As a father, why the hell would you invite strangers into your home with your children in it? It's not like you make bank with Airbnb.
Don't do it.
Ask HN: How Should Airbnb Respond to Trespassing?
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#12This sounds worthy of a news story. Get it printed so others know.
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#13Sounds scary, but you have to be prepared for situations like this if you are getting roommates in your house (through AirBNB or otherwise, same thing).
I agree with someone else that the story isn't entirely clearly written but I think I get it.
Really be interested to know-- did the renter actually leave their cats and bags there?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Airbnb is nothing like letting property though. Letting property involves bonds and background checks. There are no cleaners fees, different people coming and going. Letting a place out is easier than Airbnb and a management agency can do a lot of it for you. It’s also generally a legal thing to do and not in violation of agreements you have with other tenants or management of an apartment block or the council or cit…
Using Airbnb is letting property. As I commented, owners ignore this at their peril. If you are bound by covenants not to let or sublet then using AirBnb would definitely be a breach.
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You are technically correct. AirBnB is letting/renting in the broad definition. This broad definition also includes renting a Jackhammer from a trade store, or using one of those pay as you go scooters on the street.
However to use such a broad definition, I am not sure what your original point was.
My point is that there is a big difference between "letting" as what it normally refers to in this context - a lease agreement for people to live in a residential property, with tenants rights implied, and some law covering this area and AirBnB which is more like a hotel service.
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#15What an unpleasant host experience!
What level of vetting does your friend do with accepting guest reservations? Do they communicate with the guest before allowing a reservation? Or was it a “reserve now at this price” deal? The more experienced Airbnb hosts usually check a guest’s subjective “rating” (via previous host’s comments) and their rental history.
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#16I m not sure i understand what happened. The story is written badly. who s mindright? What does Audible have to do with it? Did your friend rent a house in airbnb? who was asked to leave?
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#17I m not sure i understand what happened. The story is written badly. who s mindright? What does Audible have to do with it? Did your friend rent a house in airbnb? who was asked to leave?
It’s really quite simple. The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb. That friend had a guest who overstayed their welcome. This happened in Brooklyn at 4pm, but it wasn’t until 1am that the police removed the guest. Four cats remained in the rented room and we aren’t sure what happened to them as of yet.
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#18I m not sure i understand what happened. The story is written badly. who s mindright? What does Audible have to do with it? Did your friend rent a house in airbnb? who was asked to leave?
It’s really quite simple. The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb. That friend had a guest who overstayed their welcome. This happened in Brooklyn at 4pm, but it wasn’t until 1am that the police removed the guest. Four cats remained in the rented room an…
> The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb
It could have been clearer, we don't need all that irrelevant detail. "Staying with a friend" would suffice -
"in the Audible building in Newark" was totally irrelevant
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#19AirBnB has issues yeah, but I'm not sure what you expect them to do there. They have no ability to physically remove people from property - only the Police can do that. They have no authority to tell the Police what to do either, since they don't own the property or have any particular rights to it. Changing either of those would be profoundly weird. Is removing their reservation on the AirBnB system really important in that situation?