Written by Maitland McDonagh on January 17, 2013
The best step in a condo / co-op board can take to keep your building from becoming an illegal hotel — with absentee owners renting their apartments week-to-week or month-to-month via Airbnb and other short-term accommodation websites — is prevention, a topic Habitat covered earlier this month. But what do you do once you have a parade of non-vetted strangers living next to you and sharing hallways and elevators with your spouses and kids? You're not helpless. There are steps you can take.