u/iluvvivapuffs

I know this is not news to any of us. The host-guests.

The person cancelled a reservation within a few hours, instead of calling Airbnb customer support (we explicitly instructed them to call customer support), they are requesting funds from us.

Plus, hosts know we don’t see the money until a day after checkin. Now it becomes our problem to decline the fund request and call customer support to get their refund for them.

If this were a guest, we understand they don’t know how it all works. But a host-guest? Seriously?

What an ass

A small rant.

All I needed was to pop in an apple strore and replace my cracked iPhone today. They make you wait like it’s a Chanel. Come on. It’s only $1000, let me get the phone and leave

Fellow hosts, any of you looked at ratings on hotels on Airbnb?

They are unanimously pretty low. 4.6, 4.33 etc

Guests complain about Airbnbs (hosts like us) and share horror stories, but they give hotels low ratings? What? I’m confused

What are your thoughts?

We noticed many new Airbnbs spawn in our area, and we can only speculate it’s due to fifa.

Nightly rate and occupancy rate tanked (eg a one bedroom apartment is now rented at $80/night).

These people are losing money for sure. SMH people have no business sense and ruining it for everyone else.

Rant over. And to the guests who are reading this, you’re welcome lol

Conflict of interest if it is the true.

Anyone using third party identify verification services? Airbnb doesn’t allow hosts to collect government issued IDs, so I thought we should at least be able to know if the guest is who they say they are. Love to hear your experience

(We recently had an incident that made me highly doubt Airbnb does any guest verifications. And it is a host safety issue)

Folks, Airbnb just forced us hosts to pay sales tax on the service fee Airbnb is collecting from us. Not cool.

Look at individual booking payouts, why are we paying Airbnb’s taxes?

Needless to say, it was nuts in the last 30 min (I’m not complaining). Was it just bunch put options closing their positions? Some sort of squeeze? What was that? News?