Kyle Piers earned rave reviews as a host on the vacation rental website Airbnb.Contracts.
He has scouted gym memberships for guests, provided detailed instructions for using public transit, and even tracked down a local supplier of beet juice for a Netherlands couple staying at his Back Bay condominium during the Boston Marathon.
“Fantastic,” “awesome,” and “welcoming” are some of the words of praise guests posted on Piers’s Airbnb page.
But neighbors at his 31-unit condo complex on Massachusetts Avenue were less than thrilled. Upset at the traffic trooping into the building near Symphony Hall, the condo association earlier this year slapped Piers with a $9,700 fine for violating the building’s rules against short-term rentals by running a hotel out of his home.
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Short-term rentals irk condo groups. Fearing a flood of strangers, condo boards crack down on vacation rentals
The Boston Globe reports:
