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AirBnB will need to evolve their service to deal with this. They are going to face this problem many times more I'm sure.

The only way I can see around it would be working with individual cities and adapting the service within those cities so that it works better for everyone.

There are many negative externalities caused by AirBnB (personally I wouldn't want my neighbours changing weekly and having access to my building and mailbox) but there are also positive ones (filling vacant properties, boosting the local economy).

When it comes to big cities like New York, Paris, London etc. AirBnb should spend the money to carry out analysis of how the service could work best for everyone and work with local authorities.



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