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This x a million
How much are you charging for an airbnb if you think you can make 1.4 million back?
My guess is they’d probably hope to break even most of the year (maybe $3k a week?) and then really go ham a few times a year during stuff like Coachella.
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just to bump a previous issue of mine from a previous incarnation of this thread
I’ve been A/B testing interactions with these shitheads, currently my best performer is “hey there friend, are ya lost? do you need directions?” which kinda disarms them a bit and then I helpfully tell them “the dog park is over there, dumbass.”
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They make all their money during Coachella. Big luxury houses rent for like $50k or something ridiculous.
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$3k per week to the owners is probably in the ballpark for a nice property.
A year or two ago I rented a small-mid sized house in Palm Springs for 4 nights, total for just the house was $1800 but with all the fees and taxes it was $2500. The management company probably takes 10% of the main house charge plus some of the fees so the owners would get around $1600 for 4 nights.
1.4 million in Palm Springs is probably just getting you a smaller 2-3 bed and 1-2 bath house, certainly not a mansion or anything.
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“It’s okay! He’s just friendly!”
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I’ve done Turo a couple of times and it’s fine. Pickup/Dropoff is far superior.
Only downside is that I worry about some random haggling about some microscopic scratch on their car that I allegedly caused. Rental car companies generally won’t come after you unless there is something significant. Although I hear that is changing, so maybe I will Turo more often in the future.
I avoid enterprise everywhere and anything else as a neighborhood store. I’ve heard enough horror stories that the same scratch/dent has probably been billed 5+ times without ever being repaired.
Airports are pretty low key about their cars. Just drop and go.
I have heard that Hertz is now doing that same sort of thing too. Probably should start taking photographs of the car before I leave.
Late Stage Capitalism
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A quick walk around video at pickup AND drop off is always a good idea. Photo any obvious damage. Or just return cars to busy airports. They dgaf there.
Source: my brother is an exec level employee at a major car rental company amd worked his way up through all the positions at satellite branches to airports etc.
Here’s a terrific picture of our very own @von_Internet:
I think he’s the one with the cake.
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What the fuck is going on at the FDIC?
A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. lawyer remained on paid administrative leave for 10 weeks after he was indicted on federal charges related to the production, possession and distribution of child pornography, an agency official said.
Mark A. Black, who most recently served as special counsel at the FDIC, was indicted on Sept. 14 and arrested the next day, court records show. Federal prosecutors said that between January 2018 and October 2021, Black was part of two online groups whose goal was to track down young girls online and persuade them to livestream themselves participating in sexually explicit conduct, which Black and his co-conspirators secretly recorded.
New Zealand politics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>US politics
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Also is there anything better than reunion videos on social media? It’s rhetorical because the answer is no!