Couldn't the same thing happen though with people putting up out of town relatives or friends? The people coming through are temporary but your neighbours that are putting them up are permanent and should be in a position to set the rules.
I'd assume this has a lot more to do with hotels being undercut.
There are at least two pretty different kinds of rentals that go on on AirBnB, though: 1) people who live in the apartment sometimes taking in visitors for a few days; and 2) people who don't live in the apartment, renting out an apartment on a regular basis.
Sometimes those in #2 get consolidated so many such units are operated by one person, making more or less a quasi-hotel. And having hotel units next door to you is somewhat different than having an apartment with a long-term tenant next door to you, which is presumably what you signed up expecting.
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Couldn't the same thing happen though with people putting up out of town relatives or friends? The people coming through are temporary but your neighbours that are putting them up are permanent and should be in a position to set the rules.
I'd assume this has a lot more to do with hotels being undercut.
There are at least two pretty different kinds of rentals that go on on AirBnB, though: 1) people who live in the apartment sometimes taking in visitors for a few days; and 2) people who don't live in the apartment, renting out an apartment on a regular basis.
Sometimes those in #2 get consolidated so many such units are operated by one person, making more or less a quasi-hotel. And having hotel units next door to you is somewhat different than having an apartment with a long-term tenant next door to you, which is presumably what you signed up expecting.
I have little problem with them changing the rules on the second situation you listed but the first is the one that's problematic.