However, legislating AirBNB out of business is a serious issue.Major tourist cities tend to be dominated by the political left.

Just a lurker on this thread (and much of the site), but I wanted to point out that it's been proven time and time again that breed-specific legislation (BSL) doesn't decrease dog bites in municipalities and cities that implement them. 

Municipalities should be legislating to get them out of residential communities but in turn should define areas where they will be allowed.STRs is a new approach to hotel accommodations that may or may not survive but for those effected they can simply turn them into long term rentals if they wish to stay in business.

@Tony Castronovo @Vijaianand Thirunageswaram @Michael EalyIn case you weren't aware, legislation will be passed in Texas later this year that is aimed at preventing this type of deals.

@Sanjeev AdvaniHi Sanjeev,I’ve been looking into this question recently with the new AB 1482 legislation that was just signed into law.

Not to mention all the uncertainty of legislation on that market type.

I decided we needed to fix this problem so I contacted my local legislator to propose a bill to change Idaho law.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s2891https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s2892

The vote will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at The Legislative Services Building (LSB), 200 E. 14th Avenue, directly south of the Capitol.  

There is so much discussion and legislation going on in our country about the need to implement rent control through major metros, and even state wide, in addition to how our government needs strip away landlord rights such as basic screening and ability to evict tenants out of their own personal property.