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I’m genuinely interested to hear what are the specific harms you have suffered due to this.
A cabin across the street from me was an AirBnB rental: very loud parties all weekend, running long after midnight. Then COVID came, and now AirBnB has gone down the toilet, so the problem has not returned. Yet.
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Airbnb greatly contributed to the housing shortage in Vermont.
Is there some unbiased literature you can share that demonstrates this conclusively?
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I think there's a point to be made about single family dwellings, but it's hard to imagine how a 50 condo building would operate without one. Who takes care of the pool? Or fixes the elevator? The governance is definitely poorly structured, though. In my (limited) experience I've seen a board that gets elected and then proceeds to abuse their power to advance their own financial positions. I think there should be a 3…
My takeaway from dealing with a condo HOA is that condos shouldn't legally exist, because people owning fractional buildings is doomed to result in structural collapse. Elected residents aren't qualified to make decisions about long-term maintenance which becomes more severe and expensive over time, and they have perverse incentives to avoid spending money. Faced with a substantial enough cost, board members can opt…
I guess what you're arguing here is that groups of people shouldn't be able to own real property collectively, which would undermine a lot of the legal infrastructure that underpins business and society today; not just condos.
For example, what if one's parents die and probate leaves the family house to the adult children (who are obviously not married to each other), how would they take title?
My nextdoor neighbor sold their house last year and now it's an Airbnb. Despite the fact that I live in a house in a normal residential neighborhood, I'm now forced to live next to a hotel. And I have no say in the matter. Super frustrating. I've read people talking about how Airbnb screwed the host or the guest. But few people talk about how it screws the neighbors.
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This is why I went back to hotels. Airbnb is a scummy company and can’t seem to survive without out of control “gotcha” fees added by either itself or its hosts which now make many hotels cheaper. I also am not obligated to do work for the host with a hotel. Some of the hosts have become super entitled over the years due to Airbnbs policies. It’s a shame as using Airbnb was an excellent experience when it first began…
I’ve stayed in 100+ Airbnbs and literally never have paid or been asked to pay an extra fee. I have, however, been surprised several times by hotels charging an extra “resort fee” upon arrival.
Things are different on this side of earth, rest assured. I have paid extra every single time.
Further, there is always things like "parking available", but then either its not free of charge or always busy or its....public parkings.
Same with internet access. Available, if you pay and if its tourism months. And the internet you get comes from a router in the hallway and is shared and at times it seemed like it has the capacity for one concurrent user.
Airbnb enables hosts to publish such things in the name of revenue.
But if a host gets in trouble, they have a half arsed wannabe collection team which will drop them like a hot potato soon.
There are no reviews of truthfulness of the offers etc.
If you have had a good experience, then irs thanks to the host, not thanks to airbnb.
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My HOA is primarily a collective bargaining tool for trash pickup. Over 80% of the annual fee goes to trash service. The cost of the HOA is significantly less than even the most budget-minded trash service.
Do you know how such a minimal scope had been maintained? I'm envisioning either a pretty new HOA or maybe a structure that somehow forbids scope creep.
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Do you know how such a minimal scope had been maintained? I'm envisioning either a pretty new HOA or maybe a structure that somehow forbids scope creep.
Definitely not new- when I purchased the home, my attic had a box with HOA board member documents from the 1980s.
Heh... I recently made a Booking.com review that started with... "Reviews were stunning, the location was great, the price was reasonable". Then, I went on explaining that I landed in front of a closed door, the host was not reachable, Booking.com support was not helpful, so I just drove on through the night and over mountains until I reached home 11 hours later. After I made the review, Booking.com only kept the fir…
Booking.com gave us a refund after a 2 hour call and offered us $20. They removed our negative review because "you didn't stay at the property and were refunded".
I am strictly hotels only after the shenanigans from AirBnB and Booking.com.