• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Sunday, July 20, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Current Events

Man Fined $30,000 For Renting Out His Apartment

by Off The Grid News Staff
in Current Events
Print Print
Renting apartments and beds illegal San Francisco

Image source: YoChicago.com

Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article
Renting apartments and beds illegal San Francisco
Image source: YoChicago.com

Letting somebody sleep on your couch can get you evicted from your apartment in San Francisco.

Residents of the city by the bay who can barely afford average rents of $3,350 a month are facing fines and eviction for using the website airbnb.com to rent their couches or spare rooms to tourists.

“Using an apartment for short-term rentals is a crime in San Francisco,” attorney Edward Singer told The San Francisco Chronicle.

Singer arranged the eviction of Jeffrey Katz, a special education teacher who used Airbnb.com to help cover his rent. “It’s obviously not the same moral culpability as running a house of prostitution or manufacturing methamphetamines, but any illegal use is grounds for eviction.”

Katz found an eviction notice on his apartment door because he did not have a conditional use permit which would allow him to rent out his apartment. He was one of a number of San Francisco residents who discovered that it is illegal for most of the city’s residents to take in short-term guests. The Chronicle reported that even people who take in guests for free can be prosecuted under the law.

Middle Class Getting Evicted

“If the eviction goes through, I will have to move out of the city,” Katz said. He is one of many residents who can only afford to live in San Francisco because he was able to rent out his couch on Airbnb.com. “That would break my heart.”

The True Christian Heritage and Christian Ideals That Are Woven Into The Very Fabric Of The Constitution…

San Francisco now has the highest rents in the nation and many working class and middle class residents are being pushed out of the city. CNN Money reported that landlords in the city are regularly evicting tenants so they can rent apartments to technology workers for more money.

The highest rents in the city are those near bus routes to San Jose, where technology giants like Google and Apple are headquartered. Many rentals are now being converted into high priced condos.

Websites Didn’t Warn Users of Possible Evictions

“You are illegally using the premises as a tourist or transient unit,” the notice on Katz’s door said. Katz didn’t realize that he was violating the law until he got the eviction notice. Katz discovered that airbnb.com, which was profiting from his rental, wasn’t willing to help him.

“It’s not like these people are scofflaws,” Katz’s attorney, Joe Tobener, said. “They thought it was OK to rent his place on Airbnb because the company didn’t tell them otherwise. Airbnb should be defending these tenants, or they should disclose to every person who rents in San Francisco that (short-term rentals are illegal) and tenants are being evicted.”

A San Francisco resident can be evicted for hosting guests once, the Institute for Justice reported. Two other San Francisco residents, Lisa Weitekamp and Chad Selph, received an eviction notice for hosting a guest only once.

Fined $30,000 for Renting Out Apartment

San Francisco is not the only city where people are facing fines and being evicted for renting out rooms through Airbnb. New York City resident Nigel Warren was fined $30,000 for renting out his apartment for $100 a night.

“I rented out my place for a few days and I made $300,” Warren told National Public Radio. “And that was money that I was basically just using to help cover the rent while I was away. I thought, great, this will chip in.”

Warren’s fine has since been reduced to $2,400, but it still hurts the 30-year-old web designer. The Institute for Justice reported that there are similar fines in place in New Orleans.

Such short term rentals are a growing business; the Institute for Justice reported that Airbnb.com posted 30,000 rentals in New York City alone. The main opposition to such rentals comes from hotel owners.

Should people be able to rent out their apartments and homes in cities? Let us know in the comments section below.

Sign up for Off The Grid News’ weekly email and stay informed about the issues important to you

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

Engineered Storms and Global Control: RFK Jr.’s Chemtrail Task Force Unmasks the Weather War

Engineered Storms and Global Control: RFK Jr.’s Chemtrail Task Force Unmasks the Weather War

by Bill Heid

The Floods in Texas Were No Accident The devastating floods that struck Texas were not the result of random weather...

Vanishing Epstein Evidence… Data Brokers… And the Rise of Citizen Investigators

Vanishing Epstein Evidence… Data Brokers… And the Rise of Citizen Investigators

by Bill Heid

The Power of Cell Phone Data in the Age of Secrecy In a world where billion-dollar federal agencies seem to...

Behind the Curtain: How Diddy’s Trial Exposed the Elite’s System of Protection and Control

Behind the Curtain: How Diddy’s Trial Exposed the Elite’s System of Protection and Control

by Bill Heid

Verdict Shocked No One Inside When Sean "Diddy" Combs walked free from the most serious charges in a high-profile federal...

Next Post
mers virus

Outbreak? US Officials Struggle To Stop Spread Of Deadly MERS Virus

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

The George Washington You Never Knew with Peter Lillback – Episode 062

The George Washington You Never Knew with Peter Lillback – Episode 062

Survivorman OTG Pt3

gold coin on wooden table

You Need Gold and Guns…Now!

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

Privacy Policy   Terms & Conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.