I had an absolutely terrible experience once that stems from AirBNB not inspecting any listings for things like bugs. It completely turned me off the whole syst

I had an absolutely terrible experience once that stems from AirBNB not inspecting any listings for things like bugs. It completely turned me off the whole system. VRBO seems to have a better system because they have regional managers in areas with lots of rentals, so there's a third party there who can deal with some issues you might have. Offloading all of that onto hosts leads to some pretty major conflicts of interest, where it's in AirBNB's best interest to pawn you off onto the owner, and it's in the owner's best interest to downplay any issues you might have.