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Why would or should you have a say in what the property owner next door does? What does having a say look like?
Would you oppose a smelly wastewater treatment plant being built on the previously residential property right next to you? That's why they should get a say.
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Why would or should you have a say in what the property owner next door does? What does having a say look like?
Why should you have the unchecked right to disturb the peace of your next door neighbor?
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The latest scam is having to pay either a $1500 deposit, or $59 "deposit insurance", which I assume the host gets some kickback on. I know I'm not going to trash the place. But I also don't like just putting $1500 out there either. A deposit that high only exists so someone can make money off the deposit insurance.
They, speaking of the hosts, do not make anythong from deposits, I am working in finance, rest assured the reason is a different, much more nefarious one. They want to charge you for potential damages, done by you or not, as well as wear and tear. Never, ever put a deposit for them, not even by credit card. And if you pay for the stay, always , always use a credit card, not a debit card. That way, you can pull the ch…
You can chargeback with a debit card, I’ve done it a few times myself.
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> To be fair, gamifcation of reviews is a very real problem. I wonder if "tipping" could improve things. A new platform like airbnb could have an expected tip built in to the platform. Hosts are expected to provide good service and get a tip. Customers are encouraged to tip at the end of their stay (with a lower base price than airbnb to account for that). Hosts can see the average, median, max, and min tips of poten…
Oh god please no more tipping. It's spreading like a virus. Each time I visit the USA there's more pestering for tips from every possible angle. Just pay people a fair wage already.
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> To be fair, gamifcation of reviews is a very real problem. I wonder if "tipping" could improve things. A new platform like airbnb could have an expected tip built in to the platform. Hosts are expected to provide good service and get a tip. Customers are encouraged to tip at the end of their stay (with a lower base price than airbnb to account for that). Hosts can see the average, median, max, and min tips of poten…
Personally I hate tipping. Long term it just makes everyone frustrated. Socially, it used to be 10% now the bare minimum is 15% if give 18% people then people start becoming happy. Now I'm forced to expect my price to be 15-20% more expensive than the list...
If the industry moves to service included, then the prices will still be 15-20% higher, or more, than they are today. You will have removed the incentive for those that want to provide better service however.
Multiples of 5% calculations is pretty simple and keeps the brain sharp. It’d also be easy to show the price with tips, but dark patterns.
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Well, they're ruined because of zoning (and tax law but that's a whole other story) In theory zoning is supposed be in residents interest to stop things like fracking from happening next to playgrounds (it doesn't but again that's another story). Cities follow zoning law to the letter when it comes to new apartments. Airbnb repurposes residential zoned property as commerical hotels. If we're going to take zoning seri…
AirBnB sux but zoning has arguably been a net negative on most societies in many ways https://youtu.be/bnKIVX968PQ https://youtu.be/CCOdQsZa15o for me what I noticed lately is that in California it's impossible to have a quiet modern apartment because nearly 100% of modern apartment buildings are only allowed to be built on busy noisy high traffic streets. If you want a quiet street you're forced to buy/rent a house
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I don't think AirBNB is blameless, but so much of this could be avoided by simply building more homes to allow supply to meet demand. US cities have not been building enough homes for decades--this is the main driver of home values going up because scarcity drives prices up. The fact that the President, Congress, and most governors never really address this means it's not going to be solved any time soon. Even in Cal…
Building more homes requires infrastructure to support those homes. The real solution is to tax each additional dwelling ~30,000$ (depending on area) to pay for the infrastructure to support it and then actually build that infrastructure.
I had booked an airbnb in Shanghai. On reaching the destination the host said we had to get police verification. She took us to the police station where the police said we cannot stay with her as she doesn't have the required permits. We were in a country where we didn't know the language and airbnb declined to help us as they didn't have any people on ground or provide alternate accommodation. We got the refund but…
While it sucks AirBnB didn’t do anything to help you, I think anyone who goes to a foreign language, third-world country has a responsibility to research relevant laws and have some kind of backup plan when something like this happens. Tip for the future: buy a good guidebook (or several). They have listings of hotels with price estimates, whether BnB is a good idea or not, and what the legal requirements are how to…
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Personally I hate tipping. Long term it just makes everyone frustrated. Socially, it used to be 10% now the bare minimum is 15% if give 18% people then people start becoming happy. Now I'm forced to expect my price to be 15-20% more expensive than the list...
> Now I'm forced to expect my price to be 15-20% more expensive than the list... If the industry moves to service included, then the prices will still be 15-20% higher, or more, than they are today. You will have removed the incentive for those that want to provide better service however. Multiples of 5% calculations is pretty simple and keeps the brain sharp. It’d also be easy to show the price with tips, but dark p…
The incentive to provide better service for individual employees should be provided by their employer.
The incentive for the employer to provide better service to customers is competition with other service providers the client might choose.
Which is how it works in all the jobs that aren’t within the weird and arbitrary bounds of tipping culture.
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You won't find one. The most cited article I've found shows that the most significant effect Airbnb has on rentals is a 0.5% rise in rental rates in Manhattan. It's not 0, but it's pretty damn close.
Yet my comment gets downvoted to oblivion because it questions the conclusion that everybody has jumped to
This is an interesting read about the market effects Airbnb has caused. They’re definitely moving prices and removing units from the market.