• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Calling AirBnB “a hotel chain” is an insult to hotels.

    Hotels don’t require you to clean somebody else’s house while you are on vacation like a maid, and then charging you a cleaning fee for missing a spot. There isn’t even much of a price difference nowadays, so staying at a hotel wins every time.

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      2 years ago

      I have two younger kids. We can very close to renting a hotel on our last in-state vacation. It would have actually been somewhat cheaper. The reason we still went for the AirBnB was because our kids are asleep by like 7:30 and we didn’t want to be ‘trapped’ in the hotel room and didn’t want to rent a second. AirBnB made it significantly easier to find a house to rent.

      That said, the number of AirBnBs in that area of the state has really grown. I can’t imagine that’s doing the people who live there any favors.

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        2 years ago

        It is really terrible for the housing market when real estate investors buy out homes on the market for the sole purpose of renting them out in AirBnBs.

        I doubt that anyone would want to live next to an AirBnB house.

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          2 years ago

          “They make for shit neighbours” not the worst of it. It also significantly contributes to the increase in cost of living in the area because buyers and renters no longer have to compete with just each other but also with investors, and every house or flat that’s off the market only increases that competition further.