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Mayor Adams Announces Lawsuit Against Illegal Short-Term Rental Operation
MAYOR ADAMS ANNOUNCES OFFICE OF SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT LAWSUIT AGAINST ILLEGAL SHORT-TERM RENTAL OPERATION
Suit Alleges That Licensed Real Estate Broker Arron Latimer Used Dozens of Listings and Fake Host Accounts to Generate $2 Million in Payouts From Airbnb
First Suit Filed Against Operation Identified Using New York City’s 2021 Booking Service Data Reporting Law
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) Executive Director Christian J. Klossner today announced a new lawsuit to shut down an illegal short-term rental operation at a building located in Turtle Bay. According to the lawsuit, defendant Arron Latimer — a licensed real estate broker — as well as building owner Apex Management and managing member Esther Yip used a number of LLCs they control to run a complex and illegal short-term rental operation at 344 East 51st Street utilizing popular online lodging websites, like Airbnb. The suit represents the city’s first lawsuit against a short-term rental operation identified using data obtained through the city’s law — Local Law 146 of 2018, amended by LL 64 of 2020 — requiring online short-term rental platforms to regularly report data on bookings to the city.
“Safe, stable, and affordable housing is fundamental to a prosperous city, so we will not allow bad actors to deplete our housing stock and undermine our hospitality sector,” said Mayor Adams. “For years, Arron Latimer and the other defendants used fake host profiles on popular sites like Airbnb to deceive and lure unsuspecting guests into paying for substandard lodging at illegal rental listings. Not only did they unlawfully pocket millions, but they endangered guests and deprived New Yorkers of an entire building’s worth of long-term housing. Today, we are sending a clear message that this kind of lawlessness will not be tolerated in our city. We are not going to stand by while shady brokers use illegal listings and fake host accounts to skirt the law and defraud consumers.”
“This suit shows the city’s determination to preserve every unit of housing we have, and helps meet our commitment to ensure that all our neighbors have a safe, stable, affordable place to call home,” said New York City Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz.
“This operator used fake names, false addresses, and a smokescreen of LLCs to attempt to hide this illegal operation, but will now be held accountable.” said Christian Klossner, executive director, Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement. “This lawsuit underscores the necessity of robust reporting requirements for booking platforms, and why the city needs the short-term rental registration program that will take effect in 2023.”
The suit alleges that the three defendants continued to run their unlawful operation despite multiple enforcement efforts from the city, which issued violations for the illegal short-term rentals and for the building’s numerous hazardous conditions, including an inadequate fire alarm system, an inadequate fire sprinkler system, and a failure to provide required means of egress.
Between January of 2018 and March of 2022, Airbnb records show that the platform disbursed $2 million in payments to Latimer for short-term rentals at six buildings throughout the city, including at least $987,729 from the building targeted in the lawsuit on East 51st Street. During this timeframe, Latimer used more than 26 distinct host accounts, operated more than 78 listings, conducted more than 2,200 transactions, and deceived more than 6,500 guests.
The city’s suit further asserts Latimer intentionally misled and endangered consumers, in potential violation of the city’s consumer protection law. Additionally, guest reviews described the location as “astonishingly dirty,” with complaints of mold, soiled linens, and blood stains, as well as robotic or automated communication with their host. Other guests advised that future visitors should “be aware that the address or listing is different than the actual location.”
New York City’s booking service data reporting law requires online short-term rental platforms to periodically provide OSE with information about transactions for certain listings. These reports include the physical address of the short-term rental (as reported to the booking service by the host), the URL of the short-term rental listing, details pertaining to the scope of the short-term rental transaction, and information relating to the identity of the host, including contact information and associated bank accounts to which payouts were made.
New York City’s short-term rental registration law — which goes into effect in January 2023 — will require rental hosts in New York City to register with the city and will prevent platforms, like Airbnb, from processing transactions unless the registration information matches a city database.
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