AirBnB actively lobbies all around the US to prevent state and local authorities from regulating them.
There’s just nothing there to ensure that airbnbs are clean/safe/actually as advertised, and no mechanism for recourse if something is wrong.
Make that 6 weeks in countries that have proper leave periods.
In general we should be encouraging people to travel and broaden their experiences. Then perhaps they might not be such arseholes back at home.
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AirBNB rentals are illegal and even in places they are not they are pretty much demonized by most of the locals in a lot of places abroad I have traveled.
My simplistic view is that airbnb increases the incentive to hoard property, which is a bad thing, making airbnb a bad thing for society. It’s obviously a good thing for the landowner and can be a good thing for the renter, but the net effect seems certainly negative.
Yeah it’s pretty much this. Like on day 1 it made some sense - a person going away for the weekend could rent their vacant apartment out. That’s just utilizing an inactive resource. But after a while we ended up with numbered corps borrowing money to buy property to rent out on the platform which is a whole different thing.
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They do now. They probably didn’t before they became popular. And anyway, I’m (we’re) mostly talking about the concept of short term rentals, not that specific company and ALL companies lobby for whatever shit they can get. Companies are bad.
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6 weeks is fine. But you could do a house swap. Might need a site like airbnswap or something for that.
Corps buying houses and building for long term rentals is a problem too.
Sure but at a minimum one set of rules is better than multiple sets of rules.
To help bring consistency across stores and clubs, we will require all shoppers to wear a face covering starting Monday, July 20.
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It just struck me as funny that the unquestioned position itt seemed to simultaneously be that airbnb landlords are undercutting other landlords to make great profits and are simultaneously going out of business because they don’t have enough money to do it and no one else, not even the people renting on the platform is getting a good deal.
People generally go away for 2 x 2 weeks or 3 x 2 weeks.
I always knew Walmart was secretly Communist.
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Why? There are a handful of cases of plague each year and it’s generally curable.
No, you’re right as a practical matter. You could put your house up to rent for those few weeks though so that no house is vacant.
oh shit, videos of people going apeshit in the store going to skyrocket.
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Florida just tacked on another 112 deaths, and 10,121 new cases on just over 50,000 tests maintaining their 20% positive test rate. This is the first time they have gone over 100 deaths on back to back days before.
You could, but the prospect of coming back after a long flight to a trashed house just for a weeks rent probably won’t appeal to many people.
A bigger problem in the housing market imo is people owning more than one property, especially buy to let landlords (aka price gougers). In countries with a small appetite and space for new towns eg the UK I think home ownership should be restricted to one per person. As always there are loopholes that could be hard to close eg company ownership.
When were you in India?