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Where in the world could you have spent $5k on a temporary rental!? That's all of my money.

by brailsafe 5y ago

a2tech 5y ago
It was Columbus Ohio for an entire house (that allowed dogs), for a couple of weeks.
- brailsafe 5y ago
  I guess even that kind of surprises me, unless Columbus is particularly expensive, but I suppose that sort of justifies the author's point. Should there be full houses on AirBnB for multiple weeks at a rate very favourable compared to a typical mortage?
  - ericmay 5y ago
    Columbus is cheap compared to many places but not super cheap. It’s more so that’s just the going rate to rent a house that allows dogs for a few weeks. Go look at what a hotel costs each night. If they rented for 21 days and paid $5,000 total, that’s $250/night which will get you a decent hotel in Columbus but no dogs, no yard, living in a hotel versus a house… So I’d say the price is about spot on for what I’d expect.
    - a2tech 5y ago
      Exactly--during the pandemic we've gotten used to traveling with our dog and can't imagine leaving him behind anymore. Its crazy how expensive places are when you bring the dog. And we want a yard and clothes washer.
      - brailsafe 5y ago
        Ya I don't have one, so that's a world I'm unaware of, but normally just sleep in a car or something anyway and skip renting a room entirely because it's too much.
    - brailsafe 5y ago
      Hotels are expensive, goddamn.
      - ericmay 5y ago
        You can get a cheaper one and you can actually negotiate long-term rates too. But yea generally they’re not that cheap especially b/c the price shown never includes things like occupancy tax and “resort fees”.
  - dorchadas 5y ago
    Honestly, there shouldn't be full houses/empty apartments on AirBnB period. All that does is eat up local supply and force the externalities onto locals of the area, screwing them over for (in most cases) tourists. Like pretty much everything AirBnB does.
- downut 5y ago
  Three years ago this happened to us at midnight before the check-in day for an AirBnB in Bucharest. I had to spend a couple of hours in the middle of the night with AirBnB support messaging back and forth. But AirBnB handled it near perfectly for us, with an decent accepted place after a couple of hours, full refund, etc. Otherwise it would have really sucked to be on a bus the next day, out of both cell and wifi range. The fact that they f'd this up in the US is... not good. Well everything rots in the end. Thank you google for that pixel that I paid for on a CC that went 1:1 to AirBnB credit, we had a lot of fun burning through that. Other than that we've had exactly one bummer AirBnB, in Queretaro MX. Our place on the penultimate floor of a very US looking apartment complex apparently was located under some sort of factory on the top floor, and produced vibrations all night long that I kid you not caused eg various phones to walk along whatever surface they were placed on.
  - a2tech 5y ago
    I'm glad they straightened things out for you. We were furious at first, but were really glad that we had our car and spoke the language of the place we were. There's no way we can trust Airbnb in the future when visiting places where we CAN'T just turn around and drive home to our house.
fragmede 5y ago
The disparity is shocking, but exposure to outside viewpoints of those in other walks of life is so important. I've not sold a start-up (yet), but exposure to millionaires, and how they approach spending money (some thriftily, some with reckless abandon) has been fascinating. I didn't properly grock the phrase "penny-wise and pound foolish" until after I'd seen how expensive, in time, or emotional labor, or otherwise, some "free" options (eg borrowing someone's truck vs renting a uhaul) really are.
- brailsafe 5y ago
  Agreed. There's an area of my city that I only recently visited for the first time, but have heard is quite wealthy. Well, everywhere in Vancouver is hilariously out of reach, so what could wealthy mean? It means that the average home spans half of an entire block, costs $10-30m dollars, and these people park their cars (if they're lazy) in a space that's twice the size of my home.

Where in the world could you have spent $5k on a temporary rental!? That's all of my money.

a2tech 5y ago

It was Columbus Ohio for an entire house (that allowed dogs), for a couple of weeks.

brailsafe 5y ago
I guess even that kind of surprises me, unless Columbus is particularly expensive, but I suppose that sort of justifies the author's point. Should there be full houses on AirBnB for multiple weeks at a rate very favourable compared to a typical mortage?
- ericmay 5y ago
  Columbus is cheap compared to many places but not super cheap. It’s more so that’s just the going rate to rent a house that allows dogs for a few weeks. Go look at what a hotel costs each night. If they rented for 21 days and paid $5,000 total, that’s $250/night which will get you a decent hotel in Columbus but no dogs, no yard, living in a hotel versus a house… So I’d say the price is about spot on for what I’d expect.
  - a2tech 5y ago
    Exactly--during the pandemic we've gotten used to traveling with our dog and can't imagine leaving him behind anymore. Its crazy how expensive places are when you bring the dog. And we want a yard and clothes washer.
    - brailsafe 5y ago
      Ya I don't have one, so that's a world I'm unaware of, but normally just sleep in a car or something anyway and skip renting a room entirely because it's too much.
  - brailsafe 5y ago
    Hotels are expensive, goddamn.
    - ericmay 5y ago
      You can get a cheaper one and you can actually negotiate long-term rates too. But yea generally they’re not that cheap especially b/c the price shown never includes things like occupancy tax and “resort fees”.
- dorchadas 5y ago
  Honestly, there shouldn't be full houses/empty apartments on AirBnB period. All that does is eat up local supply and force the externalities onto locals of the area, screwing them over for (in most cases) tourists. Like pretty much everything AirBnB does.
downut 5y ago
Three years ago this happened to us at midnight before the check-in day for an AirBnB in Bucharest. I had to spend a couple of hours in the middle of the night with AirBnB support messaging back and forth. But AirBnB handled it near perfectly for us, with an decent accepted place after a couple of hours, full refund, etc. Otherwise it would have really sucked to be on a bus the next day, out of both cell and wifi range. The fact that they f'd this up in the US is... not good. Well everything rots in the end. Thank you google for that pixel that I paid for on a CC that went 1:1 to AirBnB credit, we had a lot of fun burning through that. Other than that we've had exactly one bummer AirBnB, in Queretaro MX. Our place on the penultimate floor of a very US looking apartment complex apparently was located under some sort of factory on the top floor, and produced vibrations all night long that I kid you not caused eg various phones to walk along whatever surface they were placed on.
- a2tech 5y ago
  I'm glad they straightened things out for you. We were furious at first, but were really glad that we had our car and spoke the language of the place we were. There's no way we can trust Airbnb in the future when visiting places where we CAN'T just turn around and drive home to our house.

fragmede 5y ago

The disparity is shocking, but exposure to outside viewpoints of those in other walks of life is so important. I've not sold a start-up (yet), but exposure to millionaires, and how they approach spending money (some thriftily, some with reckless abandon) has been fascinating. I didn't properly grock the phrase "penny-wise and pound foolish" until after I'd seen how expensive, in time, or emotional labor, or otherwise, some "free" options (eg borrowing someone's truck vs renting a uhaul) really are.

brailsafe 5y ago
Agreed. There's an area of my city that I only recently visited for the first time, but have heard is quite wealthy. Well, everywhere in Vancouver is hilariously out of reach, so what could wealthy mean? It means that the average home spans half of an entire block, costs $10-30m dollars, and these people park their cars (if they're lazy) in a space that's twice the size of my home.