Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues • Hacker News Board

Re: Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

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Post by monkeynotes » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

mywacaday wrote: post #174

monkeynotes wrote: post #62

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I have somewhat of a 'not in my backyard' opinion of Airbnb. I have admittedly used the service multiple times, but since I moved into a new house I've changed my view on the business model. Our neighbour Airbnbs multiple rooms in his house full time. He barely has parking for 3 cars, 2 cars if you don't want to be boxed in. However he rents out room for 6 people. He constantly has business moving through his house,…

Have a chat with the owner and failing that see if you can setup a clamping company and do a deal with one to clamp anybody that encroaches on your property. May as well make some money from it.

Already spoken to him. He has converted an out building into another dwelling and promised he would not add more guests. He deceived us by saying he wouldn't, and then moved into his outbuilding and freed up space in the house. Up to 10 guests can now stay at his house.

Re: Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

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Post by _y5hn » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

monkeynotes wrote: post #190

_y5hn wrote: post #147

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What needs to happen is to realize this before your neighbour started his Airbnb business.

And how exactly do you do that when an existing neighbour can start his business after the fact?

By putting oneself in other people's shoes.

Re: Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

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Post by billpg » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

bradly wrote: post #158

3pt14159 wrote: post #126

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Oh please. That's a complete excuse. One is more than capable of rending out the room then keeping price/1.14 for themselves. These fine print notes for taxes were such malarky.

That’s a pretty harsh response given that we went through lots of work to inform our Airbnb guests about the tax and provide local municipalities their hotel tax. It’s hurtful to here that called an excuse. Do you have rentals? Are you familiar with what the hotel tax can and cannot be applied to? We’ve been asking Airbnb for to natively support hotel tax in HI for years. Vrbo supported hotel tax from the beginning.…

Are you saying that the law requires you to advertise the minus-tax amount? You can't work out what the hotel tax would be and include it in the price?

I understand that showing prices without the sales tax is commonplace in the USA. I find that practice quite dodgy and "everyone does it" is a poor excuse.

Re: Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

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Post by billpg » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

treebornfrog wrote: post #3

I suspect that a lot of people jumped on the airbnb hype train and thought they could be a landlord of multiple properties and probably got leveraged. Now they're in trouble as their income dries up.

They can always sell their buildings, meh.

Re: Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues

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Post by thunkshift1 » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 6:52 PM UTC

They tried to follow in foot steps of uber eats which asked consumers to donate to restaurants earlier during the lockdown. Airbnb doing the same is definitely not okay, but why there wasnt a similar hue and cry for uber doing it.