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Am I missing something? I fail to see how an assault within a rented AirBnB would be a claim against the owner, unless they had been negligent in some way allowing the attacker to gain entry.
The last big case involved an airbnb where the shared key to the apartment was basically known by the attacker.
Theoretical insurance doesn't help you when Airbnb will simply ignore you or close your claim without explanation. They have become completely predatory and incompetent towards hosts in the past few years. As soon as something goes wrong they will find a reason to deny your claim. Their support that handles these cases is clearly incentivized to close cases without payouts. The only way anyone sees any coverage from…
"While AirCover protects you while you’re hosting an Airbnb stay or Experience, it is not a substitute for personal insurance" This is a key point. As a host here in NZ, its basically useless as I still have to have commercial insurance. Aircover only covers you for the period of time that you have someone staying in your property. As soon as they have gone, you have no insurance. So if you have a house listed on Air…
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If you check the airbnb hosts subreddit, there are endless stories of hosts being ghosted by support after a guest trashed the place.
Except, of course, when it blew up either on social media or in the press. Then suddenly "they made it right" and some spokesdrone trumpeted some bullshit like "In this exceptional case we didn't live up to our members / hosts high expectations". With rare exceptions I also don't see any more advantage compared to staying in a hotel. But to each his own, I suppose.
Therefore most of the time a hotel room is not the right thing for us.
The hassle of worrying about your personal belongings is just not worth it IMO. I want to buy nice nice furniture for my place and not worry about strangers ruining it.
Although I do want friends & family to be able to enjoy it. Maybe a site like Path was to Facebook?
I put way too much faith in Airbnb's "million dollar coverage" when I was a host. I had an Airbnb guest steal all the electronics from my apartment -- Sonos speakers, wifi router, everything. They also left behind a large stack of obviously stolen credit cards, social security cards, and driver licenses. When I called up Airbnb support to tell them what happened they responded by saying "We've found that most dispute…
Does this do anything to address the rapes and sexual assaults that occur inside of an Airbnb? I remember those being swept under the rug with NDAs to receive compensation.
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> They have become completely predatory and incompetent towards hosts in the past few years. I'm discovering that, having just become an Airbnb host in the last year for my beach pad. My new worst experience is Airbnb doing nothing and saying "too bad" when a guest with a new profile stayed for 3 days, then wrote a scathing review warning people off and demanding a refund. The guest posted in her review that the plac…
I think you're making too big of a deal out of this. You can reply to her comment telling your story. One bad review shouldn't impact you in the long term. I understand why Airbnb is not willing to help you here. They have millions of hosts and need to prioritize their time and efforts towards major issues.
This is the same lame justification for any big corporation, they have millions hosts but also millions of money coming from them.
Any business should be able to support properly their customers, particularly in the case of middle-men, such as AirBnb and similar, part of their business consists in having BOTH hosts and guests "at least moderately" happy.
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Vandalism is a criminal offense, and >$400 damage is a felony here in California.
Luckily you can steal more than twice that at your local Best Buy in California and it's a misdemeanor. So take good care of your AirBnB but feel free to go to town at a Walgreen's. If you can find one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47