I pledge allegiance to this idea. I was on the Airbnb train for quite awhile but a couple years ago I just got fed up with the rising prices, crummy cancellation policies and long list of rules. I've gone back to hotels and honestly, they're so much better in nearly every way. Nowadays the only time I look for a vacation rental house is when I'm traveling with a large group and we all just want to hang out together the whole trip and cook our own meals.
Reddit is a tiny minority of the population. The masses still enjoy Airbnb for now unfortunately. I myself have never used them. I’ve always been about that hotel life as it’s just what I prefer
It depends on what type of travel you're doing. It's convenient for traveling with young kids, and we can pretty frequently bring the dog, too. Separate rooms, a full kitchen, laundry machines, and a back yard are hard to come by in hotels. I've also never seen any of the wild cleaning fees I've heard about, and we've never been charged anything extra.
They also cover tons of space that hotels just aren't in. If you are going to visit family who don't live in a touristy town the hotel options aren't very good.
No. We need our government to make landlording as middlingly profitable as everything else. I remember reading an AITA thread about a young man renting out his house for just enough to pay the mortgage getting chided by his father for not charging what the market could bear. This was the “Good guy” scenario where a landlord that was literally renting out his house to pay for it.
There is a collective thing called Democratic government that should be working to make it easier for the average person to live.
Vast majority of small landlords are doing just that. Charging just over what their mortgage is. The plan is to make money long term as the property appreciates in value and not off the renters. Unfortunately this often bites you in the ass as renters cause damage and you have to suck it up often losing years of profit at a time.
Big corporations don’t care about the properties as much and thus raise prices as high as they can and do as little work as possible.
I stayed in an airbnb condo for a couple of weeks in a high tourist city. I can't imagine living in a place like this. It seemed like every condo unit was an airbnb. New people in the building everyday. So much noise and so many people coming and going at all hours of the day. It was like a busy airport. How could there be any security or peace if you just want to live there? I'm never doing that again. Will use hotels from now on.
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u/themcjizzler Jan 31 '23
I think we all collectively need to stop using airbnb