It's funny there's a spate of complaints about how fees have crept up to the point that AirBnB is not longer a deal, all the municipalities that have ruled against allowing them to operate outside hotel regulations and yet they also announced a massive increase in revenue in profits.
I personally don't get this business at all. Staying in a stranger's house is even more disconcerting that renting out a house to strangers. I'm mind-boggled at home much business they get.
It's not for me either. I have rented whole units, out of need(cost), but wouldn't want a room in a house.
Still, some people love this sort of random interaction. Hostels are popular in some crowds. And I remember, when biking across Canada, a random couple in their 60s stopped me, in Northern Ontario(very rural!) and asked me if I wanted to stay the night.
Part of me wondered if their very nice roast and potatoes, would be my last meal.
But they just were bored, and wanted to talk, and were just nice folks not afraid of strangers. Good people.
So some like it random. Enjoy divergent personalities.
The business is exactly that. Ilegal hotels. Most airbnbs are flats/houses specifically for that. It allows individuals to be part of rental network without the pains of doing it proper.
I think their biggest issue now is that the renters got more greedy and airbnbs start to cost more than hotels. Which atleast around me didnt use to be the case.
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It's funny there's a spate of complaints about how fees have crept up to the point that AirBnB is not longer a deal, all the municipalities that have ruled against allowing them to operate outside hotel regulations and yet they also announced a massive increase in revenue in profits.
I personally don't get this business at all. Staying in a stranger's house is even more disconcerting that renting out a house to strangers. I'm mind-boggled at home much business they get.
It's not for me either. I have rented whole units, out of need(cost), but wouldn't want a room in a house.
Still, some people love this sort of random interaction. Hostels are popular in some crowds. And I remember, when biking across Canada, a random couple in their 60s stopped me, in Northern Ontario(very rural!) and asked me if I wanted to stay the night.
Part of me wondered if their very nice roast and potatoes, would be my last meal.
But they just were bored, and wanted to talk, and were just nice folks not afraid of strangers. Good people.
So some like it random. Enjoy divergent personalities.
The business is exactly that. Ilegal hotels. Most airbnbs are flats/houses specifically for that. It allows individuals to be part of rental network without the pains of doing it proper.
I think their biggest issue now is that the renters got more greedy and airbnbs start to cost more than hotels. Which atleast around me didnt use to be the case.