And this is why I won’t stay in an AirBnB.
Well, that and the habit of hosts to cancel a reservation if they think they can relist the rental and make more. Or decide to just use the property themselves that month. And the lack of a professional management company. The lack of standards. Is it even cleaned by a professional with standards between each guest? And all those additional fees tacked on to everything…
And of course the rampant racism, even though most of the racists would be happy to rent to me.
And then there’s the larger issues of what short-term mercenary rentals do to the local rental market, the neighborhoods that they are in, and the problems with the availability of housing in those markets.
Honestly… the whole thing seems pretty problematic…
Which is kind of sad. The concept of renting an entire house at the lake or by the beach or an apartment in a vibrant downtown neighborhood seems really cool. It just enables so much bad behavior…
