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AirBnB is the worst thing to happen to the housing market and towns need to outright ban it or allow specific areas for short term housing. Generally short term
by codeTired 3y ago
AirBnB is the worst thing to happen to the housing market and towns need to outright ban it or allow specific areas for short term housing. Generally short term housing causes headache for the neighbors.
People who often do short stays don’t give a crap about noise, neighbors, or anything else.
Plus many got into airbnb to get rich. Have 0 business sense, 0 landlord experience and often don’t maintain the property.
Plus, every time I stayed at Airbnb I felt scammed. The pictures always lied. Some of the things were not as advertised. And before leaving I had a todo list. Absolutely pathetic way to spend vacations.
- ericfrazier 3y agoYou are not the norm and loud belligerent Airbnb guests is not the norm
- addisonl 3y agoStrawman: no one said loud guests are the norm.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoYup, all it takes is 1 out of 10 guests throwing beer cans over the fence to piss off the neighbors for good. It doesn't have to be the norm to suck ass.
- codeTired 3y agoFrom what I am reading here my experience is the norm these days.
- Remnant44 3y agoThere's a very strong selection bias for people who will talk about their experiences.. much like product review, you only hear about the bad ones
- jareklupinski 3y agojust chiming in to say that in the early days, i got an AirBnB in Tokyo, paid a reasonable sum and had a wonderful time, but have been staying in hotels since the debacles have started popping up the sad thing is that from the very beginning, unlike many other startup businesses, they actually had a great value-prop and worked incredibly well as a product
- bombcar 3y agoEarly AirBnb was much closer to “extra room to crash in” than “house purchased to be rented out peicemeal WeWork style”.
- flashgordon 3y agoI had one bad experience in Paris 15 years ago (ish) and that was it. No more Airbnb (unless I am travelling with other families and need kitchens etc - then the todolist is something i just put up with). Looks like ABNB is just getting worse over the years. But oh boy. Staying at a hotel - I know what I am getting. Yes it sucks for reasons - but they are all known reasons (eg small rooms, "boring" etc). Now (not a plug or anything) last three times I was with Hilton (nothing fancy) and I gotta say I got lucky all 3 times. Even other hotels - boring but dependable. No todo lists - just leave!