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Not sure about recently, but I’ve had the opposite experience living in Airbnb’s three months at a time when I was in between my startup and current job. My tw
by 0x8BADF00D 8y ago
Not sure about recently, but I’ve had the opposite experience living in Airbnb’s three months at a time when I was in between my startup and current job.
My two hosts were very friendly, and I got on great with them.
My first host would throw weekly dinner parties, cooking fresh organic food with vegetables she grew in her garden. When I was sick she would bring me breakfast in bed. Indeed, this woman was a wonderful human being.
My second host I would hang out with on an almost daily basis, we became really good friends. Hockey games, getting smashed on the weekdays, and other such fun times. I’ve kept in touch with both.
- woolvalley 8y agoIt's like contracts. When everything is good, they don't matter. They only matter when things go bad.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoOr human relationships. As one of my old friend/coworker once said, your reputation is like a whiteboard. Once there is a tiny black dot upon it, you’re screwed.
- blub 8y agoYour colleague is obviously wrong. Think Cosby and Weinstein or look at the other AirBnB examples in this thread.
- CaptainZapp 8y agoThe problem is that the whole model changed a lot. Chances are much bigger that you wind up in some cooky cutter appartment of dubious quality and design managed by some management company that manages dozens, if not hundreds of such appartments and gives exactly zero fucks about your well being. Experiences as you describe them certainly exist. My girlfriend had a great experience in San Francisco, but that was in 2014. My expreiences are very mixed and the reviews are rather useless in my opinion. Since I had a couple of youngster neighbors turning their temporary (and illegal) sub lease into an illegal hotel I will not use AirBnb again. It's just too damn painful for the people actually living in a multi party dwelling.