Municipality of A’dam explains recordboete on to Airbnb – Telegraaf.nl

That confirms a spokesman for alderman Laurens Ivens (Housing). According to the municipality rented a woningeigenaar eleven apartments in the Kerkstraat. There would be an illegal hotel. The sleutelbedrijf Iamb&b helps the owner with the rent by the tenants, screening, and, for example, the keys to the tenants. Both the pandeigenaar as Iamb&b a fine of almost one and a half tons.

a Maximum of 60 days

The capital management last year, new rules were introduced for rental of housing through Airbnb. So may a property a maximum of sixty days per year are rented. In the building are also allowed to have up to four tenants reside. If houses longer to be rented out, there may have been illegal rentals. Each apartment has the municipality a fine of 13,500 euros was imposed because of woningonttrekking.

‘Uniform decorated’

“The apartments will however have a destination as home and also serve as a way to use”, says the spokesperson of the alderperson Ivens. All apartments were booked through Airbnb at one and the same sleutelbedrijf. “The apartments were uniform renovated and decorated and it all looked a bit the same with a double bed and a sofa bed or only a sofa bed and a kitchenette and bathroom. The entrance of the building and the apartments themselves were, like many real hotels, equipped with an electronic lock with a keycard to be opened."

The capital management last year, new rules were introduced for rental of housing through Airbnb. So may a property a maximum of sixty days per year are rented. In the building are also allowed to have up to four tenants reside. If houses longer to be rented out, there may be illegal hiring. Each apartment has the municipality a fine of 13,500 euros imposed. In addition, the owner and the sleutelbedrijf summoned to the tourist rental to cease.

‘very surprised’

“The fine surprised us very much”, says owner Dirk Minnebo of Iamb&b, that the fine is going to challenge it. “We help the owner with the rental of the property and are convinced that that is not illegal. It seems more like a political penalty, because now the owner has a newspaper headline that there is a megaboete is imposed." According Minnebo, it seems that the alderman are homework not well done. “There is no question of woningonttrekking, because the house is not of us. The municipality wants to set an example and we are the largest party that helps with the

letting of dwellings. It had the alderman graced to be with us in conversation."

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