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You can rent monthly on Airbnb. If I can get a house for 1200/month on Airbnb vs what used to be available on Craigslist for 800 or 600 a month, is that Airbnb’
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
You can rent monthly on Airbnb. If I can get a house for 1200/month on Airbnb vs what used to be available on Craigslist for 800 or 600 a month, is that Airbnb’s fault, or is it just the market rate now and it happens that Airbnb is the platform de jour ?
- unreal37 5y agoTo be honest, there's no way that using AirBnb can be cheaper than renting the same place directly with the landlord. AirBnb charges fees of 14% to guests. Those fees are added to the rent. That is indeed "AirBnb's fault" that they have their own 14% fees on your rent if you're planning to stay there long term.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoMy conjecture wasn't that AirBnB is cheaper, but that the price of housing is what the market will bear. Maybe the fact that a landlord that would usually have to find a new tenant though word of mouth or classified ads can now advertise to a much wider audience has the result of making the landlord more money and making housing more expensive.