The legal mess is served because following the thesis of the right to exploit the apartment on Airbnb or Booking now the loopholes become complicated. It is completely legal. Owners of Las Palmas who have not actually bought but inherited apartments in the south of the islands from when the Seventies boom have begun this summer to exploit a new product that is getting on the nerves of the tourism industry and the community members themselves: rentals of your pool use rights. It leaves bonuses of 10.000 euros in certain areas, that is, it is more profitable than renting the property. If someone who rents an apartment in the south of Gran Canaria via Airbnb observes that there are people from outside the complex using the pool, they can only think of one thing: it is tourist karma that breaks the unit of exploitation and increases anarchy.
This is leading people in Las Palmas to rent things separately: one asset is the apartment and another is the pool. The holders of exploitation rights for apartments in the south of the island are placing this product and generating the first conflicts when they add garden space for a barbecue. Once the pool rental has ended, payment is released directly to the bank account of the owner of the right of use within 3 business days via Stripe. Operators equivalent to the Airbnb of swimming pools charge a 17% fee on reservations made through the platform.
There are different platforms that are responsible for connecting tenants and landlords, just as happens with vacation rentals, but the dynamic is basically the same in all cases: the owner of a pool rents it to other users, for hours or entire days. , in exchange for an agreed price. Sometimes extra services are added to the pool, such as a barbecue, pergola, lounge or garden. A person who owns the rights to use a swimming pool rents it to another person who is looking for that service for a barbecue with friends and family, a baby shower, or filming racy videos for adult or leisure platforms. Some can be found available from 20 euros per hour, or even 4 or 5, and others, with a premium approach, for which hundreds of euros are requested. The offers are diverse. And it is not strange that they are completed with extras, such as barbecues, ovens, gardens... or even rooms with a bar and refrigeration or in which to hold celebrations.
