just HOW MANY houses on the main line are air bnb???

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I went down a rabbit hole this morning and hopefully they’re all legal? I have no idea, do you?

It is municipality to municipality and I just randomly decided I’d go nose dive into the Main Line and I have to ask how many houses on the Main Line are Air BnB now?

From mansions to rooms for rent to small little older houses that don’t interest developers, but might interest a regular family if they could afford to live in the neighborhood, I just have to ask how many houses are Air BnB?

I didn’t go diving into Chester County per se. I really kept it to the Main Line because I was more curious there. And the reason I’m curious is it is so hard for people to find affordable rentals let alone affordable houses to buy and I think this is part of the problem.

Anyway, it make sure understand how people can afford to live on the Main Line now, right? They can just Air BnB it, right? Are these people paying taxes to the municipalities that their short term rentals, whether it be a Air BnB or VRBO are in?  in places where this is allowed in their code, it’s kind of like a missed revenue stream, isn’t it? 

Sign me gobsmacked. I did not know this was such a cottage industry on the Main Line.

Happy Friday!

4 thoughts on “just HOW MANY houses on the main line are air bnb???”

  1. Please check out todays daily local, thursday, Oct 4th. Please look under public notices for the Downingtown Borough. FEMAand PEMA are asking for bids, to KNOCK DOWN 8 properties on Brandywine Ave. The very old duplex houses. 8!!!!! Please let your readers know about this.. I believe many are rented? Owned? Very sad… Destroying history again.

    • No. FEMA doing that means they flood and badly that’s not destroying history that’s saving people a lot of aggravation.

  2. Great research and topic, CCR! I’ve recently read two articles – in the NeeYork Times and Washington Post – about tourist hot spots in Europe limiting airbnbs because they’re driving up longer-term rental rates, causing congestion and detracting from a sense of community.

    • Thank you. I fell down this rabbit hole accidentally- I was nosing around after I wrote the other post which was down in Chadds Ford and I just started digging around. I started with my old neighborhood in Haverford and it continued from there- it’s kind of crazy.

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