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Pawnbrokers in Amsterdam to abuse houses rental sites like Airbnb. They rent apartments in the city throughout the year to tourists and thereby circumvent the rules for hire and fire safety. In fact, they run illegal hotels, the Volkskrant writes.
This is shown by parts of the administration of real estate company Living Capital, which owns the newspaper. This mediator certainly hires 803 beds spread over 86 apartments in the capital. The municipality has several warnings and fines handed out to the company and closed at least three properties because there was a fire hazard, illegal hotel.
Gert Jan Bakker Reporting Unwanted Behavior Rental think now ‘a few thousand’ Amsterdam apartments structurally as hotel offered via vacation rental sites. ,, You used to have a few small buildings in the city throughout the year tourists were now done on a large scale. The municipality can not keep up, ” said Baker.
Appropriate action
Airbnb and Booking.com the sites on which a large part of the apartments of Living Capital is offered, both say fend illegal hotels. ,, We do not monitor each case whether a hotel complies with all the rules, ” said spokesman Andre Manning of Booking.com. ,, That is ultimately the responsibility of the person offering the hotel with us ”
Even Heggernes Airbnb:. ,, If we are informed about an illegal hotel that is offered on our website, we take appropriate measures. ”
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