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Do you find it a hassle to rent out like this? Do you ever have any bad guests? What's your occupancy percentage in a typical month ?
by vincefutr23 11y ago
Do you find it a hassle to rent out like this? Do you ever have any bad guests? What's your occupancy percentage in a typical month ?
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- kafkaesq 11y agoAh, so you're renting the apartment. What do the terms of your lease say about this?
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- kafkaesq 11y agoWould you mind answering the question? Does your lease permit this kind of a sublet, or does it not?
- fineman 11y agoWhy? You're fishing. Just come out and say whatever you're going to say.
- kafkaesq 11y agoThere's no need. His "response", as such, was quite telling.
- fineman 11y agoQuite telling of what, though? You're still just hinting. What are you trying to say?
- kafkaesq 11y agoI wasn't going to "shame" or denounce the guy, if that's what you were fishing for. I'll leave moralistic judgements up to those directly impacted by his activities -- in this case, his landlord and his neighbors (and quite possible, depending on how he files his returns, the NYC taxpayer, as well). But on broader fronts, the poster's confession does add to the body of anecdotal evidence we have (being as hard data would be extremely difficult to come by) that a significant chunk of Aribnb's business model is based on outright fraud, in various forms. "Outsourced" fraud, one might, for which Airbnb can't be held directly or legally culpable -- but fraud, pure and simple, nonetheless. And even if only 5-10% (a very conservative guess) of Airbnb's host are engaged in a comparable sort of scheme -- we're still talking about a scale affecting quite literally millions of people, globally. Which in turn the leadership of Airbnb must no doubt be cognizant of one some level; and -- until they're forced to do otherwise (because you we nearly always have to force these companies to behave properly, it turns out) -- more than happy to turn a blind eye at. "Socializing costs, privatizing gains", in other words.
- fineman 11y agoSorry, forgot to check this far back. Yes, though. I am sort of saying that by asking one guy out of a crowd very obvious questions you were attempting to publicly shame him or call him on something. Were you actually asking that question to gain a data point you needed, or was it mainly commentary? Anyways, like with Uber. I know the taxi's companies have a government granted monopoly. I don't ride with Uber because I'm ignorant of that, I ride with them almost because of that fact (and that they're just so much better of an experience). But as a rider I have nothing to lose. With AirBnB when people are waving around fairly ludicrous threats of fines and liens on your property, who'd admit to anything when they know the other side is just looking for a scapegoat?
- kafkaesq 11y agoMy intent wasn't to "shame" him -- but if he understood the consequences of his actions (and to collect the data point). With AirBnB when people are waving around fairly ludicrous threats of fines and liens on your property, who'd admit to anything when they know the other side is just looking for a scapegoat? I'm not sure what threats you're referring to. The collateral damage (to property owners, neighbors ... and as we have seen from the other article posted today[1], to customers who fall on the wrong side of Airbnb's liability coverage) are very real -- so I don't see the concerns people are raising about it as "scapegoating." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531229
- ceejayoz 11y agoWhy dodge the question? Doing so answers it just as well as a "no, it's not allowed by my lease" would, and looks sillier to boot.