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[QUOTE=RioBob;3041735]I was surfing through Airbnb today for a future trip and stopped at an apartment I stayed earlier this year. It's in a new building on ave. Atlantica, the host has about 10 apartments in that building, other hosts have about 10 each also. When I stayed in that apartment I had girls come in everyday and night no problem they just had to register at the front desk. Today I read the house rules on all my hosts apartments, they were all updated to include: No drugs, no public intoxication, no parties and no sex workers. This is the first time I've seen them get so specific usually they just say no unregistered guests. I would suspect residents complained about the unsavory traffic through the building and mongers drunk in the common areas. I wasn't going to stay there anyway because I didn't like the location but I did check the availability of the apartment and it's not that booked anymore compared to others that allow any type of guests. I never had too much problems with the girls through the years but have heard many stories of violent loud fights in hotels late at night and this is embarrassing for the hotels and now more and more Airbnb are following suit. I always ask Airbnb hosts if I could bring unregistered guests into the apartment and they all tell me to be careful with people I don't know..[/QUOTE]Rio Bob, you're the one with longest experience of Rio in this forum. Your inputs are always valuable.
Regarding allowing guests in apartments. I would never accept not allowing guests. I have lots of friends in Rio, not only girls I f*ck, and telling them they can't visit my apartment for having some drinks or dinner would be insane. It might be that the apartment owner doesn't want mongers bringing GPS that makes a lot of noise and disturb the neighbors, that's understable. Often it also depends on the síndicos in the building. The síndico is the adminstrator a condominium, elected by the owners. That person often decides the rules of the building.
I have two friends who owned a couple of apartments in a building on Rua Barao de Ipanema. Their apartaments were always rented out to tourists amd they earned very good money. However the síndico of the building got jealous and started give out fines to the apartments owners when there were loud noices etc. It ended with my friends got tired and sold their apartments.
Sidenote: The best way to rent apartments are from people not using internet for renting out their apartments. Today I only have one contact that still don't use internet. He's a chefe dos porteiros in a large building, in a top location. He used to rent out a dozen apartments. Today he just handles a handful of apartments. The standard of the apartments are really good and the prices as well. Partly because I know him for more than 30 years. That building is located not far from ex-Help. There was a time when they didn't allow temporary renters bringing visits to the apartments, but I was an exception to the rule.
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[QUOTE=Bravo;3041762]Is that building located where the last single family home was on Atlantica?[/QUOTE]It's where Casa de Pedras was located. The old lady who used to live there diead at an age of 101 years. Her heirs sold the house and they constructed the building that Rio Bob mentioned.
Consulado the Áustria is also demolished. I think the only low rise buildings left on Avenida Atlântica are a small school and the Zona Sul supermercado in Leme.
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Bingo!
[QUOTE=RioBob;3041833]Maybe, it's 2 buildings off of Rua Santa Clara, just a couple of years old, it's too bad because it was a nice building to stay in, the apartments being brand new and everything. There are still many other apartments in Rio but it's too bad some mongers don't know how to be low key.[/QUOTE]As soon as I saw the apartments listed online, I wondered how long it would take before the Passport Bros would fuck it up for everyone!! It's like this new generation (under 35) never learned the definition of the word "Discretion".
