Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
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Re: Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
#2Not only professional landlords but professional managers too. In LA I met with a woman who told me she manages 4 condo units in one complex and many others. Meets with people like me to give me keys, parking passes and checks on the unit when I leave.
Second AirBnB, same thing but he manages houses instead of condos.
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#3Is this surprising at all? Most "sharing" apps are now overrun by professionals in their field. The apps help the professional (or company) achieve zero cost customer acquisition cost.
In case the apps do catch up, these guys end up being "promoted" because they are a good fit. The pros make for much better "sales target" for these sharing apps.
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#4This is not a problem. In my experience, professional landlords & managers offer clean, updated apartments that are a joy to check into and are a way better place to stay than hotels. I love using Airbnb for specifically this reason.
It seems like in Europe, professional short-term apartment rental is a common thing anyway -- Airbnb just serves as a centralized listing platform. This is less common in the US.
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#5Was inevitable, what I would like to know from airbnb data is what % of properties are owned by or managed by the same accounts in a given area. "Show me all the properties owned/managed by user X"
How many properties are owned by actual airbnb employees?
Also, wouldn't this basically result in some sort of price fixing at least among the properties under a single owner/manager?
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#6This is not a problem. In my experience, professional landlords & managers offer clean, updated apartments that are a joy to check into and are a way better place to stay than hotels. I love using Airbnb for specifically this reason. It seems like in Europe, professional short-term apartment rental is a common thing anyway -- Airbnb just serves as a centralized listing platform. This is less common in the US.
I agree that I don't really see what the problem is. Curious that AirBnB would deny it though. Does it hurt their brand?
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#7This is not a problem. In my experience, professional landlords & managers offer clean, updated apartments that are a joy to check into and are a way better place to stay than hotels. I love using Airbnb for specifically this reason. It seems like in Europe, professional short-term apartment rental is a common thing anyway -- Airbnb just serves as a centralized listing platform. This is less common in the US.
Isn’t that what a family owned hotel/inn is?
Re: Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
#8Is this surprising at all? Most "sharing" apps are now overrun by professionals in their field. The apps help the professional (or company) achieve zero cost customer acquisition cost. In case the apps do catch up, these guys end up being "promoted" because they are a good fit. The pros make for much better "sales target" for these sharing apps.
It's not zero cost it's fixed cost as they pay airbnb for it. But that's still a good deal as customer acquisition is tricky.
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#9This is not a problem. In my experience, professional landlords & managers offer clean, updated apartments that are a joy to check into and are a way better place to stay than hotels. I love using Airbnb for specifically this reason. It seems like in Europe, professional short-term apartment rental is a common thing anyway -- Airbnb just serves as a centralized listing platform. This is less common in the US.
Isn’t that what a family owned hotel/inn is?
No, Airbnb typically lists actual, real everyday apartments, so you feel like you're living in the city like a local, not in a hotel. If you haven't tried it, it's a great feeling.
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#10Not only professional landlords but professional managers too. In LA I met with a woman who told me she manages 4 condo units in one complex and many others. Meets with people like me to give me keys, parking passes and checks on the unit when I leave. Second AirBnB, same thing but he manages houses instead of condos.
In an AirBnb we stayed at in Nashville, the house was built in the last 3 years solely to be purposed as an AirBnb unit (spacious and many social/convenient amenities)