations: "the city has processed more than 2,200 complaints and pulled over 8,000 listings from rental platforms"

Since going into effect 2 years ago.
(San Diego Union Tribune)
itty.bitty.site/San-Diego-ne...
Screenshot of the headline and aerial daytime shot of crown point in san diego facing south
February 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
30% of short-term rental licenses in Mission Beach, San Diego are issued on parcels owned by corporations.

Airbnb is big business.
Graphs showing the number of licenses issued in Mission Beach San Diego and their ownership type.
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
There is no housing shortage.

Sean Boren & Carla Boren own 5 properties in San Diego, 3 of which are on Airbnb full-time, totaling 5 units.

This Airbnb duplex bought in 2021, would have made a nice set of homes. (over $300/night)
airbnb.com/rooms/110245...
airbnb.com/rooms/109777...
Airbnb listing showing $960 for 3 nights. Airbnb listing showing $960 for 3 nights and hot tub.
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by NotoriousAirbnb
cyndicate.bsky.social
In many towns in Australia the level of greed encouraged by Airbnb means essential workers can no longer afford a home near their place of employment. It wrecks communities.
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
There are over 17,000 whole-home, <30 day, full-time Airbnbs in the area. 1,800 in City of LA.

A huge percentage are illegal under LA's Home Sharing Ordinance (HSO) and ordinances in other greater LA cities.
insideairbnb.com/los-angeles/
Map showing 17,000 short-term rentals (Airbnb) in the LA area.
January 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
Heating is not an "amenity". It is required by law.

San Diego corporate Airbnb owned & operated by Andrew Busch Jr. & John Mepham. (Busch & Mepham LLC).
airbnb.com/rooms/1217480727804788140
Bad review for an Airbnb by The Coastal Project (https://thecoastalproject.com/), where the guest says there was no heat, and the host responds that "heating was not listed as an amenity". Airbnb listing by The Coastal Project in San Diego
January 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
Don't give in to the housing bros.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Dec 6
As New York City hotel rooms reach record nightly rates, city lawmakers are proposing a bill that would walk back some restrictions on hosts of Airbnb properties and other short-term rentals
New York Made Airbnbs Harder to Find. Now It’s Reconsidering.
A bill introduced to the City Council could ease the strict regulations on short-term rentals.
www.wsj.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by NotoriousAirbnb
spokanerising.com
IMO, if we’re going to allow ADUs more liberally in rural areas, we need to include stricter regulations on using them for short-term rentals.

ADUs on Airbnb don’t do anything for rural housing affordability.
January 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
And that's the problem with Airbnb.

It leads to extraction of wealth from housing, not *living* in housing.
Airbnbs take over Mission Beach, San Diego, where they make up 30% of housing.
January 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
It's not a housing shortage.

Sedona, AZ Mayor Scott Jablow: "The prices are so astronomically high and artificially inflated because owners of short-term rentals"

azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/01/23/sedona-housing-shortage-emergency/77893064007/
Sedona declares housing shortage emergency, urges regulation of short-term rentals
A resolution in December 2024 declared a “housing shortage emergency" in Sedona, a tipping point in the city's struggle to address affordable housing.
www.azcentral.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
notoriousairbnb.bsky.social
New Oklahoma City short-term rental rules in 2025:

* 10 nights / month cap
* 1 parking space every 4 guests
* Unhosted, non-primary Airbnbs require special permit from the Board of Adjustment
* Unhosted rental cap at 10% per block

yahoo.com/news/okc-council-announces-home-sharing-183702497.html
OKC Council announces new home-sharing rules
The Oklahoma City Council approved a new set of rules for home-sharing and short-term rental services on Tuesday.
www.yahoo.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM