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My Airbnb guests threw a New Year party for 300 people
- ryanmercer 8y agoYeah see, this is why I would never ever rent a room or property out via Aribnb and similar wildcards are why I would never drive strangers around. >the glass panel on my staircase Wait, what? > two couples with infants had stayed and I spent three hours with a cleaning crew That seems excessive if not odd. >Airbnb didn’t get back to me. After three days I decided to call the local press and share the videos we’d found to try to get the company’s attention So he waited until what, Wednesday January 3rd when presumably employees were likely still off from the holiday and dealing with a backlog to go running to the press? Ugh, I hate that we've created a society that waits hours, or days at best, to go running to press/social media to try and cause a disturbance instead of realizing "oh hey, it's a holiday and they probably have staff off and a backlog" in this instance or when a 'celebrity' has a 'problem' and takes to twitter like with Kevin Smith and 'too fat to fly'.
- EliRivers 8y ago>the glass panel on my staircase Wait, what? It's a transparent material often used to provide a physical barrier while still allowing the passage of light. It's quite brittle, though, and is easily shattered. You did ask.
- hitekker 8y ago>So he waited until what, Wednesday January 3rd... Yeah, three days. He was ignored for 3 days after a mob destroyed his house, and was only listened to after he went to the press. But, no, the tech giant is the victim here! How dare he even think about inconveniencing the multi-billion dollar corporation during its time-off! /s
- ryanmercer 8y ago>and was only listened to after he went to the press. Or more realistically, when employees returned to the office.
- tenebrisalietum 8y agoI've rented a room through Airbnb for about six months now and had no problems. However, it's a room in one side of our house, where we also live and come and go. We make quite a bit of money off of it and don't really worry about guests doing things we don't want since we're physically there most of the time. I wouldn't Airbnb an entire house without remote cameras to keep an eye on things though.
- DocTomoe 8y agoSo, when you go on a vacation, do you expect cameras in your hotel room's bedroom/toilet for staff to "keep an eye on things"?
- thatoneuser 8y agoThey likely do record you enough to know if you’re bringing 300 people to your room.
- tenebrisalietum 8y agoNo but certainly outside the door in the hallway, where a hotel staff would have free access anyway.
- EliRivers 8y agoBoys were charged to enter Ah, a young entrepreneur hacking the nightclub business, renting furnished space by the day and ignoring all the other rules and regulations too.
- omarchowdhury 8y agoThe homeowner loses, Airbnb loses, and what about perpetrator? He gets off scot free?
- randomacct3847 8y agoI’m honestly still shocked that Airbnb successfully normalized letting strangers sleep and have sex in your bed.
- gaius 8y agoThe story doesn’t mention if the protagonist (I won’t say “victim”) declared and paid taxes on his side income. If not it was a bit cheeky to call the police!