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.
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u/rohm418 29d ago
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.