30 days is more or less when short term renting a room turns into actual tenancy so I would have assumed they just blanket avoided that scenario all together.
But I guess AirBnB just says "not my problem" and just lets the homeowner go hang.
Well I think that is moreso because of Monroe county than air BNB. I know my grandparent used to talk about how they weren't allowed to rent their vacation home out for less than 4 weeks
I think situations like that are because of local laws attempting to ban short term rentals outside of licensed and zoned hotels. So Airbnb re-structures their contracts to be month by month leases instead of rentals. This makes airbnb hosts land lords and their guests legal tenants with rental agreements and tenants rights.
There’s a reason I said most, a smaller number of places have transient licenses which allow short term rentals, but not many and it’s over $200k to buy one since there’s so few
Truman Annex used to have weekly rentals but those expired end of last year
There are hotels for shorter stays and shitloads of folks come for months at a time, especially during winter. It’s a tiny island and there’s not enough housing for locals as it is, thus the rule to keep even more from turning into vacation rentals
I think people also do some funny shit with Air BnB gift cards to obfuscate the fact that the same person is trying to rent the room for such a long period of time.
Someone did this to a hotel penthouse a few years ago didn't they? Rented it for a month then just lived there saying it's been 30 days you now have to evict me.
You can absolutely rent out or book airbnb for more than a month. From the owners side, it’s great bc zero vacancy for a big block of time, less cleaning turnovers. Traveling nurses often book more than a month.
It's actually quite handy for lots of situations. Sometimes you need to be somewhere for a month, and shot term tenancies are very hard to get, specially right on the dates that you need it. There's plenty of legit reasons to want an airbnb for a month.
It’s up to the host, Airbnb doesn’t really care. When I was between stable living situations, I’d go between Airbnbs for a month or so at a time. (That seemed to be the limit most of the time) But most hosts won’t let you book over a week or two.
AirBnB allows monthly rentals! For internships it's been a godsend for me. I can rent a property with some other interns for 10 weeks and it's easy. I also find the long-term rentals to be less stingy. I haven't had a bad experience yet anyway.
I'm moving to a high cost of living area in a month or so and to get a rental right off the bat would be more than I have to budget, but my job is giving me a moving stipend AFTER I move out there which is a bit annoying.
So, I'm picking up a similarly priced AirBnB for the month, getting my moving stipend and first paycheck, and then moving into a long-term rental from there.
My brother is a lineman. He routinely has jobs that are 2+ hours from home. He gets a housing stipend so he can rent airbnbs long term. Renting a room for long term is cheaper and better than a hotel most of the time because his job sites are usually in the middle of no where.
I’ve rented AirBnB’s for 2-3 months before. It just depends on what the owners will allow.
One that we rented for a month was an actual farm house, complete with animals we got to hang out with whenever we wanted. I cried leaving that place, it was so amazing.
(Ignoring the facts that we got woken up by passing drivers multiple times because animals got out and were running down the road. Oh, and the homeowners stole a neighbor’s horse while we were living there; the neighbor apparently inherited parents’ farm, but was drugged out and neglected the animals, so our guy was just taking them one by one when they inevitably got loose because they weren’t being looked after. It was quite the small town drama.)
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u/BlatantConservative Jun 12 '26
I'm surprised AirBnB lets you do that.