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Because I'm renting out my personal residence. Why should we lump hotels and my apt into the same bucket? They are different types of businesses. I think it's

Because I'm renting out my personal residence. Why should we lump hotels and my apt into the same bucket? They are different types of businesses. I think it's unreasonable to say that all home-sharers must act like hotels.

wang_li 10y ago
There are plenty of smaller, older, hotels where the owner lives on site.
JonFish85 10y ago
Ok, maybe a better analog is that Airbnb should have rules adhering to the laws for landlords?
chimeracoder 10y ago
> I think it's unreasonable to say that all home-sharers must act like hotels. First, Airbnb hosts are not "sharing" their homes. They're renting them out for financial profits. Second, the name is literally Airbnb, as in "Bed and Breakfast". Most B&Bs don't get anything close to that amount of information, and it's illegal for them to discriminate on the basis of protected classes, just like hotels.
- Canada 10y ago
  > First, Airbnb hosts are not "sharing" their homes. They're renting them out for financial profits. Respectfully, I disagree. If you allow someone to stay in the home you live in while you're away, to sleep in your bed, to cook in your kitchen, drink from your cups, and so on, you are most definitely sharing your home. It doesn't matter if you profit or not for that to be true. I know a lot of Airbnb hosts aren't doing this. They're renting out places they never lived in. There's a big difference.
  - st3v3r 10y ago
    I disagree with your disagreement, and I don't see why that should have anything to do with not having to follow the law.
- spaceflunky 10y ago
  Screening guests =/= racism I, personally, am not arguing that discrimination isn't wrong (though some other threads have clarified the actual legality). I'm just saying that the methods Airbnb has chosen to prevent said discrimination also make it impossible for me to host and those methods are shaky at best.
  - URSpider94 10y ago
    It may not be racism, but it's certainly discrimination, in the sense that you are selecting who gets to conduct business with you based upon subjective criteria.
    - dmichulke 10y ago
      Whenever you - book a flight, - buy bread or milk, or - get a girl friend you discrimate in favor of one and against all others. Subjective discrimination is the only way to choose, discrimination is the sure consequence of your every choice.
      - greenleafjacob 10y ago
        What you are talking about is as far away from AirBNB as selling call options on AAPL on NASDAQ is to selling an iPhone on craigslist.
  - st3v3r 10y ago
    Airbnb has not done anything to make it impossible for you to host.
- notfromhere 10y ago
  Airbnb skirts regulations by pretending its not a hotel service; you can't have it both ways.
st3v3r 10y ago
"Because I'm renting out my personal residence." That's your choice. No one made you. "Why should we lump hotels and my apt into the same bucket? They are different types of businesses" They really aren't. They provide the same service. "I think it's unreasonable to say that all home-sharers must act like hotels." I don't. Especially with regards to anti-discrimination laws.

wang_li 10y ago

There are plenty of smaller, older, hotels where the owner lives on site.

JonFish85 10y ago

Ok, maybe a better analog is that Airbnb should have rules adhering to the laws for landlords?

chimeracoder 10y ago

> I think it's unreasonable to say that all home-sharers must act like hotels. First, Airbnb hosts are not "sharing" their homes. They're renting them out for financial profits. Second, the name is literally Airbnb, as in "Bed and Breakfast". Most B&Bs don't get anything close to that amount of information, and it's illegal for them to discriminate on the basis of protected classes, just like hotels.

Canada 10y ago
> First, Airbnb hosts are not "sharing" their homes. They're renting them out for financial profits. Respectfully, I disagree. If you allow someone to stay in the home you live in while you're away, to sleep in your bed, to cook in your kitchen, drink from your cups, and so on, you are most definitely sharing your home. It doesn't matter if you profit or not for that to be true. I know a lot of Airbnb hosts aren't doing this. They're renting out places they never lived in. There's a big difference.
- st3v3r 10y ago
  I disagree with your disagreement, and I don't see why that should have anything to do with not having to follow the law.
spaceflunky 10y ago
Screening guests =/= racism I, personally, am not arguing that discrimination isn't wrong (though some other threads have clarified the actual legality). I'm just saying that the methods Airbnb has chosen to prevent said discrimination also make it impossible for me to host and those methods are shaky at best.
- URSpider94 10y ago
  It may not be racism, but it's certainly discrimination, in the sense that you are selecting who gets to conduct business with you based upon subjective criteria.
  - dmichulke 10y ago
    Whenever you - book a flight, - buy bread or milk, or - get a girl friend you discrimate in favor of one and against all others. Subjective discrimination is the only way to choose, discrimination is the sure consequence of your every choice.
    - greenleafjacob 10y ago
      What you are talking about is as far away from AirBNB as selling call options on AAPL on NASDAQ is to selling an iPhone on craigslist.
- st3v3r 10y ago
  Airbnb has not done anything to make it impossible for you to host.
notfromhere 10y ago
Airbnb skirts regulations by pretending its not a hotel service; you can't have it both ways.

st3v3r 10y ago

"Because I'm renting out my personal residence." That's your choice. No one made you. "Why should we lump hotels and my apt into the same bucket? They are different types of businesses" They really aren't. They provide the same service. "I think it's unreasonable to say that all home-sharers must act like hotels." I don't. Especially with regards to anti-discrimination laws.