I'm a single mom, I'll rewrite our housing laws. Someone, let me have a stab at it.

I just got kicked out of a building because new owners bought it and started renovations. They had been using the apartment next to mine as a full time Air B&B. Rumor around the building was that they wanted to turn the whole thing into Air B&B. I don't know how true that was, but they certainly weren't interested in having tenants considering how fast they kicked everyone out after they bought the place.

Anonymous, you're a prick. If you absolutely have to act, then go to a city council meeting and share your two cents. You can't randomly screw people out of the place they live. That is wrong.

Portland: Where the majority of our hotels are piss poor and used to house transients and our housing is appealing and used to temporarily impress out of towners.

Charlie - It's not random. Anon targeted people who were in violation of their lease agreements. I assume the illegal rentals created at least a little bit of nuisance in order to be noticed in the first place, and if that's the case, Anon is pretty justified. Case in point, Boy and I have neighbors who bought a bunch of illegal fireworks. Had they chosen to set them off somewhere besides the street directly in front of our house, causing our windows to shake and keeping us awake until midnight for days on end, it wouldn't really be any of our business. But since they didn't show that little bit of courtesy they got the cops called. I figure it's the same situation here. If you're going to do something not terribly legal, be sure to not annoy your neighbors with it.

CharlieDontSurf, big business has been randomly screwing people out of the places they live since the dawn of this nation. I'm all for attending a city council meeting... good point. In fact, maybe next time you attend one, you'll see me and Allusion there, helping rewrite housing laws.

Lol @ all of justifying being a rat. Anonymous is a sad, pathetic, excuse for a human. Mind your own fucking business and let people do the same.

The renters on our street are doing this and it makes a bad parking situation way worse.

Anon, you should ditch your cell phone and iPod. Get yourself a land line and a cassette player to make sure that those folks who used to manufacture them stay in business. You seem to not like the ways of the future, it's just different people making money. Annoying your neighbors is never a good thing, but that's not what's happening the majority of the time. Air Bnb is a good thing that is allowing regular folks to make some extra cash and, in my experience, allow some cool folks to come visit our fair city, hang out in neighborhoods and meet us nice locals. You are clearly not one of the nice locals. Nice of you to try to get some people kicked out of their homes when it's real hard out there to find housing. Bitter much?

Sorry, not everyone has a trust fund. Also, taddling don't pay the bills. I don't get why you're so concerned about it. Mind your own business.
P.S. What is the answer to making ends meet?

Aww typical passive aggressive Portlandians. Instead of comfronting the problem head on, they'd rather be be a snake about it, then brag anonymously online about it. Business as usual.

Dude, you suck! You're the stereotypical, passive-aggressive Portlander that solves their problems like a seven-year-old. Who just tells on people like that? I hope you spill your boiling cup of fair-trade coffee on your crotch while driving your fixed-gear into the Willamette River, you pussy.

Oh, yeah. let's make sure big corporate hotels stay in business paying minimum wage to their workers. That sounds fair. AirBnB owners pay housekeepers to clean their places, too, you know. As for parking, there are not going to be anymore cars in a one night stay than for a permanent resident, in fact perhaps less because they might have flown in and definitely don't have two cars for the two people in the apartment. Anything to kick Marriott and Hilton in the ass, I say.

Airbnb is "dragging down the city"? Oh please. They're in 190 countries, so according to you they must be dragging the entire planet down by fulfilling a need for short-term accommodations.

Laura Rakestraw wrote: "I assume the illegal rentals created at least a little bit of nuisance in order to be noticed in the first place" No, Anon didn't choose to report on the basis of any nuisance but instead went to the Airbnb site to locate rentals that would likely be in violation of their rental agreements. I don't see how Airbnb subletters are any more likely to cause a nuisance than renters. Airbnb kicks out members who use the service for illicit dealings. That's more than can be said for a lot of landlords.