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I've seen options like those at more than one occasion. Flats rented out by room or bed, with the owner? (operator?) seemingly running it as a business. Don't
by angerman 13y ago
I've seen options like those at more than one occasion. Flats rented out by room or bed, with the owner? (operator?) seemingly running it as a business.
Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily consider that wrong. After all it's likely a little more like a youth hostel and gives you the option to maybe meet with a pre-screened[1] set of occupants? Making an option to meet people with similar interests, whether that's something you'd want to go for or not.
For me Airbnb always seemed covered that middle ground between Couchsurfing and Ho(s)tels.
[1]: what ever screening the host would really do is a completely different question. But having to be approved by the host gives the host a little option to screen those who come and go.
- bradleyjg 13y agoThe difference is that in a youth hostel everyone in the hostel signed up to be staying there. In an Airbnb hostel, all the neighbors signed up to be living in a condo/co-op/residential rental building and one guy decided on his own to turn his unit into a hostel.
- wslh 13y agoGood point but what's the differences between a short term rental an a longer term one? I mean, imagine that someone rents an apartment in a condo for 1yr, and they party all day, we are in a similar situation but with more rotation?
- bradleyjg 13y agoYou'd have to be very rich and have an extraordinarily resilient body to party all day all year round. Whereas an ever changing cast of vacationers can each party while on vacation and then return to quiet lives in their home town.
- jlgreco 13y agoBe young, drink cheap booze. You will pay for it later in life but you underestimate the capacity others have for a "party" life.
- paul_f 13y agoThis++. The 30-day rules are set up to protect the tenant across the hall.
- Gormo 13y agoProtect them from what?