How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb

Post by travisoneill1 » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:49 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #22

rand84545 wrote: post #14

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There are two possibilties here: - The noise level is within the reasonable legal limit: Tourists are exercising their rights to use the condo, in the same way that the owner (main renter) could have done. Whether it's the owner making the noise or the tourists is immaterial. - The noise levels are above the legal limits, inform them (courtesy) and then call the cops. whether it's the owner, or the tourists it's the…

"I have a right to do everything that's not actually illegal" is an attitude that directly results in all kinds of trivial things being banned. In this case, it's leading to cities trying to ban or restrict AirBNB.

Post by Cthulhu_ » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:50 AM UTC

lnsru wrote: post #13

dsl wrote: post #2

If you are concerned about cameras in Airbnbs, consider picking up a camera detector off Amazon for ~$30. They are basically a ring of super bright LEDs with a colored lens in the middle you put up to your eye and scan around the room. The light reflects off the curved glass of the lens and the filter helps you see it. The less effective but impromptu version of this is just holding a super bright flashlight between…

Could this be improved creating an app for smartphones? They have light source and camera with zoom, so suspicious reflections can be identified for manual inspection later. Probably integrated WiFi scanner also doable. Is there market for this?

Post by tapland » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:52 AM UTC

HelloNurse wrote: post #21

tapland wrote: post #16

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A lot of people on my floor did that when I lived in a 6000 sek/month 1 room flat outside Stockholm that required me to be an active student and still required 5 years of being in the queue for apartments which you can't sign up for until age 18. It was impossible to study most days because of kids to illicit renters running around screaming and biking in the corridors.

Couldn't you ring the bell of suspect apartments, verify the presence of illicit renters and call the police? Aren't there fines or worse for the owner?

Post by CaptainMarvel » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:52 AM UTC

JacKTrocinskI wrote: post #40

rand84545 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two possibilties here: - The noise level is within the reasonable legal limit: Tourists are exercising their rights to use the condo, in the same way that the owner (main renter) could have done. Whether it's the owner making the noise or the tourists is immaterial. - The noise levels are above the legal limits, inform them (courtesy) and then call the cops. whether it's the owner, or the tourists it's the…

If I call the police the owners of the condo do not suffer any repercussions, the tourists making the noise might get fined and maybe they learn a lesson maybe not, either way a new batch of tourists arrives a few days later and I have to go through the same ordeal. If the owners were the ones making the noise I could call the cops on them, they would get fined repeatedly and after sometime a judge might get fed up a…

Post by HelloNurse » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:58 AM UTC

tapland wrote: post #45

HelloNurse wrote: post #21

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Couldn't you ring the bell of suspect apartments, verify the presence of illicit renters and call the police? Aren't there fines or worse for the owner?

No go for the police. Owner has disturbance staff but evicting people takes ages and they seemed to not work very hard on that, still getting that rent income so it's no difference to them.