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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
You're not alone. Airbnb is borderline garbage now. Fees are out of control, low quality listings that half the time turn out to be fraud or misrepresentation and like you said, the hosts have these insane lists of chores.
The worst part is if you ignore the chores, the host can complain to airbnb and you could face additional charges for extra cleaning. And airbnb has a tendency to take the side of the hosts.
In the same vein as netflix, uber and amazon. These online behemoths that come in and disrupt an industry then very quickly become everything we hated about the old system. But now they've put all their competitors out of business so we have no more choices.
Thankfully hotels stuck around and still give travellers options.
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It's funny, this morning a friend proposed renting a 6 bedroom airBnB for a group of about 8 of us. I joked that is would be actually be a 3 bedroom with 2 sofas and a closet.
They send me the link to the listing, sure enough 3 bedrooms with double beds, one room you can only descibe as barely bigger then a den with a bunk bed in it, and sure enough 2 pull out couches.
AirBnB sucks.