> If a place is not safe/sanitary/etc., and AirBnB still allows it to be listed, people will have a bad AirBnB experience and stop using AirBnB and/or that rent

> If a place is not safe/sanitary/etc., and AirBnB still allows it to be listed, people will have a bad AirBnB experience and stop using AirBnB and/or that renter. Well that's one way to regulate a market. But those are soft regulations. You do those things because the market demands it. There are not so soft regulations, these are done because the market wouldn't know enough about them to demand it. Like making sure the fire suppression system is actually installed, inspected, and functional. The fire exits aren't locked the wrong way. I assume you test each smoke detector in your rental before handing over money? While you have a problem with regulations some of them don't bother me. I live near the beach. 50 years ago I wouldn't be allowed to set foot on it because of my skin. It seems silly now but the gov't came in with teeth and said, "hey what you are doing isn't right." The market was rewarding these hotels for being racist shitheels. Gov't regulation put a bullet in it.