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It was great for a while. Then people started finding their ‘host’ was a lettings agency, and communities weren’t keen on guests
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/airbnb-wild-disruptive-cheap-lettings-agency
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh
"Holiday Flats Edinburgh's Ruin"
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Posted 2 months ago #
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So given we *finally* have the tools to address STLs through the planning system, and today’s application was the first case to come to committee since NPF4 was approved, why did the majority of committee not use the tools we have to refuse?
You’d need to ask them. 6/n
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https://mobile.twitter.com/cllrchasbooth/status/1636078686091767808
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Valencia will introduce one by the beginning of next year. Bologna charges €4 a night, about average for an Italian city, and French resorts have been able to impose a taxe de séjour since 1910. But local authorities in Britain have consistently wavered when it comes to imposing a tourist tax similar to those commonplace in the rest of Europe. In recent years Oxford, Bath and Hull reportedly contemplated a levy but decided against it.
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I've never understood why politicians are so squeamish about imposing a minor tax on people who:
1. cannot vote for them.
2. probably won't even notice.No-one who visits a city as expensive as Edinburgh will be put off by paying an extra couple of quid a day.
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Readers with a long memory may recall that Mr McCusker was the brains behind the 20mph protest after his “endless research” on the adverse effects of 20mph limits.
Posted 1 month ago # -
So it is!
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/protest-march-against-20mph-limits-plan-1513724
(The 3 taxis and a dog one.)
“Of course it might not be apathy, it might genuine,y be that not that many people actually do support the cause, there must be 'some' reason they got 39 people and PoP got 4,000....”
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14385&page=3#post-181494
Maybe he can now afford to move somewhere with no speed limits…
Posted 1 month ago # -
Ohhh - high flying business deals!
Which seems odd, as "Letting Cloud" is a micro-business with no assets, which shares its registered office at 5 South Charlotte Street with 2,409 other companies. Must be a squeeze in there, although I suppose you could hold meetings in KFC.
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Seems Mr McCusker is a bit of a fantasist:
https://www.uktech.news/proptech/letting-cloud-fake-airbnb-acquisition-20230420
Last week Grant MacCusker, CEO of Letting Cloud, claimed the Edinburgh-based company he founded in 2019 had been acquired for an undisclosed sum by US short-term rental platform Airbnb.
That claim was robustly denied by Airbnb. UKTN has since uncovered a series of false or misleading claims from MacCusker that led to numerous media outlets publishing the fake acquisition, along with evidence that he has been dishonest about previous business dealings.
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Odd how I managed to find something fishy about this (see above) after a lightning quick check on the Companies House website, but it seems to have fooled various esteemed organs of the Scottish press.
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@chdot/Stickman/Morningsider :) thank you, you have brought joy to my day
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It seems this "sale" was an even smaller event than his one taxi plus a dog protest.
What betting is there that his "awards" were self nominated and judged solely on the nomination.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Re Demo
Looked at the video, think the 39 is the number of people walking.
So another 10 or so in the taxis and disco lorry!
Worth reposting this -
https://wisob.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/in-which-i-come-over-all-daily-mash/
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More grifting:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/businessman-who-claimed-bogus-airbnb-29979123
"A business which claimed to have raised a whopping £466,000 via a dodgy crowdfunder says all investors have been paid back.
Grant MacCusker and his son Jamie Stewart have been threatened with legal action after a fundraiser on the Crowdcube website for their Student Rents firm was alleged to have made false claims."
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Yeah he’s well known to CCE!
Hard to know if he should talk to the Police or NHS…
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
I love it. Short-term let owners:
1. "How dare the Council interfere in the free market! They will kill the sacred festival!"
2. "The free market is making me charge eight grand a week for my horrible flat! These prices will kill the festival!"Posted 2 weeks ago #
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