Having any short-term renter increases risk versus a long-term renter versus an owner. That's just the nature of the industry.
My point is that as a tenant in a building with an AirBnB host, I have absolutely zero guarantees about what kind of tenants AirBnB hosts take on. Maybe some need the money and are willing to take on people with no reputation scores? I'm willing to trust my building management to take responsibility for screening tenants because if they fail I can sue them and I know they can pay because they are insured.
That's the point you keep dancing around. AirBnB's reputation system might be great. That's irrelevant to me as a tenant in the same building. I don't get to see or have any control over the reputations scores of the people AirBnB hosts in my building take on. The AirBnB host exposes me to a level of risk, he is in total control over that level of risk, and he doesn't carry insurance against that risk. That is a harm to me.
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Having any short-term renter increases risk versus a long-term renter versus an owner. That's just the nature of the industry.
My point is that as a tenant in a building with an AirBnB host, I have absolutely zero guarantees about what kind of tenants AirBnB hosts take on. Maybe some need the money and are willing to take on people with no reputation scores? I'm willing to trust my building management to take responsibility for screening tenants because if they fail I can sue them and I know they can pay because they are insured.
That's the point you keep dancing around. AirBnB's reputation system might be great. That's irrelevant to me as a tenant in the same building. I don't get to see or have any control over the reputations scores of the people AirBnB hosts in my building take on. The AirBnB host exposes me to a level of risk, he is in total control over that level of risk, and he doesn't carry insurance against that risk. That is a harm to me.