“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.

in many cases, our personal living spaces,

Maybe don't let strangers stay in your home then? That's what hotels are for dummy.

As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments

That's not at all what the word "host" means.

Strike? Against whom, yourself? You're the boss.
This must be murica, hereabouts no guest will do any cleaning.

As a neighbor of one of these, I had a guest try to confront me. I live in a narrow street and have lots of colonial walls that make drives sketchy. I can’t safely back out to leave my home if the guests street park…rather than for some reason use the completely functional driveway the building has. They do so anyway. I have them towed. One lady came out while I was sitting on the stoop because I had told my daughter I was calling the tow truck (not even loudly, she must have been creeping). She tried to shame me by saying “you just have to ask nicely” to which my response was “you just have to read” and pointed at the sign, and the yellow line reading “do not park.” She really wanted me to feel bad or something, which I didn’t, and I still do not. I have explained to the owner that I won’t be asking nicely to use my driveway in the home I pay for from the guests of a hotel, I will be documenting, and I will have them towed. Hasn’t happened in a while. Idk why this bitch thought she could talk to me like I was an npc in my own neighborhood.

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!!

They won’t strike. $10,000 says they don’t strike.

They need airbnb to pay for their overpriced mortgages, so a strike means selling off their assets.

They tried to run hotels without running hotels and are surprised maintenance and cleanup is on them, not guests? Wow, I am shocked

If I was a customer forced to pay a $50-100 "cleaning fee" I wouldn't clean absolutely anything, that's what the fee is supposed to be

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

Independent contractors threatening to strike will never not be extremely, raucously hilarious.

If you know such an idiot, please laugh as hard as you can, right in their face.

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Enjoy being foreclosed on, you collosally arrogant, absolute wastes of human life. Your pain is the rest of society healing, and you deserve all of it.

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.

Tech is being used to speed run the history of every industry with themselves inserted in the middle to collect fees.

Maybe instead of striking they can form some sort of collective entity of their own. Some sort of group providing lodging for travelers. If they get big enough someday they might even have upscale luxury services such as cleaning. I believe the French have a fancy word for this: le hôtel.

"striking" would imply they were performing any work in the first place lmao

In the early days I really didn’t mind loading the dishwasher and throwing a load of towels in the washer before I left. I’m nice and not a slob. Now so many owners farm it out to management companies, hired maintenance workers and cleaning services. On top of that, and probably because they are paying the cleaners by the hour, they want to hold your guest rating hostage to make you do the work. If they want to charge that much more than a hotel nowadays, I want to get hotel service.

Fuck these parasites, I'll continue to not use Airbnb.

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.

Yeah. The hosts are pissed they have to pay the labor costs of cleaning crews rather than just their mortgages.

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.

What's the problem? Hosts can still charge cleaning fees but they can't force guests to do chores.

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.

They're lucky they still exist. Fuck airbnb

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.

This is long overdue, and stuff like this is why I don't use Airbnb anymore.

When it started, rentals used to be generally cheaper than hotels and easier to deal with. Than people started buying houses for the express purpose of listing them on Airbnb. It became a profession. And things got stupid. I don't want to pay more than hotel prices in order to get a tiny cottage that doesn't come with any of the amenities a hotel room would.

The only time I even consider it these days is if I'm doing something with a bunch of people where we need a whole house and a hotel would be prohibitively expensive. Other than that I stay away.

Changes like this make me more interested in giving it another shot.

From the article:

In a Facebook group for Airbnb hosts, one person posted what they claimed was a screenshot of their failed attempt to edit their property’s “Requests” section. They tried to ask guests to wash and air-dry dishes, put dirty towels in the laundry room, and take trash to a dumpster at an RV park they could find using a map on the refrigerator.

Until now, guests were supposed to pay huge cleaning fees AND clean AND drive their trash offsite to an RV park to deposit in the park's dumpster? The one that the RV park and its guests are paying for?

Trash collection isn't free, and in many rural areas isn't run by the local township via property owners who pay the town for it via fees; that's a city thing. Outside big cities it's often something you have to arrange and pay for yourself, and this is especially true for commercial dumpsters. Like one you'd find at an RV park.

I got $100 that says there is no actual agreement between this RV park's owners and this AirBNB host, that the RV park owner suspects but does not know, and that this AirBNB host just figured her AirBNB guests would blend in with the RVers while she raked in a five-finger trash discount for herself.

And nobody seemed to even notice. The Facebook post this came from has a link in the article; I don't have Facebook but I'd honestly be shocked if anyone even caught this.

Stealing trash service from your neighboring business on top of exorbitant cleaning fees for cleaning you refuse to do? As classy as the rest of AirBNB, I guess.

Accept the risks of them... not washing the dishes?

Hotels are superior anyways. Source: just called down to the front desk to extend my stay another few days, took 30 seconds

cry baby cry

The hostility these people have for their customers is really something to see.

As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces

Correct, since those are your moneymaker. You better be responsible for your assets, and that means investing in them. There's no free meal.