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Who's taking the trash out now dumbasses? Not me. You deal with the insane rules of your strata. Not my problem boo. (I also think AirBnB is an evil model and wouldn't use the app but....I could not resist)
they might as well spend the money to have a houskeeping service.
Strike? Against whom, yourself? You're the boss.
This must be murica, hereabouts no guest will do any cleaning.
They're technically independent contractors with some of their own capital. What makes them different than an Uber driver or a truck owner-operator is the amount of capital required to do their job is a lot higher and they generally don't need to do as much labor.
What's the problem? Hosts can still charge cleaning fees but they can't force guests to do chores.
Yeah, but they were doing both.
Now they can't have a cake and eat it too.
Exactly. If the hosts were able to both make guests clean up after themselves and charge a cleaning fee then the cleaning fee was just a money grab.
I rented an airbnb, my one and only time, where the host had an insane list of chores. For context: This was during the pandemic and it was me and my two best friends who just wanted to get out of NYC for the night to get some fresh air. I cooked at home and packed dinner, so we didn't use the kitchen. We didn't drink. We had a quiet movie night, enjoyed the trees and each others company and then went to sleep.
The next morning, I personally wiped the counters, wiped the fridge, took out the trash, stripped the beds, refluffed the couch, swept the fireplace.. the works. I literally woke up 2 hours early to get all this cleaning done. They had a cleaning fee on top of all these chores, which I felt was odd, but it was a new experience for me so I went with it. I am big on rules and respect so i sincerely cleaned to the best of my ability.
After I posted a positive review of their home, they put up a review of me within seconds claiming I trashed the place. They were vying for an additional charge for me leaving the place messy. They said their cleaning lady called to complain about how I trashed the house. I messaged asking what they were talking about, absolutely confused,, and they gave me a list of how I trashed their house.
- There were crumbs on the counter. I know I wiped it, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe i missed something.
- They said one of the blankets was a little damp. After asking the other girls, I think my friend briefly sat on the bed after she took a shower. I had stripped the bed so this was a blanket in the hamper they were complaining about that should have been going to be washed. I didn't notice anything damp when I stripped her bed, but we were trying to rationalize the complaint while we were all talking about it after.
- The back of one of the couches had a smudge on it. It was allegedly charcoal from the fireplace. I didn't see a smudge, it was just me and two girls and none of us touched the back of the couch. I don't know where this came from. You can't see the back of the couch in any of the photos I took, and I can't 100% guarantee nothing happened but none of us had any reason to touch the back of the couch and I was the only one to sweep the fireplace (which was full of ash from the previous people but it was on their 'house rules' to leave it clean and I was worried we'd be charged so I swept it)
They hosts wanted to charge me a $500 additional cleaning fee for the "trashed" house. I had after pictures of the condition i left it in and nothing came of it, so I think Airbnb said they didn't have a case, but I never used airbnb again.
It cost more than a hotel would have in the area. Such a scam.
That's a terrible experience. I've never stayed at one and never had a desire though I can see the appeal for some. When I travel I want to be taken care of. Not go through this.
"striking" would imply they were performing any work in the first place lmao
What the fuck do hotels do?!?! Fuck landlords of all types. Entitled twats. Fuck right off. Glad I never use these. Just do a fucking hotel. An actual business. Not these craigslist-ass half-assed supplementing someone else's overpriced mortgage and bad financial decisions.
Exactly. If you're going to pretend to be a hotel, then you have to act like a hotel.
Hotels, motels, boarding houses, albergues, inns, resorts, serviced apartments, and actual freaking B&B...
All of those are good for the economy to varying degrees; the smaller the business and the less corporate they are. Airbnb is just corporate leeching without any benefits.
As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments
Yes, you get it! It's not my job to take care of your house dumbasses!!
"Strike" would imply you work lmao
I remember renting vacation houses and cabins a few times before AirBnB got big from smaller companies. That was way better because it worked more like a hotel where they actually had cleaning staff and other staff. It was much nicer stopping by an office, checking in with an actual human who is professional and courteous and getting a key, as opposed to dealing with shitty tech bros and slum lords both trying to get maximum profit while doing the bare minimum.
I’m not going to do anything at an Airbnb that I wouldn’t do at an actual bend and breakfast or normal hotel room.
These owners are making money off of me. I’m not doing their damn chores for them. “Protecting your investments“ does not include taking out the fucking trash and stripping the bed.
Bend and breakfast? With blackjack and hookers? Take my money!
oops…. 😅
A different self-described host declared that going forward, the kitchens in their rentals will be “stripped down to only bare essentials.”
You think your Airbnb kitchen is currently well equipped?! 😂
I actually travel with a mini sharpener to make Airbnb knives usable.
Fuck these parasites, I'll continue to not use Airbnb.
They tried to run hotels without running hotels and are surprised maintenance and cleanup is on them, not guests? Wow, I am shocked
Exactly. Finally some sane choices by Airbnb.
But I wonder what's the real reason, because no company is so nice towards final customers. Maybe Airbnb saw a decrease on booking on their platform because people are rightly fed up with that bullshit and they just prefer hotels.
It's because bookings are down. Even Marriott offers full house rentals, that operate the exact same as their hotels, minus the free breakfast (And sometimes light dinner that some hotels offer).
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All AirBnBs do is buy up affordable housing and convert it into passive income. It's one of the main reasons we have this major housing crisis today
Just chech your city. Even if the data is inflated it is still shocking.
Unfortunately my city, along with the major city I live near, are not options available on that site. :(
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They're lucky they still exist. Fuck airbnb
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Hotels are superior anyways. Source: just called down to the front desk to extend my stay another few days, took 30 seconds
Accept the risks of them... not washing the dishes?
This means nothing to me seeing I've only stayed in an Airbnb twice in my life and thought a hotel was way better.
Hotels are fine when you are alone or a couple. When you have (young) kids an appartement or house is much better, where the kids get a room. Hotels have family rooms, but its usually an extra bed in the same small hotel room. Where you basically have to be silent when the kids go to bed and have zero time as a couple.
This is why suites are available at hotels. I typically just get Extended Stay suites for this very reason. They come with a kitchen, and service for 4. Housekeeping stops in daily, empties trash, takes dirty dishes away and replaces them with cleaning servingware, runs a vacuum, replaces towels if needed, etc etc.
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Omg, Airbnb better fix this quick if all their hosts are furious at them. Or maybe the title of this article is highly, highly exaggerated.
Airbnb hosts are like the used car salesmen of landlords.
I travel around Southeast Asia and China/Hong Kong and stay in guesthouses mostly.
I haven't dealt with an Airbnb host since one charged me for electric, lol.
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“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,”
As hosts, you can go fuck yourselves after what you did with the house market.
“The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”
No, the problem is that you expect all the good from the hotel market without all the bad from the hotel market. Because let's be honest, you're not renting your house or your room for one night eventually, you're trying to live off this, and that makes you a hotel.
No sympathy for these assholes that only deserve the worst after fucking so many cities and towns.
Some hosts are threatening to strike
Oh please... don't threaten us with a good time. Please do, strike indefinitely. My only hope is that you start losing money and go broke because that's what you deserve for making a business off the house market.
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