Definitely true, although I suspect the actual frequency of such late-night partiers and other terrible guests is exaggerated. A conversation-starter I like to

Definitely true, although I suspect the actual frequency of such late-night partiers and other terrible guests is exaggerated. A conversation-starter I like to use on my hosts is to ask about their bad experiences with tenants, and most of them tend to have fairly boring ones, usually about some hard-to-please guest or another. I've yet to hear of one of the drug-fuelled late-night orgies that discussions on AirBnB seem to hold as commonplace, even from hosts who have been renting dozens of apartments for years. Then again, I do tend to stay at apartments that are available monthly, which may make a difference.