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parent post reminded me of my experience living in Hilton Head and working for the local internet provider. Storms and loss of power are really common in the a
by busterarm 1y ago
parent post reminded me of my experience living in Hilton Head and working for the local internet provider.
Storms and loss of power are really common in the area and we would get a flood of really belligerent callers with the following circumstances:
- Lives over 1000 miles away out of state
- Owns multiple AirBNBs in the area
- The locks for their doors required an internet connection and power to function
- They didn't have a local property manager
- Their guests were locked out
It was hilarious because they were screaming and hollering and demanding immediate service from the internet company to get their locks fixed because they were too cheap to hire a local to service the properties and reboot the fiber ONT after a power outage.
And this was about 15 years ago, so I think the "recent decline" of AirBNB is exaggerated and that these owners have always been on the platform, they're now just the _only_ owners on the platform.