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illy-chan t1_jeeej3b wrote

> “I live here, you know, and I’m not a business,” Romero said. “I don’t want all my personal information out there for Licenses and Inspections to be able to look at.”

... I don't even know where to start.

  1. you're accepting money from strangers, it's a business transaction. 2) the city government already has most of your important personal data. 3) why are you worried about L&I knowing about where you live but not randos from the internet?
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poulin t1_jeeki5t wrote

>“I live here, you know, and I’m not a business,” Romero said.
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>“It’s been a nightmare trying to get the zoning permit,” Romero said. “They shut down my business, and that’s what I’ve lived off of. I mean, it’s rough. It’s really rough.”

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illy-chan t1_jeekz58 wrote

Man, I forgot that line.

Idk, maybe she's trying to say she's not some bank buying up everything to rent out? Which, to be fair, fuck all those guys. But also, lady, no.

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BurnedWitch88 t1_jefo8sl wrote

She's not a big business, but as a fellow small biz owner, if a service you provide is the source of literally all your income it's def. a business. And yes, businesses have to follow some rules. Esp. businesses that can involve the health and safety of your customers.

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ITcurmudgeon t1_jegg9je wrote

She owns a triplex, lives in one and rents the other two out as a short term Airbnb rental.

Renting out your home when you're out on vacation or travelling for work? Not a business. Renting out something you own that you bought strictly to rent out and make money off of? Sure as shit sounds like a business to me.

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MacMac105 t1_jego2l7 wrote

She may not be buying up all property to rent out, but AirBnB is, and she works for them.

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nalgene_wilder t1_jeen306 wrote

Playing the absolute smallest violin for this hardworking business tycoon

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erdtirdmans t1_jeg6jpk wrote

> “It’s been a nightmare trying to get the zoning permit,” Romero said

Well, now I'm actually sympathetic. L&I has long since been understaffed and we probably need to eliminate a lot of licensing requirements or they'll never keep up

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Little_Noodles t1_jeeinby wrote

You forgot the part where she’s fine handing that information out to private companies as well ….

But that’s gotta be some kind of thin justification for “I don’t want to have to do the same stuff everyone else running a business has to do”, which makes more sense, but is an even less defensible argument.

For anyone that isn’t aware - If you own property, it’s a bit too late to claim to want to be off the grid. Unless you really nest that shit in a complicated network of shell companies and whatnot, it’s all in the public record and easily discoverable to anyone with the right websites and a little bit of patience. She’s not going to be any more or less findable than she already is.

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illy-chan t1_jeej3uy wrote

I can only think she's in some sort of denial.

Especially with tax season going on, she's really going to act like government forms are some sort of undue hardship?

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BurnedWitch88 t1_jefojqu wrote

I think tax avoidance may actually be a big part of this. Not sure how AirBnB reports payments to owners, but if she doesn't have a license to rent, there's a good chance she also doesn't have a biz license and doesn't report at least some of that income.

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bibbitybobbityfuck t1_jeekvj8 wrote

She probably lives in one of those crap built, expensive, ugly East Kensington complexes with gates too.

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