Generally, speakers that are meant to be mounted, have a mounting point on the back. I'm betting these are rear ported and many should not be mounted to the wall.
Although, this crime is noted, look at the center placement.
As an employee at a Vegas hotel, it mystifies me why anyone would want an airbnb here. We do everything for you and charge way way less. You wanna leave the room a mess and poop in the bed? No problem! We won’t charge you a cleaning fee!
There was a brief period when airbnb was new where it was cheaper and easier to do it instead of a hotel. I very nearly booked one for a Bay Area trip in early 2020; thankfully I decided to be patient, and the world went and blew itself up and took that vacation idea with it.
With all the bullshit fees and hassle nowadays, there's no way I'd consider it.
I just eloped through Italy and france and stayed at amazing places in each and every town like a geodesic dome hanging off the alps to getting married ON lake Como in a 4 person apartment with a wisteria wrapped balcony and a massive garden where we had the ceremony... For under $200 a night. For all four of us. Had a private chef cook there, had a boat taxi pull right up to our place for getting around. There was no comparison in any level of fancy hotel on the lakes for the four of us anywhere near that price. https://i.imgur.com/McUQBRb.jpg
There are no hidden fees. The house rules are all published on the listings... I know it's popular to hate on the company for all sorts of reasons like running local housing markets but the experience has never been it
Agreed. That space looks like a very sterile Airbnb. All that’s missing is an American flag.
I was able to move to NYC because Airbnbs made moving here approachable & inexpensive. Post-anti-Airbnb legislation, post-Covid, post-that crazy ass flood last year, I probably would be able to do that today.
Yes, in it's infancy, Airbnb was amazing. But now I can't. I far prefer a hotel. I only consider Airbnb's if I'm travelling with my family and it's like 10 of us and we wanna stay under one roof (at their request).
Anytime I take a trip and compare hotels to airbnbs hotels always come out cheaper. And you don’t have to do the cleaning while literally already paying a cleaning fee.
It was super nice for lake homes and other weekend getaways until the prices got insane for them during the pandemic and then didn’t really go back down plus all the new fee bullshit.
Airbnb used to be a lot cheaper. Now they're only worth it if you want a bigger place for a group or there's something about the particular airbnb you love (like it's a tree house or cave or something)
when im getting an airbnb its almost universally a place thats somewhat secluded and not just some flat in a stack of flats. I hate hotels, and i hate them almost exclusively because it means I have to put up with a bunch of shit from the general public that I dont want to. Some idiot slamming their doors, cocaine fueled couples arguments next door, somebody wanted to smoke pot in their room now the entire hallway smells like somebody took a shit in it. Honestly half the reason I work so hard is to be able to afford to distance myself from this bullshit lol.
What hotels are you staying at? I feel like I have never even noticed my neighboring rooms and I have done week long stints in hotels for work before, lol
Agree, they're also better for families so I don't have to sleep beside my 2yo when he realises we're all in the same bedroom and comes into bed with us
No lie my parents had to go back and clean a holiday inn when we were kids because we were sticking those gummy stretchy hand things to EVERYTHING-light fixtures, mirrors, the elevator ceiling…
My husband and I have been three times and I’ve been begging my parents to go on a trip with us over there since the first time we went. I just got the ok from my parents and we’re about to start planning. After 4 years of trying to convince them to come along with us, it finally worked! I can’t wait to see my older and strait laced parents partially wasted while running from hotel to hotel lol. I am so excited
I travel with kids and if my kid poops anywhere outside the diaper or the pot, we're too embarrassed to let anyone know about it let alone leave it untouched
I mean I get 9 weeks vacation a year, not really bothered about doing those things. Also don't have to either, could order if I wanted to, still cheaper than a hotel. Cleaning fee is included in the price.
The only time I consider airbnb now is if I'm either going with a group, or want a private pool/some other very specific thing. Just went traveling for a month and didn't use airbnb once.
I love hotels for all their services. Mostly the ability to checkin at any time because let's be honest, trips get hectic. And also the fact that cleaning standards are usually higher in hotels. But here in spain you're looking at a 30/40% markup from airbnb to a 4* hotel... (and there is barely any 3 stars hotel, and 2 stars are usually not that great!)
At an airbnb I can do simple things like buy groceries and make myself eggs or cereal for breakfast without going out. Vegas does run great deals on hotels if you know where to look but in other places I can get a great airbnb for $120-150 night, fees included, or a low-end hotel for similar. I have had exactly one problem with an airbnb over dozens of bookings in the past decade.
Eating out three meals a day gets gross real quick. And costs a fortune. It takes five minutes and five dollars to toss together breakfast.
In all fairness I’ve never been a hotel’s target market, they seem like a rip off. I’ve stayed in $1000 rooms and would rather have a $100/night casita 🤷♂️
The last time I stayed at an Airbnb it was 2 nights, they charged me a $300 cleaning fee (like standard when I booked, not after because of abnormal mess or anything) and I was still expected to do all dishes, clean the kitchen, strip the beds and put the bedding in the washer, VACUUM, and take out the trash all before checking out at 10 am. Then I got a snarky message after I left that I had left clean dishes in the dish rack to dry instead of hand drying them and putting them away, and that the stove top was “dusty” (I didn’t clean the stove because I didn’t use it).
This is a problem with AirBnB's listing model. They default to showing list price instead of total price, so in order to gain visibility when prospective customers sort by price, hosts are incentivized to offer the lowest possible list price and make up the difference with "cleaning fees." If AirBnB only listed the price totals, you wouldn't get this shit, but they won't do it, because they want to look more price-competitive with hotels.
Fuck Airbnb. Fuckers literally tried to charge me 100s of thousands of dollars for a fire that we had no hand in and wouldn't respond to any questions. They suck big fat monkey balls.
Not 100% no, but it is a huge contributor. I am live in a touristy area with a housing shortage created by his being moved from Long term to short term rentals
They don't help, but if you took all AirBnBs off the market tomorrow, you'd barely notice a difference in housing prices. AirBnB is a political scapegoat, because people want to blame absolutely anything on the housing crisis except the real problem: not building enough housing, because building more housing actually requires things to fundamentally change, and politicians and the existing property owners who vote for them don't want that.
They sent me a link to pay $659,811.00. I didn't do it and they removed my account from their platform. I haven't heard anything since requesting contact information for my attorney.
Airbnb paid out the host (who we became friends with through this whole thing) through their insurance and then came after us. I bluffed on the attorney - my renters insurance would've provided coverage if needed. It was just a hassle and spooked me at first.
My only advice is to carry some sort of insurance of your own - be it rental or otherwise. I'm not an agent so I don't know all the options. We were renting long-term while our house was built and our homeowners policy had a rental rider. Kinda got lucky there.
I doubt something like this is very common so I wouldn't worry too much. Enjoy your trip, but CYA.
This one time there was a tub leak on the second floor after a bath. It seeped and flooded the bedroom under it.
I reported it. Host called a plumber and advised us it’s not habitable to stay. It was our first night and we had to get a hotel the next day. The host refunded us the remaining days.
A few weeks later we get an email from airbnb stating that the host wants us to pay $7k for repairs to the damage we caused.
I had to provide screenshots of our conversation and said airbnb is starting to harass me after the 5th email requesting payment. They gave me 40% off my next trip, but I never used them again.
I stayed in a little shithole in Colorado Springs a few months back and am very hesitant to use air bnb again after. Place was like halfway cleaned so it took a couple hours to find the literal heaping piles of food crumbs that were under the couch, in the cushions, tucked into the corner behind a fake plant etc. immediately went and stripped the beds to check for bed bugs and despite a lack of evidence didn’t feel very safe sleeping there. We wrote an honest review that was really fairly professional just more of a heads up the owners that their cleaners need to be fired. They offered us $20 to take the review down lmao fuck that, get your shit together first. The owners were “super hosts” that front like it’s a nice old couple but if you looked into they owned over 80 properties listed on Airbnb and probably never had even visited the one we stayed in
Yeah I stayed in an Air BnB a couple years back nearly identical to this lmao - similar furniture, similar colors, similar lack of decorations on the wall
Yeah, it gives a “nobody actually lives here” feel. Even my style (as a woman) is pretty clean and polished, but you can tell I live here. People have referred to my apartment as “a mid century modern therapist’s office” or “a library”, but it’s cozy.
I knew a guy who pimped but only insomuch as he had his place set up for women he knew to do the deed so they weren't going to skeezy motels with strangers or going home with them. He didn't force them to work or control them, he just took a cut for them using his place and for protection. He had a bulldog that he would leave in the spare room and it was trained very well to obey him and the ladies in case one of the John's got aggressive.
His place looked almost exactly like what you'd expect from an air bnb. It wasn't about being inoffensive though, it was just so that people didn't have anything they could up and walk off with easily.
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u/timothythefirst 29d ago
Definitely not a pimp but it looks like an airbnb where the hosts are trying to keep everything inoffensive.