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I clean air bnbs. fun fact! we do not get that $200 cleaning fee :) it goes to the host who most of the time never even visits the properties for months at a time. I get paid $16 an hour, clean for about 2-3 hours each property, resulting in a whopping $50 (roughly). not sure what the point of a cleaning fee is when its not even for the cleaner! and oh yeah the company is a failing one, currently looking for a new job :)

It's crazy that Omegle was sued over the users doing nefarious things on it but Airbnb isn't getting sued or reprimanded for their users doing nefarious things.

a friend of a friend’s dog died after an airbnb stay when they were exposed to open rat poison even though the property was listed as pet friendly. neither the host nor airbnb agreed to refund them. it was horrifying.

Strange how things economically balance out. Back when AirBnB was new, it was a great way to travel cheap and save money over expensive hotel stays. Well, right as AirBnB got more and more expensive, the big hotel chains generally started slashing their prices. Nowadays, it’s almost always cheaper to stay in a hotel. Also, I can’t even remember the last time an AirBnB gave me breakfast (at least 8 years ago). Isn’t that what their whole second “B” was supposed to be for???

the fact that the airbnb website doesn't even ask for proof of owning a property is insane 😭 what's stopping someone from putting up an address for a local Taco Bell? 😭😭😭

People keep saying “getting rid of Airbnb won’t make a dent in the housing market”. I live in a tourist town. More than half of the houses and apartments are used as airbnb. Because of that, myself and every young person are literally sharing bedrooms because there is nowhere else to live. If there were no airbnbs, we all could potentially have a place to live normally

Earthquake destroys multiple properties. New townhouses built to replace them, new modern and up to code. Immediately purchased and listed as short term rentals, with people proudly posting it on social media

the biggest problem with air bnb is selling the dream of owning and renting to people. people gobble up houses and take it away from those who would normally be able to afford them, but cant out compete people buying and renting at exorbitant rates

What really sucks about AirBnB is that it really started off like an online hostel type situation. It was a way to travel and experience the city like a local. I stayed at a really beautiful Victorian home with a super sweet host and it was really cool to see their personal recommendations and such. Now I can't even think about using the platform because it's been clearly taken over by landlords.

My dad’s girlfriend professionally cleans a lot of Air B&Bs and has found hidden cameras and other creepy stuff numerous times, but everytime she’s tried to get in contact with Air B&B to report the owner, they either make her go around and around about “proof” (even though she has pictures) or outright say she can’t input anything about it because she isn’t a renter. It’s insane. Air B&B is literally knowingly allowing these creepy owners to continue their thing.

I got full on scammed out of 3000$ when I needed emergency housing on airbnb. Found an affordable month rental and when I showed up it straight up didn’t exist and Airbnb said that was an issue between me and the renter, not them. Instead of being homeless with all my luggage in -30 Celsius snow covered Montreal, I shoved out my entire savings of 2000$ for a last minute shitty little month rental airbnb in a much less accessible (and trop Francais) part of the city. Now I just can’t afford to go on vacation so I don’t even look at airbnb.

I'd never stay in an air bnb. I would find it really odd to be in someone else's house. I'd feel really uncomfortable and like i was intruding on someone else's personal space, even if they weren't on the property. I'd rather have a hotel room and save myself the anxiety.

so fun story, when my wife and I were dating, the apartment that we were living in at the time got posted on airbnb. except not by us. the leasing office called us furious and told us that people were there to pick up the key to their airbnb from the front desk. we were obviously insanely confused and freaked out. we reported the psychos who put up the listing, it got removed, we thought it was taken care of. they put the listing back up 2 weeks later. they didn’t even get banned. it’s actually just the wild fkn west out there

I worked for an Airbnb host that charged a standard $45 cleaning fee for most of their units, with higher rates for their "premium" properties. They hired their own cleaners to justify this price, so you would think that most, if not all, of this money would go to staff. Right? Wrong. The bosses rushed us to finish the properties quickly rather than thoroughly, which led to several cleanliness complaints, overworked and underpaid staff, and the Airbnb host making a profit off of the cleaning fees as well as the rental rates. This is just the tip of the iceberg; I have many more horror stories about these hosts.

I’d also like to add a big reason people are having trouble building houses is it’s a lot of government bureaucracy. My parents are doing a self build in Canada. While waiting for the paperwork for each stage, inflation raises building prices. When they started building in 2020 they could afford to build, now it’s completely out of reach and myself and my partner are putting this house together to save my aging parents a heart attack. (we’re also in a housing crisis / my province has placed new rules for airbnbs)

I lived in a large apartment complex which was for retired people (62+). Most of the residents I met said they sold their homes because they could not afford to live there anymore (their former homes).

Tip: When you stay at an AirBnB (or even a hotel), turn the lights off in your rental when you get there so its dark and then open the camera app on your phone and select video. If there's a hidden camera, when its dark in the room the camera's IR or infrared light will come on and your phone's camera can detect the light which is invisible to the human eye. Smartphone cameras do not have an infrared night vision light but hidden or security cameras do. You'll see the infrared light in your phone's camera app since it comes on automatically in the dark but you wont when you look away from the phone’s screen and directly at or in the direction of any cameras

I startled SO BADLY when she yelled "FOLDING YOUR LAUNDRY." because I was indeed ... Folding my laundry. I swear I'm paying attention Gabi 😭

My first and last AirBnB experience was when I went to London was crazy. It was advertised as an entire apartment and we rented for 2 nights on a weekend trip. Turns out when we got there we were sleeping in the owners bedroom after she sent us to the wrong side of London because she gave us the wrong address on the listing and didn’t respect our time at all with us having to travel all the way there and nearly missing our west end show we went to see. I paid so much money for those tickets and the stay and we almost missed all of it completely. She advertised as having access to the kitchen and living room but she slept in the living room overnight while we stayed, NAKED, and we couldn’t use either room. We tried to buy food to prep meals while we were out to save money but because you had to go to the kitchen through the living room she wouldn’t let us and told us to just buy meals instead, couldn’t afford that. She trauma dumped on us hard the entire time and we were so excited to leave.

i went on holiday with my mother and we went to 2 different cities for it, renting out an airbnb both times. 1st one: a semi-detached house in a super pretty neighbourhood super close to the metro with a giant tv, perfectly working appliances and a bathtub. 2nd one: a tiny flat in a horrible neighbourhood with a "double bed" that could only fit 1 person comfortably, a broken fridge and a suspiciously brown stained bathmat. he entire place stank. we got the hell out and booked a hotel. the worst part: the hotel was cheaper than the 2nd airbnb in the end.

I live in a tourist town in Alaska. Housing prices were already crazy because of those two facts alone (Alaska, touristy), but in the past 5 or so years we've been infested with Airbnb's taking every single house, condo and apartment. Currently there are only 7 apartments for rent and 24 houses for sale, but 125 AIRBNBS AVAILABLE! GREAT! People who don't even live here will buy our properties, make them Airbnb's for tourists for mostly only the summer but keep it listed yearround, so that there's no housing left for actual residents. And the local economy is so dependent on tourism that any conplaints about the community literally decaying is immediately shut down because "we need tourism" (they refuse to find new ways to fuel local economy).

Airbnb is genuinely ruining mexico city for the locals, not only do we have gentrification and a housing crisis, we also get entitled turists or "digital nomads" mistreating employees who make minimum wage because "how dare you not know english don't you see I'm trying to order my overpriced fancy tacos you peasant". The places I enjoyed pre pandemic really suck because of this now.

I live in a turistic zone on spain and thanks to Airbnb the rent prices and housing prices skyroked. Back in the day a 2 bedroom aparment cost 400€ or 500€. Now the same aparment can go to 900 or 1000€ and the monthly salary goes to 1100 to 1200€. In some places (like Malaga) people go to the key boxes and hotglue them so they can't get the key.

I live in Orlando and work doing kids birthday parties. I just had to travel to a neighborhood I soon found out was entirely airbnbs. Every door had the same company mat on it, every house with a backyard pool had a rules signs like a community pool (no glass/running etc). A pristine playground surrounded by a locked gate, and NO street parking or else you’d get towed. It was the most unwelcoming place I’ve ever been and over half of them were sitting empty.

Stayed in an air bnb recently, the bed had bedbugs, I was COVERED in bites that precipitated a full body allergic reaction that sent me to the hospital. Owners never responded to the messages telling them their property was infested. Love it.

I have a service dog, and the Airbnb policy is that the hosts have to accommodate service dogs per ADA law. I have heard COUNTLESS stories from others in the service dog community of hosts cancelling last minute, illegally trying to charge extra, refusing to accommodate after booking and offering no refund, etcetera and the company does nothing to help the service dog handler. I also know of multiple instances where a host lied about the property, claiming it would be accessible to wheelchair users, etc and it absolutely not being accessible. And once again, no refunds or accountability from Airbnb.

10:26 RIP multitaskers who only use audio and had to get their phone and rewind to see what it was.

wow im sitting in st pete fl thinking about our shite situation this whole video (and laura's omnipresent signs), and to see the piece about my exact concerns towards the end of this video is just...so validating. Excellent video.

I went to one place where we were in an apartment. Neat place. But we looked around and saw other empty units with the curtains open that looked just like ours. We figured the entire complex was AirBnBs. That blew my mind and made me understand how it's negatively impacting the housing market. That's like 30 units that other ppl and families could've occupied.

Never used airbnb, no regrets. Also, this seems to be another case of rich people damaging economies/communities with no regard to the consequences.

I just found your channel and I’m on my second video of what will probably be a lengthy binge but I just want to say the effort and research you put in is so thorough and conversely easy to consume. I identify with your viewpoints and as a professional economist that regularly in my job and so I hope there’s some validity in me saying you’re doing a kick ass job as teaching others and incredibly insightful. Much love! Can’t wait to watch more vids 💕

It drives up property prices so normal folks can't afford to buy an apartment or a house even in a small town where property should be much more affordable compared to more populated urban areas.

i just stayed in an airbnb for the first time and the lady was so lovely, but a few days before we went to go her furnaces blew up. She helped us pay for another place last minute which she definitely didn’t need to do, but she wanted to make sure my family still got to celebrate thanks giving together. i feel very lucky to have had the experience i had especially after this video.

I live in Montréal, Canada and they started to think about making stricter rules around Airbnb only when a bunch of people died in a fire in a couple of illegal listing in a building.

In Antwerp (Belgium) it turned out several of the hosts (that had a lot of properties on offer) weren't real people, but members of criminal orginanisations and the properties were used for money laundering

Never once stayed in an AirBnb. People think I'm crazy for preferring hotels but I will pay more to guarantee a secure and sanitary environment.

AirBnB is just another example of a good idea that got ruined. People love talking about corporate greed, but corporations are led by people. These vacation rentals are also owned by people. Common denominator. I looked into an AirBNB for a recent week-long trip, and the cleaning rules/cleaning fees made it more expensive than a full-service hotel, and I didn’t have to clean a dang thing at the hotel. No-brainer.

I was actually at a virtual hearing calling for the enforcement of local law 18 in NY. Many of the people there were AirBNB owners claiming they were being persecuted by the government. One woman bought 26 room household she could no longer rent out and asked the committee members how she was going to pay for her house now. It amazes me how they can victimize themselves so easily

i can’t believe the cleaning fees… i stayed in an airbnb in toronto, canada and the cleaning fee was $15. $200 is actually insane and completely ridiculous

I'm glad I found your channel. Been binging your videos, they're so fun and informative :D

If an entire business model is talking about how scared they are for there being more laws around them, it SHOULD DEFINITELY have more laws

i work at a law office that does tons of real estate (NOT as a lawyer as an assistant) and it’s absolutely insane to me that you don’t have to, bare minimum, show that you hold title on a property (or have lessor rights) to list it on airbnb. absolute nightmare.

Air BNB has literally caused a housing crisis in my city, Edinburgh. All so greedy landlords can profit off the millions of people that visit. Meanwhile, there’s not enough homes to go around for everyone that lives, works and studies here.

I greatly appreciate you're source document! It made a great starting point for a paper I had to write on Airbnb, since I knew that you discussed topics I wanted to cover 😄

Trying living under an Airbnb. An absolute nightmare, a screaming baby showers, weekends are NON STOP parties, kids bouncing balls and jumping, suitcases dropped and rolled along the ground, light cigarettes thrown off the balcony onto yours, strangers buzzing your doorbell all night, bachelor parties. I had to check the Airbnb website to see if I’d be sleeping that weekend and going to work on a Monday…and my rent was astronomical in a tight housing crisis with little on the market.

It's so upsetting because staying at Airbnb's has created some of the best vacation experiences (houses on farms with animals, houses on lakes where you can kayak, and big houses in general where you can have 10+ people stay at once) & some of the hosts have been incredibly helpful & inviting (i.e. leaving free snacks). But the CLEANING FEE!!! It makes it incredibly hard to choose Airbnb over just staying in a stuffy hotel room. It's so odd to me that you can literally leave the place spotless besides unmaking the beds and still be charged upwards of $200 extra.

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My biggest gripe with Airbnb is the amount of us that ended up without a home because landlords make more money charging temporary rent to yuppies, and it drives rent up across the board.

I live on a small island and Airbnb has completely decimated the housing market here. It’s horrible because so many locals just can’t find long term housing anymore and are forced to live in Airbnbs during the off seasons and then live in tents, trailers or pushed off the island during spring and summer. So many people who don’t even live on island buy up properties and houses here just to profit off Airbnb and locals are left housing insecure.

I work as a maid and we work alottt with bnbs Everytime I clean a new one I can't help but look at what a nice house it could have been for a family or person and how I could never buy a home in this day of age

Second video I've watched of yours. Loving them so far 😊 keep up the great work.

Great video! The use of Sea of Stars music in the background worked very well

honestly hotels (i especially like local family owned ones) are awesome, you don’t get a list of chores when you check in and there’s a pool and buffet in a lot of them it’s very fun

over 50+ houses near the college in my town have been turned into Airbnbs for rich douchy alumni to park their cars at for 1,200 a day so they don't have to walk to far to watch the football games. They don't even stay half the time just want a place to park its so stupid and its causing rent and housing costs for all the available places to be absolutely strangling.

Airbnb is probably responsible for Australia's current rental crisis because if you can charge $300+ pn why rent the property for $450+ per week.

This video is awesome, your personality is awesome I'm glad I came back to your channel after a long time

I used airbnb when I first moved to NYC because I didn't want to stay on my friends' couch (I didn't want to be a burden). What was advertised to me was a private bedroom in a shared apartment. What I got was a pull-out couch bed in a room with other pull-out couch beds, no hot water, and - worst of all - roaches crawling on the walls over my couch bed! I had booked for two weeks. I only stayed one night before sucking it up and asking my friend for help. Airbnb never refunded me despite the photo proof I sent... This was seven years ago but I'm still mad abt it

I remember seeing a listing in the UK that had only optional heating. I queried this with the host only to be told 'well we do have heating but we ask guests to contribute to the cost because of the high energy costs right now' out of curiosity I asked how much it would be... They got back to me two days later 'well, we can sort that out at the end of your stay with us' I couldn't believe they were renting a place with optional heating in winter in the British countryside (I'm British so know that heating is essential in winter especially given my boyfriend is used to southern Italian temperatures) but then to have the audacity to not even be transparent about the cost of energy we were expected to cover. Needless to say we didn't book.

Idk how I just found your content but damn. You go in detail and do great work! Plus the fact you make music? Lol good shit homie 🙏 subbed ❤️

regarding illegal airbnbs: i used to work in property management in the downtown area of my city. we have a housing crisis so the government subsidized a lot of high rise apartments near public transit. even tho they were paid for by tax dollars and specifically built to help locals find homes, almost half got illegally bought up as airbnbs. we have laws limiting airbnbs, but it's not like there's an airbnb investigation department so basically unless a neighbor gets really nosy and has a lot of extra time on their hands, the airbnbs go unchecked. i didn't manage the apartments themselves, but one of the towers shared a ground floor and underground parking level with commercial space, and we did manage that. i cannot tell you how many thousands of dollars we spent replacing broken garage gates because someone rented out an airbnb but didn't give the guest a keyfob, and so the guest tried to rush in after an actual resident, damaging both their own car and often breaking our garage door. because this wasn't the apartment's part of the property, we would be on the hook to pay for it every time. our legal department would get photos and security footage and try to follow up to get reimbursed, but since these were vacationers sometimes from out of the country idk how successful they were. even if we were able to get completely reimbursed for the damage, it still wouldn't have covered the work hours wasted collecting evidence, contacting and dealing with various technicians, filing and fighting with insurance claims, etc. not to mention that while the doors were being fixed the actual residents in the apartments had a permanently open garage door, which isn't safe! on so many levels airbnbs (especially mass airbnbs) are just so selfish. a handful of rich people or corporations just decided they matter more than anyone else, and so they take and take and take from everyone around them any way they can, just to make some extra money. it's genuinely evil.

Also, I personally LIKE "cookie cutter" hotel rooms and having a general idea of what to expect when i book a room. I like not having to deals with not being 100% positive about where i'm sleeping in a city/state/country I've never been to. I like that I mostly don't have to worry about the staff at the hotel being creeps and crooks (and I have a target to sue if they do end up being shady). Most importantly, I love being able to check reviews outside the native app. Imagine if you could only get reviews for a Hilton on the Hilton's site, or you couldn't cross-reference info about that AirBnB on other sites like Google/TripAdvisor/Expedia, especially when you use these tools to check out every other aspect of your trip.

Danny Gonzales told a story on the sad boyz podcast (I believe) about how him and his wife had an Airbnb they had to cancel bc the host said that everytime they entered the place they needed to use a delivery code, that expired after one use, and everytime they wanted to get in again they needed to text her and get a NEW delivery code. She wasn’t allowed to give out the door code so this was her solution. Insane lol

Nothing will make you appreciate a run down hotel like an Airbnb does.

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I just got my first ever bad review this past weekend because I mentioned to the host I felt unsafe being watched from his ring camera in a private backyard. The host had a history of retailing against guests that complained about safety or cleanliness with bad reviews, and yet, he remains a host. Airbnb is the bad place!!!

We loved airbnb when it first came out. We did a cross country trip renting out rooms/places for 1 night at a time along the planned route (pre pandemic). This was when ut was real people renting out their spare rooms and the cleaning fees were little or nothing. Sadly it is nothing like that now and hotels are just cheaper and more convenient. The greed has killed the business model.

My mother cleans those air bnb towns/apartments. She says she gets like about $115 per apartment. She says it's not a bad pay rate since she claims that they aren't dirty most of the time and can get done in about 30 mins. Only time she charges these air bnb owners more is if they require a deep clean. ie cleaning stained carpets, cleaning dirty ovens, and picking up dirty dishes that were left lying around rooms from guests. Still, after seeing how empty and lifeless these air bnb apartments were, it made me feel anger and sadness. They could've deadass housed people here and instead these apartments are collecting dust until more guests decide to stay there.

I have been watching some of your videos and i absolutely loved your sense of humor.

The best airBnB I’ve ever sayed at was a really nice house that the host lived in, he had the whole second floor set up for guests, and cooked us breakfast in the morning. Just a really nice person who ran it more like a bed and breakfast.

I booked an Airbnb when I was in London for a week, the pictures looked fine given the area and price. It was a literal dorm room that some college kid had rented out 😭

I'm loving the longer vids and deep dives

Hey, I used to work with my mom at her cleaning service(it’s closed down now) and we would mostly clean air bnbs and oh my god. The dirt and grime was always awful, people would leave their “special juices” on sheets, one time someone literally left A GUN. A lot of the time when we’d get there stuff would be destroyed, holes in walls, toilet clogged, sheets stained, but in the small chance, things would be semi clean leaving us just have to do basics like clean sinks, put away dishes, etc. It was pretty fun sometimes cause people would leave stuff and just never come back to get them so we could just take. The best thing is when people would leave food and we’d get to take it(but only if it was unopened) The owners however SUCKED. They were a couple that had some kids(divorced now) and the wife always made it seem like me or my mom were flirting with her husband(I’m a minor, they were in like early 30’s I’d assume) and it would me super uncomfortable.

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I used to live in a building where 7 out of 20 apartments were listed as Airbnb. Living there was a nightmare. Constant noise and parties, random drunk people roaming halls, mess in a hallway. I can't count how many times someone tried to open my door by accident in a middle of the night. The last straw was when my landlord tried to raise a rent for an insane amount, so I moved out.

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Get job putting this together! This is a very informative piece. Thank you!

I used to work at a hotel in Southwest Florida and the amount of people who would show up at the hotel looking for a room or call the hotel looking for a room because their Airbnb was basically a lie..........is astonishing

Not only United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia, it also happens in countries such as Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Japan, what is happening with this same issue, Airbnb should improve its services and also throughout the world

Your videos are great! Makes me want to try making my own video essays. Also your room is adorable

these videos are so cathartic. thanks for making them

My city (New York) effectively kneecapped their business and I don't cry a single tear about it, particularly for what they did to rents and the culture and quality of life of our neighborhoods

I worked at customer support at Airbnb last year and I can confirm that everything in this video is right. About background checks - yes, there are none. For people on customer support, there are specific ways we must follow depending on the situation. For example, if you list somebody else's house, and the actual owner of the house calls airbnb claiming their house is on Airbnb but they didn't put it there, there is a specific team that deals with cases like that. I don't know what happens next because I was not in that team. If you rent an area that is actually a garden and nobody complains, everything will go fine until the guests reach the "house". Those people will have to call Airbnb support and Airbnb support will have to look for a similar place for them to stay in. After that, the person who looks for a similar place for the guests might or might not report in your profile (it can only be seen by airbnb workers tho) that you have a fake rented place. Some workers do report, most do not. After a specific number of reports, your account gets banned. But you can create a new one. (oh btw, I had people calling asking me if a host is actually renting a real house. That message to workers only appears after there are reports and Airbnb support workers cannot say those things even if they see the host is scamming people. And believe me, I saw many scams in a few months of work) Oh also it's good you didn't publish that fake listing you created but worry not if that had happened by accident. Listings take 72 hours to appear on the website. I had to say this on this phone so many times, that even a year later, I still remember it all. A person in the comments mentioned that a cleaning lady cannot denounce things on Airbnb and that's true. On Airbnb support, it's expected that the person who reports has an account on Airbnb and that they are reporting about a reservation they have - either as a host or as guest. The only exceptions in which a person without an Airbnb account can report is against guests - a "too much noise" report or a "too many guests" report (since covid). When doing any of these two reports, one must say they are a neighbour. The "too many guests" report is expected mostly if the host and the neighbour are close and the neighbour is aware of the number of people the reservation was supposed to have but they see a different number of people entering the house. Airbnb will ask you for your email if you do a report as a neighbour, btw. Airbnb does have a safety team, but idk what they do. Airbnb only verifies the houses in the Airbnb Pro program. An Airbnb Pro host and a superhost are not the same thing, btw. Superhost houses are not verified. Airbnb Pro is (or was at least at the time I was working there) a program in which Airbnb invites certain hosts to join. They really should verify all houses in the platform tho. Live chat support team isn't even a level 1 support team. All they can do is pass to level 1 support team (which is the team picking up the phones and the messages sent to support) and then if the situation is really complex, only level 1 support team can pass the case to the right team. So it feels like a ping pong to the customer. About cleaning, idk if that's still up right now. But last year there was a page on Help Center literally telling hosts to find a way of getting their listing clean without paying for it - it even said "get a friend do to the cleaning for no charge" and everytime I came across that page, I cringed so hard.

just found your channel, love the editing style :)

I loved this discussion! My family is planning a trip to fla this summer, and we’re investigating Airbnb’s for use during our travels. I’m conducting an independent research of my own, to learn more about this topic, and what I might expect, real time. This was quite thorough and informative. Thanks so much! 🎈🎈

This is wild to watch bc my parents rented out the room above our garage and my dad was sooooo into it like he got towel and sheet sets from home goods and collected hotel soaps to put in the bathroom and set up a nice little coffee/tea making station and then we just cleaned it ourselves lmao like my dad would give me $50 if I cleaned it for him

The apartment below mine was turned into an airbnb and while it's been okay mostly, some of the people staying there have been actually hellish. One time a group of 20-somethings stayed there while one of my country's biggest music festivals was going on in my city. They were playing music in the middle of the night and when I went to complain I was told to "chill" because this happens "only once a year". (It's not once a year, there's a lot of events in my city during summer) I had to call the cops on them when they later came to bang on my door. I happened to catch the host the next day and told her what happened, she was really dismissive about how scared I had been and just said to call the cops again if it happens again. Another time there was like three people staying there for like two weeks. Every night a woman would scream like she was getting murdered, and I had no idea what she was talking about because she was speaking in a foreign language. I could hear random words like "You're evil", a lot of "fuck"s, etc. I was half-convinced that the girl was possessed or something. This happened every single night for HOURS. I couldn't sleep because of it and I called cops on them 4 different times. I tried going through Airbnb and they were no help at all, only relaying my complaints to the host. Heard from other neighbours that the owner never answers their phone and it's hard to get in contact with them so... yeah...

Former banker here. I think the issue on airbnb is that it's not being used as intended. It was supposed to be a way for people to rent out properties that they own for some extra money. But what has happened is people are buying properties with only 5-20% down payment, and renting out their huge mortgages to other people. This is why they need to nickle and dime every customer. They need to make sure they dont lose money on their investment.

I couldn't stop watching. You make great vids!

I think it’s so crazy that I found your video a couple weeks after my birthday. My boyfriend had surprise me with an Airbnb booking with me and my friends with a hot tub. The house was rustic, vintage and perfect and was advertised as 420 friendly. It turned out to be a total nightmare. the owner kept encouraging me and my friends to walk around naked. One of the rooms had a bed soaked in cat urine because the owner had left the animal in that bedroom for three days. My friends were able to find beds to sleep on, but my boyfriend and I could not find a room to sleep, until we found a bedroom downstairs. Little did we know that this bedroom was actually a sex dungeon, where there were disco lights turned on with sex toys laid out for everyone to see. that room was not advertised in the Airbnb, and at that point my boyfriend and I had no other place to sleep. Then the owner tried to extort my boyfriend of $300 because he tried to claim that it was $300 per person rather than $300 a night. He ended up taking $150 from him. this owner took my boyfriend and I belongings (and our only available place to sleep that didn’t have cat pee) and told us that room was off-limits. And it also turned out, that the hot tub that he was encouraging us to go naked and was right next to this man’s bedroom window. We were this man’s first guest. When everyone left (which we were able to make it out without conflict) my boyfriend confronted the owner and got his money back and making sure the owner knew that he was a pervert. The owners response was on the lines of “Ouuu but it’s 420 friendly”. THAT DOESNT MEAN ENCOURAGING EVERYONE IN THE NUDE AND MAKING EVERYONE AWARE OF YOUR SEX DUNGEON. Fortunately, we were able to get the listing down however, my boyfriend has still yet to receive a refund for all of this. I’m so glad that I am not alone with this Airbnb debacle. edit: we were able to call the police and get his listing down from the air bnb

Laura is a hero in my eyes for taking on those greedy a-holes.The AirBnB/Verbo/STR problem is so bad here in Puerto Rico that they're now in the process of regulating them & I am 100% for it. One town I worked at for awhile currently consists of roughly 70% STRs (mostly ABnBs) which is an absolute nightmare since it meant that everyone who worked there either had to commute over an hour BY BOAT (if it didn't break down), 30 minutes by plane (too expensive for most workers) or cram themselves into a house with 5+ people while working multiple jobs. Nothing ever opened on time (or at all sometimes) so it meant that we encountered a ton of pissed off tourists & locals whenever we'd get to the place. Oh, and STR guests would usually get into fights with ferry terminal staff because the hosts failed to disclose on their listings that you were supposed to buy tickets online at least a week in advance. The worst time of year during that job was obviously Spring Break because it meant 90-100% occupancy rates at the STRs so you had to buy tickets to get to work about 1-2 months in advance just to beat out all the tourists. The ferry staff is also told to prioritize getting people to the town vs supplies because of that. It usually devolves into FyreFest levels of madness (ex. "food & water runs out faster than usual, causing the National Guard to have to intervene"). Sure, you can say "that's not the host's fault" but when you create & promote an economy that solely focuses on one industry, a ton of stuff tends to get neglected in the process. In this case, basic human necessities. Don't even get me started on people illegally running ABnBs out of section 8 housing, using HUD funding to make even more STRs, hosts sending their guests to get "complentary meals" at friggin soup kitchens & the increment of crime in communities that are mostly STRs/not lived in full time.

laura's fighting a one woman battle and i gotta say im for it

Nice bit of journalism 👍🏻 with that perfect amout of Gabisms ✌🏻

oh boy. Airbnb has been an absolute $hitshow in the past few years. One time we stayed at a place that the host was clearly not supposed to be renting out. We use it mostly because of dogs but now hotels are starting to allow dogs. My last airbnb was a 100+ year old building that was under renovation and had a very musty smell. The owner left me "." as a review. Wow. Thanks bud.

Also, should be noted, you didnt even touch on the fact that AirBNB can bring crime to areas. We had an apartment unit nearby that had tenants renting out units, and it caused a lot of localized crime/incidents. Apartment went from maybe two police incidents a month (if that) to two-three a week, from tourists and people overdoing with drinks (we were in a historic district with a lot of local dive bars). It completely changed the nature of the neighborhood we were in.

Very informative info presented in an entertaining way, thank you! 😊

This channel has been one of my favourite latest finds on KZfaq❤❤

I have legitimately seen AirBnB listings in my neighborhood that charge more for a weekend’s stay than what I pay per month in rent, only to sit empty after summer ends. Shit’s crazy. Anyways, I loved how much effort went into making this! It’s great seeing a smaller creator grow

laura is a hero and the airbnb owners complaining about her “causing hardship to strangers” like they aren’t doing that themselves by buying homes people could live in or rent long term.

A lady moved into our mobile home retirement park and immediately started renting out her RV as an air BnB. She did this off and on for about 3 years but whenever cornered she would kick out her guests before the management could somehow physically catch her, after the manager was fired it got less but she continues to rent it out periodically to what I'm guessing is a private list of "friends and family" who take it over for weeks while she disappears. The last ones looked like ZZ Top and blasted music out of their pickup truck in a neighborhood of mostly 80 yr olds.