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The vans were allegedly being used as Airbnb rentals for at least two years
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This is great. I mean the vans have more space than some of the actual NYC rooms, but still. What caught my eye
“Their registrations and New Jersey plates were long expired, with some going back as far as 2000, sources told the Post.”
NYPD spent obscene sums of money on plate scanners, almost every cruiser on the street in Manhattan has them, and yet basically unregistered cars can exist for 21 years? The security theater in NYC is just a money laundering joke.
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This whole thing is perplexing to me.
The people who offered it, the people who paid for them & slept in it and the crazy time it took them to catch them.
Couldn’t they have just booked the van as undercover agents & caught them in a week at max?
I would guess that they suspected drug / prostitution to go with it, not just rental scam.
That would be something else lol
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Could also be homeless housing, that gets tricky for the cops.
I know, do we tow the van first and then throw them out on their ass, or do we throw them out on their ass first and then tow the van? Very tricky. Hey sarge, which way is less paperwork?
I can see that but can’t take 2 years though, can it?
Let me put it this way.
- Government gives money to programs who help the homeless
- Programs Figure out that the longer the people are ‘homeless’ the more money they make.
- They sue the GOVERNMENT who fed them , to keep homeless as homeless.
It’s like Amtrak, no interest in solving the problems but lots of interest in making money.
Oh one more thing.
Did you know RV’s are shielded from Lemon laws? Aka if you buy a clunker you are stuck with a clunker?
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They are shielded from some states’ lemon laws, but they are not shielded from the federal Magnuson-Moss warranty act. Just means one needs to file any litigation differently.
& look what just popped up in my feed
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Folks are renting out Gladiators and Wranglers in Hawaii with a tent for $200+ a night on AirBnB. Adventure and camping in all the amazing parks out there. There is a real STR combo Jeep hack.
They even have a new Snazzberry!!!
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They are shielded from all states lemon laws AFAIK.
I never said they avoid warranty claims, but there is nothing that says they must get it right on the 1st fix or the 100th fix.
Magmussen-Moss doesn’t have as structured guidelines as far as number of attempts as most state lemon laws, but does state that it must be fixed within a reasonable amount of time, which often uses state lemon laws as the guidelines for defining what that means. Either way, you’re not going to be stuck with an RV with 10+ attempts to fix the same thing.
I certainly can’t speak to all, but Florida, for example, does apply lemon law protections to some RVs (basically anything with a motor gets coverage, living spaces are not covered).
There’s a youtube video about a Lemon Law Lawyer who points this out about RVs
Example he gives is , burning coming from rear left wheel. This is due to bearings having not enough grease packed from the manufacturer and it burns out after XXX miles. The dealer changes it every month because of usage, but it comes back. That would be a Lemon in a normal car, but since the issue (Rear wheel on Fire) is cured with each repair, it was warranted properly. It just keeps coming back.