{"id":9100,"date":"2018-05-11T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=0f20d8609deb7cceac40266a870e4f33"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:04:30","slug":"new-york-city-loft-dweller-fined-185k-for-tourist-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/new-york-city-loft-dweller-fined-185k-for-tourist-rentals\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City loft-dweller fined $185K for tourist rentals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; A New York City artist is facing eviction and a $185,000 fine after renting out her rent-regulated loft to tourists on Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post reports a judge ruled this week that a landlord could evict Eileen Hickey.<\/p>\n<p>Landlord Robert Moskowitz says Hickey made $4,500 a month by renting her Manhattan loft to visitors at triple what she pays. Moskowitz says Hickey violated state laws against short-term renting and profiting off rent-stabilized apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Hickey says the Airbnb rentals spanned 85 nights over 10 months. She says she needed money for her then-husband medical bills and believed the rentals were legal.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old owns a condo elsewhere in Manhattan but says she uses it as an office.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Airbnb hasn&#8217;t immediately commented. It tells users to consult local laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &mdash; A New York City artist is facing eviction and a $185,000 fine after renting out her rent-regulated loft to tourists on Airbnb. The New York Post reports a judge ruled this week that a landlord could evict Eileen Hickey. Landlord Robert Moskowitz says Hickey made $4,500 a month by renting her Manhattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}