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It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses. I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. Y
by mangeletti 10y ago
It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses.
I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. You also have to be inspected by the health department. Same goes for running a hotel. That stuff all costs money, and it's not up to a private business (AirBnB) to determine how to enforce such laws, even though their existence does change the landscape.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt seems my phrasing was unclear. With "to sleep and eat breakfast", my intent was: a customer to sleep somewhere and eat breakfast there (as the end user), not for a business to serve that customer. I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.
- mangeletti 10y agoYou're phrasing was clear. The person making the analogy was comparing the drivers to the hosts.