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With normal tenants, you gamble once every couple of months or years. With AirBNB, you roll the dice possibly every few days or more. It's the same difference
by shados 10y ago
With normal tenants, you gamble once every couple of months or years. With AirBNB, you roll the dice possibly every few days or more.
It's the same difference as owner occupancy vs renters, but taken to the next order of magnitude.
- pm90 10y agoGood point. If you think about it, if everyone was responsible and stuff, these kinds of incidents could be avoided and the system would work so much better. I mean, I know that financially the host might be compensated but personally, the stress of having my home torn apart like that by strangers would be too much for me.
- Asooka 10y agoAlso, with normal tenants you don't rent the home you live in.
- collyw 10y agoYou rent them the home that they live in.
- m-i-l 10y agoPoint taken. Although the original point is that it might happen more than you might think with traditional letting agencies, if you aggregated all of the individual cases over all of the 10s of 1000s of letting agencies in the country. And it might not make the news as much if it happens with traditional letting agencies, given the media tends to like stories which paint new things/technology in a bad light.