AirBnb deletes negative reviews. I stayed at an AirBnb and had a disappointing stay, which I put into a review. The AirBnb host contacted me and insulted both my wife and I. Also, our negative review was not present on the listing for this particular room (our stay and review was on my customer site, but not on the host's site). I contacted AirBnb HQ about this and the negative review was put back - for about a week - after which the stay was totally removed from my account. I again contacted HQ about this and was told that since there was no record of my stay, they couldn't do anything about it.
AirBnB is death to small scenic towns. The area I live is drowning in AirBnB options but you can't find an actual place to rent for a reasonable rate. The result is a slow strangulation on the local renting populations ability to live in the area... What the fuck?
Letting any industry self-regulate is totally insane. Self regulation means no regulations, and with the money they save they can hire lawyers and lobby governments to make sure anyone victimized just gets into worse shit if they try to complain about it.
@@generationofswine-ge5rw and as we have all seen through the drug war that the government is SUPER SUPER good at regulating things people want. I mean how can you argue with the same people that have spent a century fighting a losing war of course they're judgment can be readily trusted! :) That's you, that's what you sound like.
@@fpsRussiaviewer no, most of the landlords list the flats in Airbnb instead of renting to people who would live there this reduces 5ge number of available flats for long term rent, increasing prices
Rented a room in a house for two years until the landlord started secretly using three of the bedrooms as AirBnB rooms. Hard to consider somewhere home with random middle aged, unvetted men just coming and going all the time.
@@patrickthomas8890 Renters are entitled to what they rent. If you didn't rent the entire house, you don't get to decide who rents and stays in the other rooms.
@@patrickthomas8890 If you're renting a room its assumed the other rooms might be rented to other people. Isn't that obvious? This...in the world before airbnb...is exactly why I didn't rent a room for very long.
Hotels were out of touch with their customers. They even raised prices during recessions. People very much want to travel, but the hotel industry didn’t seem to understand or listen to what they did want. Just like the music industry made a poor decision when they introduced CDs but decided to charge about triple the price of the cassette, and that paved the way for Napster, the taxi and hotel industries were very much doing business as usual without even considering that the customer did not want to pay $200 a night but was willing to pay about $100 a night. So, Uber and Airbnb exist because the people have to create a free market where one doesn’t exist.
Alot of your comment is misinformation/half truths and I am not sure where to start. I like Airbnb, but Hotels are not out of touch with consumers. Unless you goto a five star hotel, in general the two services are priced very similarly. The only difference is one is regulated, the other is not.
Twenty-Fifth it’s true that a lot more people are traveling and using Airbnb, and, apparently, hotels weren’t reaching a base that Airbnb is reaching. Of course, that is an observation on my part, yes. My comments about cassettes and CDs are based on my experience in music stores in the nineties as a teenager. I was often given the choice between buying a boxed set of a David Bowie album for $50 or buying it on cassette for around $4.99.
You can’t compare the prices of Airbnb’s and hotels. There are a lot of services in hotels that cost labor, such as housekeeping, maintenance, management, etc. These services are simply not provided in an Airbnb. Airbnb’s can be seen as a step down from hotels in these terms. There are hotels that are very cheap that do not have these services...they’re called motels and they cost way less than Airbnb’s. You can book a motel for as low as $30 a night in some areas.
Dr. Apollo the existence of motels does not alter the fact that hotel owners are deliberately gouging their prices. I’m not comparing hotels with Airbnb: I’m saying the success of Airbnb is a consumer response to years of hotel price gouging.
Its all about making money...and in exchange you get a low quality service. Selfishness in people is driving the world towards the end faster than you can imagine.
Selfishness has to be qualified. What we do not want to see is selfish intent with a selfish result. What we want is selfish intent with an altruistic result. Both paradigms can function within a hierarchy, but the results will be good in one, and we see the result of the other in our world.
Lol selfishness have always run the world only difference is technology brings it to unfiltered 247 . And the 1% or 10% is enjoying more than ever and the middle class is no experience what they was playing blind to . Of the bottom 65% to 70% have or had nothing.
@@annihilationHaven should we not incentivise and reward selflessness and altruism and make being selfish and destructive punished by the systems we create. The current profit system doesn't do that. So maybe we should be progressing to a new system and gaining as much information on new economic structures as possible
Ultimately the problem with Airbnb is the same as the problem with Uber: designed as a way for people to get a little extra scratch by renting out something they're not using anyway (Airbnb=house when they're out of town, Uber=car when they don't have somewhere else to go) hijacked by people turning it into a full time job.
Another potential problem is the concept of "civil forfeiture," where a building where illegal acts have happened can be judged Guilty even if the owners weren't involved. The owners lose their house to the government because somebody did something illegal while staying there.
Absolutely agree. I was a host for 4 years beginning in late 2008 and it started great and ended horribly with guests bringing cats that pissed all over my house and cost me $3000 in damages that Airbnb sided with the guest and gave me only $472. I had NUMEROUS damages like this. Then as a Guest i was kicked out of an Airbnb because I have a Service Animal. I've had him for 9 years and the Host didn't want dogs, so Airbnb forced me to go to a hotel which they paid for. But that is essentially allowing discrimination with the hopes that I would not use Airbnb again. Everything about Airbnb has gone down hill since the the first two years. In Brasil we had our Apartment robbed and $8000 in items stolen. Airbnb demanded we get receipts for everything and customs reports that we possessed it. Of course we didn't have that in the middle of a vacation. In the end, after months of fighting we got $1500 from Airbnb because we had $3000 in receipts and they depreciated the values of all of our items. The host is still a host. It was legal robbery. My gf had a guest who came from Ohio to Sunnyvale and immediately found a new boyfriend to stay with so she wanted to cancel her month stay, because he was cheaper or free. She refused because renting the room out that quickly would be hard and would result in a loss of income. So the girl called Airbnb and claimed that her other roommate was a sex offender and they immediately let her leave and gave her all the money. We provided evidence that he was not a sex offender (guilty until proven innocent) and still got nothing from Airbnb. Now they are complicated to manage, they punish you for canceling for any reason at all, they have driven DOWN the prices of your houses and rooms with "SMart Pricing" and in most places in California they are as much as a Hotel. Who is winning here? Airbnb. They take 12% from the Host and 7% from the guest. Wow, 20% just for existing? If you use Airbnb, you get what you deserve. Simple as that.
shake cleaning products bottles, if there is a rattle inside there is a hole to get your hand in behind the lable. or it could be in a drawer in the badroom
Ya, you definitely shouldn't rent out your spare room, because you never know what your tenant will do. However, if you open up a licensed motel, the tenants will be great!
+George Cataloni don't mean to jump in, but just happened to see this while scrolling and the "not so good" part is it is increasing a national housing market shortage which is an issue for the generations actually trying to buy houses. Also REGARDLESS of what happens to someone's home while they are in it the company has no accountability which becomes more of an issue with the hundreds of things that have gone wrong during these rentals. Sure not a problem for an individual, but en mass it has created alot of problems
Nate F How does flooding the market with more short term rentals affect the housing market? Also, how does "no problem for the individual" translate to "problem en mass"? When you buy something on Ebay, for example, even though the ratings system is there to help you, ultimately, the risk of poor experience will always be there. You choose to use the service or not, and you choose how much risk is tolerable for you.
because the short term rental properties flooding the market would otherwise be properties for sale. There are groups buying a large number of properties, then renting them out through the service. By no problem for the individual I meant for individual renters sure they may get new rental options but if something has a negative effect on the housing market of a particular city/state that can have economic implications that affect the region rather than just individual renters
Same, but also that river that runs east-west through northern Africa. You'd think the Sahara desert would be less of a deal if there was just a major river running through that area.
My building has 36 condos and only 7 of us are owners/long term renters. All of the other units have been turned into full time Airbnb apartments. My home turned into a hotel in less than a year. This is what happens without regulations. People abuse the system, and push out people living in spaces that used to have a sense of community.
I will never use Airbnb again after getting into a dispute with a "host" who kept me up most of the night. Although I had rented "the whole place," it was a cobbled together basement in-law and the loud hosts were over my head, running around, shouting, and playing video games into the night. Also, even though she'd been called a "super host," the place was filthy. I messaged the host and asked them to keep it down (how awkward is that?) and they didn't. I then messaged them that I'd be canceling my 2nd and 3rd nights. Her husband stupidly messaged me that they'd refund those nights... but then they strung me out for weeks until it was too late for me to post a negative review and refused to refund me. Airbnb did step in and get me my 2nd and 3rd nights back when they saw the messages and the photos I took. Horrible experience. I have traveled twice since and have booked real hotels where I'll be treated like a guest. I'll never go back to Airbnb.
I tried air b n b while traveling in Europe last summer. I have to say I wasn't impressed. Many of the places I stayed in were not as described or even pictured. The prices people charged for even small, studio apartments were as high if not higher than hotels in the surrounding area. Like the poster from Lisbon - it also drove rent prices in my area up really high, now property owners would like to rent to tourists rather than residents. Its a scam. They have no accountability and no safety standards. You have no idea who you're renting to or renting from. Many of the listings are fake and no safety standards are in place. Hotels, which are licensed, bonded, insured and taxed are much more reliable and professional. I like Booking.com, I found much better deals for hotels than air b n b.
why would anyone post a fake post?? alsi airbnb are more expensive than hotels???so you think ppl who rent there are fools who didnt compare prices?Also..is my country Greece who now has really low hotel prices the only exception where airbnb is even cheaper?? no f/in way! a friend needed a hotel for few days recently and the cheapest was 8euro for 6hours at night You can rent a 2room apartment in airbnb with25euro ,1 room ap with 20 and 1room with access to the kitchen with 15 plz find me a hotel at this price
Emily E, traveling in the US, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe, I've never seen a place where an average hotel-like Airbnb (studio apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom, comparable to a hotel room) was anywhere near as expensive as a hotel room. The only exceptions are when you're staying in an Airbnb that is a full home. Sure, a two bedroom/two bathroom house with a living room and full kitchen might be more than a hotel room. That isn't the case in my city, as I live in a touristy area with criminally expensive hotels, but I guess you might see that in some places.
My family has stayed almost exclusively in air bnb places (while traveling) for the last six or seven years and have never experienced a problem. We always stay in a private home. This sometimes is more expensive than a hotel room (but, usually is comparable), but we don't have to share a sleeping area with a child, we get a kitchen so save money on eating out, and have made friends with owners. I don't like the fact that rents can be driven up by air bnb, but as a service I love it.
Things are what they are, not what people say they are. Uber is a taxi company, Airbnb is an international hotel company, and they should be subjected to all regulations, taxes and responsibilities.
Yes both Airbnb and Uber and all of em need to start paying their fair share instead of dropping all the fees on guests and those poor bastard hosts. Can you imagine being a host?
Uber is definitely a cab company but I wouldn’t say that about Air BnB. In they video they said the company is “Technically” a middleman. Uh... no, they are literally a middleman. They are more like Zillow and StreetEasy than they are the Hilton or even Motel 6.
This actually changed my opinion. I've always liked AirBnb, because the times I've used it as a guest, I've stayed with some wonderful people and only had good experiences. But you're right - it's got to be enormously bad for housing prices and availability. Good food for thought - thank you!
If this awful piece of propaganda changed your opinion, you should think one more time, maybe longer than 5 seconds. If you think that government regulating every damn move of citizens is a good thing, if you think government have a right to tell owners of property what to do with their property, to whom and how to rent it - you don't understand the dangers of it. Today they tell you you can't rent flat you own via airbnb, tomorrow they will force you to give up your flat because someone else need it more. Read about communist Russia, bolshevism and collectivism if you want to understand dangers of such approach. People aren't idiots, and airbnb (and similar platforms) are a great marketplace, where market works exactly how it suppose to work: hosts that are bad will get bad reviews and later won't get new customers, customers who are shitty won't be approved (if host decide to preapprove guests), and if a city have problem with too many tourists, then probably they get a lot of other benefits from these tourists, and in general, if cities have problems with housing they should build houses, not punish hard working people who are trying to make their lives better. Very rich people don't care that much about airbnb, it's too much small work, they build hotels, or build and rent whole buildings. The only people these despicable regulations are fucking over is middle or upper middle class people, who might've worked real long to buy another flat to rent it, or where family over generations built something, some capital, so children could have a bit better lives. So think one more time before you jump to conclusions that airbnb is bad, because it isn't. What's bad is this dumbass propaganda video.
You are obviously easily influenced, I would avoid any serious decision making for the remainder of your adult life. I have never stayed at an airb&b before, but this is clearly a one sided hit piece and the fact that you were influenced by it is troubling to say the least
@@FryTV I sent my bad review a week ago and it still won't even show up under the host/property. They do NOT POST bad reviews, therefore they are dishonest. Airbnb ruined my families only vacation together where all of us were together. They are a very dishonest company and I wish I would have known the risk and had honest reviews to view before booking through this company.
Interesting though how housing prices got bad without the help of Airbnb. At the same time the hotel industry decided if you weren't rich, you can't travel.
I remember a time of bouncing around Airbnb rentals for over a year. Almost all of the people we met using Airbnb were using Airbnb and endlessly searching for a home. Many had decided they had to move away.
THANK YOU for creating this. As a constant traveler, I always avoid Airbnb. Hosts are not trained in hospitality. They never buy nice mattresses no matter how high the price point of their listing. The furniture is always cheap IKEA crap.
Dude I stayed in Paris at an Airbnb and the pillows smelled so bad I was so grossed out and thankfully my boyfriend at the time was a coder and was able to find that the camera inside the unit was active even though the owner said it wasn’t. The ex was able to decode it and shut it down.
I think if hotels are priced correctly, Airbnb wouldn't have become so big. Personally, the part that I don't like about Airbnb is that the host can back out after booking confirmation.
Hotels have to deal with higher regulations and service, that's why you pay so much. It's a costly service to maintain. The better they are, the higher the standards they hold, the higher the luxury experience they bring all equal the higher the price they have to pay... look at it this way, you'd pay more driving to a spar, having a personal chef who used high grade imported ingredients and a staff for your house that deals with keeping new bed sheets that you paid for on your bed every day and keeping everything absolutely spotless while you get a great view outside your bedroom window in a week than you would just renting a high end room for a week. Airbnb doesn't do that... Their niche basically lies on the fact that the whole "travelling is life" market scheme has made people who can't afford it want it so bad that they are willing to live in a stranger's house who's not regulated by inspectors to make sure that the standards are met thus less costs. And less costs almost always means less quality. And as a host, these factors mean your property will be used for lots of unimaginable activities... like the whole brothel situation. I get what you're saying though, and i agree with you on a personal level.
I would have to agree. If hotels and apartments were cheaper the commotion would be less one sided. Heck I also think this has to do with how overly complicated jobs are to get. If getting licensed were as/more streamlined the becoming a AirBnb host or Uber driver the consumer and employee risks to reward would look less compelling.
If Airbnb apartments were priced correctly the market would find them closer to hotel prices. As an apartment owner, I have to absorb the costs of their business in my apartment block along with all owners. In a hotel or licensed serviced apartment business those costs belong to investors only and their is onsite management is all part of the cost of running a business that produces a profit. These people are destroying our home life, because some people want a cheap holiday in my home - no one pays me for that nuisance, invasion. loss of security etc. etc. Alot of 'Airbnb Guest' do not even releaise they are entering our collectively owned private property when they come into our apartment blocks. Regards.
If my neighbor rented out his apartment on Air Bnb I would be pissed! It's just plain inconsiderate and rude to effectively invite strangers into a building without supervision, and just party and get up to all kinds of mayhem. That's a safety and quality of life issue, and airbnb is just another manifestation of the selfishness infesting Society
Kind of like an episode of Breaking Bad. Just rent the house and cook up some meth, maybe film some porn, or deal in stolen guns?... What could go wrong? Right?
I also had bad experience with Airbnb. The host was insulting us because we parked like a foot into her drive. She screamed at our door like a crazy maniac when we were sleeping peacefully "WHO? WHO PARKED IN MY DRIVEWAY? IS IT YOU!? WHOOOOOOOO IT IS YOUUUUU!" She was provocative asking if our parents don't teach us any manner and proceed to throw tantrums at us. We left immediately (in fact, we ran immediately) We couldn't believe that she only has hundred of good reviews and not a single negative one. It's not like we don't have money to stay at a hotel. Airbnb sucks and we will never use it again. We're the customer with money, and they're the seller that wants money, not the other way around. I don't get why Airbnb sides with bad hosts. They will eventually lose good customers.
My neighbours house is an Airbnb and I hate it so much. They litter, I'm constanly finding their garbage in my yard. The landlords never clean in between renters and they still have the "squeaky clean" badge on that rental property.
literally if they're a neighborhood menace as you say report them to your city council, if your neighborhood has a homeowners association, literally get them in trouble because all of our rents are going up because of them.
The ONLY reason why AirBnB became so popular was becase most hotels had unreasonably high prices, misleading room rates, AND municipal or city taxes (I'm pointing at YOU - NYC government) that were insanely high and unjustified. I've never been an AirBnB host or user, but I'm glad that there is more competition to wake up the hotel industry. And why is Cracked defending these big-business companies?
Yeah taxes aren't justified, until you get hurt, ripped off, or victimized, and you try to seek some redress or compensation. I guess as long as it only happens to others it's no biggie, until it is. Who needs empathy when you can save a few bucks, which you need because there has been no increase in wages in N America since the 1960's. Corporate feudalism is going to look so good on millennials once I'm too old to care.
I don't think they are defending the hotel companies. They even said why would we care that AirBnb disrupting the hotel industry. But as he said the problem has to do with safety and it's making housing more scarce and more expensive for regular people. I don't think he's saying it's necessarily better to stay in a hotel or that we need to boycott AirBnb. He is saying that AirBnb needs to do better at regulating BECAUSE it has become such a necessity.
rent controls aim to lock the price at an affordable level by making it illegal to charge more than a certain amount people should be restricted to buying only 1 residential property (which you own for whatever purpose you want, including airbnb but you will not be able to buy or rent another one unless you sell it) and the government rents out all properties that are not currently owned at 30% of the persons income that will serve to > reduce taxes (since the government will have an entire country of rent money coming in) > increase supply (since you wont have one person buying an entire apartment block or subdivision, like we have here in sydney) > totally kill the h̶o̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶g̶o̶u̶g̶e̶ ̶f̶e̶s̶t private rental market (which will result in almost no foreign investment in the housing market, the chinese completely fucked sydneys housing market) that should result in overall more affordability and almost no homelessness
Im all for encouraging the entrepreneur but they really have had a huge part to play in why many of us can't afford to live where we grew up. So they move away from the cities they can't afford to live in or do business in which is gradually eroding the reasons ppl want to go to a city, all the shops aren't in one place anymore and there are far fewer ppl there to create a city atmosphere.
Yeah its more efficient distribution of resources. Lots of people try to prevent cities from becoming too expensive but if they didn't people would go elsewhere giving other cities a chance to grow and flourish.
Most of our parents had to buy houses out of cities (the middle class at least) it's a part of moving out. You save your money to buy a cheap place somewhere cheap where you can get a job and grow from there
@@dcgregorya5434 Yeh except now only the richest 10% will occupy the city and many of those don't live in nor will ever visit the city they own property in.
I feel like a lot of people are missing the point of this video. The video isn't attacking AirBnB for providing alternatives to hotels, it's attacking them for not caring enough about their facilitation to protect the renters. Regulation CAN be a good thing, especially if it holds people accountable, but the only ones accountable in this situation are the illegal renters or people who rent and don't take care of their property, and AirBnB walks away saying "Oh well, not my fault" despite the fact that they allowed that listing on their site. Moreover, it's not helping the housing shortage if everyone in your neighborhood would rather rent out 20 apartments than put them up for lease. However, they are NOT saying that the people who are renting legally on the site are bad at all.
There are also a lot of people who understand the point of the video and simply don't agree with the argument that more regulations are good and will help. Rather, it is okay if people are allowed to choose to stay at a place or not at their own risk without having any safety net of government regulations. Government regulations always step into the middle of voluntary transactions and state what is allowed and it always results in fewer choices and higher costs. Regulations help the large established companies by providing a barrier to entry. That is why hotels are upset at Airbnb and why Airbnb has lobbied government to counteract the hotel lobbyists. Also, I should be allowed to use my property how I want. Most people only complain about things that lower home values, but this video complains about values going up. You can always find something to complain about. Many people like the feeling of safety they get at a hotel due to government regulations. No one is forcing them to use Airbnb so the proper course of action is to avoid Airbnb and warn your neighbor, but don't call for more regulations to control and restrict something you don't like. The call for more regulations is framed by saying you are concerned about the customers and providers of the service, but they seem to be happy with the way things are. Or it is framed in a way to say that Airbnb is evil because they made money and spent it on things you disagree with, therefore they deserve punitive regulations to put them in line. If you want to use Airbnb, but only if they accommodate you, you can do that now without getting the government involved. If they honor your wishes, use their service. If they don't, go somewhere else. Doesn't freedom sound nice? No one denies that freedom comes with risks, but I say freedom is worth it.
So you’d like to see two human beings to missing ? Because you’ve been told that you shouldn’t like people who make money by a series of generations of adults who never bothered to check their own biases so never got the memo that they were being ignorantly pessimistic. Also just plain ignorant. Uber and Airbnb. Even in their worst state. Improve the lives of people 10 fold ;). Prove. Me. Wrong.
Super random/unrelated: what the hell is with the weirdo-fictional “larger-than-Great-Lakes” bodies of water over in the western United States portion of the map displayed behind him throughout this video..? Is anyone else bothered by this..? Are those supposed to exaggerated rivers? What the hells going on there?
That was the most concerning part of the video. I was looking for this comment thinking I would never find it because I went through 20+ before seeing this. I think the F stands for what Cracked thinks of its viewers, Fools.
Looking at the rest of it, it's pretty clear that this is not supposed to be an accurate map. There is some extra landmass in southern Europe, a fictional river across northern Africa, that doesn't even lead to an ocean and a giant made up inlet west of Japan among other things. Everyone who thinks for a second that this is supposed to be anything else than an artistic interpretation of a world map clearly lacks basic education. If you believe someone is trying to fool you here, you clearly don't need anyone else besides yourself to fool you.
13:50 "The rents in the last ten years have skyrocketed." So they're 'supplementing' their income with AirBbB. Which caused the rents to skyrocket, and will continue to skyrocket them further.
Unless they can work more hours or get the money somewhere else it is the only solution for those in the middle class that can't afford their rents. A perpetual increase of rents, all thanks to Air BnB.
I rented a place in Stillwater, OK called "Stilly Cottage"...It was dirty and had bed bugs, no blinds...only thin see through curtains. The claw foot tub was peeling and there was a huge window in the kitchen that made me feel like I was staying in a fishbowl. I am so confused as to its 5 star ratings. I feel duped. I don't trust AirBNB at all. I am done.
This makes me even happier that I rage quit AirBnB before I even used it. It's a pity that small time people get hurt by this system when people like me refuse to use the app.
@@Pseudynom no don't HOTELS are fucking terrible and this video has aged terribly USE AIRBNB. It's better for both consumers and the environment. Fuck the hotel industry and it's corporate doners.
I lived beneath a condo that was an AirBNB for "tech bros" and it was a MISERABLE existence. The "guests" blocked open security doors to let in their friends, thought the hallways and elevators were a great place to throw trash, and that 3 am was a perfectly reasonable time to throw a loud party. There's a place for that kind of behavior: it's called a "hotel".
this is my favorite kind of video you guys make because you're not super angry or shitting on people but you're still getting the facts across in an interesting way, which I really appreciate.
Companies like Airbnb, Google, and Amazon are what dystopian future movies warned us about, and many dont seem to understand this fact, or the concept of it. Yeah we all love getting good deals, cheaper products, and cheaper services, but do we really understand or can we really fathom the cost of such services and products. Right now in 2021, all food producers or suppliers in the world are owned by basically 6 companies. These types of companies do offer cheaper products, but to many people never stop to think at what cost, and then we want to complain about jobs, wages and competition when we could all lower our uses of big companies and support local, small, or medium size companies. Until we all come to the conclusion that we are what is creating the problem it wont be solved and in fact it may be to late.
+Aphro And you forgive cracked for trying to inform you of facts with a well-produced, free video on the Internet instead of a long article you wouldn't have read in the first place.
Agree. I had some really bad Airbnb experiences and finally realise a simple fact, that if you were dealing with an unregulated & illegal business, there's nothing you can do when things go wrong, especially when it comes to safety. Risking your life and health for a few nights of cheap stay just dosen't make sense. BTW the ones I stayed in has really high scores and positive reviews.
I live in a vacation town controlled by the hotels. Here the hotels crank up the BS to increase tourism and business to the point where the businesses need to hire more employees than there are places to live. We literally have workers with full time jobs who are forced to be homeless despite have enough money to rent a place out. In a town like this AirBnB is a good thing. Also, as someone who has worked in the hotel industry for over 10 years I can tell you that hotels are full of BS and lie all the time. Hotels want airbnb dead because its competition. Hotels generally work with each other to the point where they'll all gather in yearly meetings to work together and discuss what prices each of them will charge. When you decide to go for the cheaper 3-star instead of the expensive 5-star the 5-star will STILL get some of your money. Health and safety inspections are easily passed with bribes. Even the cleanliness of a hotel is BS. If you have issues with sleeping in a random person's USED bed then hotels arn't for you, even all the 5-star hotels don't wash the Duvet/Donor/Comforter, the pillows, the mattress pad, the glasses(properly), and the mattress. Oh and bed bug infestations happen once a month in EVERY hotel. Though you'll never get an employee to openly tell you all this because the hotel industry in North America is one of the worst for how employees are treated and if an employee dares to speak the truth they will be immediately fired and blacklisted from all but the smallest privately owned hotels. I could go on forever about this but the sum of it is that if you have moral or hygiene standards for the businesses you give your money to a hotel is the last place you'll want to visit. Sure there's probably some legit hotels out there but most (especially chains) are in the business of selling you BS. Your best bet will always be small independently owned hotels, AirBnB, and camping.
Perhaps some motel owners should just close their hotel, move in, call it their 50+ room house, and then use AirBNB to rent out the rooms? That way they can avoid government regulation too! The thing this video misses is that it's the REGULATIONS that are the problem, not AirBNB.
It's both. We can walk and chew gum and admit it's both: no regs on airbnb, gov not building enough housing/holding back AFFORDABLE, NON-LUXURY housing. Also plenty of other countries regulate airbnb or ban it, watch the actual video.
It's only a regulation issue because airbnb found a flaw in regulation and exploited it. It's no secret that companies like airbnb and uber simply exist due to technological evolution and so they're able to slip through the regulatory cracks because the regulations weren't designed to mitigate what can be done with current technology. In any case, do you hold the con man blameless because he's technically playing by the rules while taking advantage of people that the rules were designed to prevent? It's ethically questionable regardless and regulations should and hopefully will change to stop exploitation like this.
I know Ari Teman -- the guy with the orgy in his room -- personally. The episode put him on a rental blacklist in NYC. You'll never meet a more hardcore foe of Airbnb.
Anybody who can rent out their home to complete strangers deserves what's coming to them. They distort the housing market, and governments and local authorities are in general too supine to regulate the housing market for people who really need homes, leaving it to those who want to make a quick profit out of it. Have nothing to do with Airbnb in any way.
Basically, like most of the "great" sharing economies, Airbnb is a two-sided market provider that extracts money from service providers from one side of the market bought by the other side of the market for the service of connecting the two. The app world has made it a lot easier to provide and access these kind of markets for individuals. And, as theory would predict for a now more atomistic market than before, it drives down the prices in the, in this case, short-time living/stay market. However, it drives up the prices in the long-time living/stay market as it united these previously separate markets.
During Irma, my house was completely destroyed and my family took refuge in an Airbnb. Little did we know it was a crack house. Literally a crack house, there were crack spoons, smoke marks, bullet holes...but it was the only place with running water and electricity. Someone actually attempted to get in while we were there. Luckily the gate lock withstood the beating. We were forced to stay there and when I spoke to Airbnb about the uninhabitable state, they said sorry and they are within regulations/the requirements of Airbnb. Airbnb is fucked up.
I have never used Airbnb or Uber, never will. I stay in hotels when I travel and I'm glad to. I help pay wages for people who are sending children to school and university, human beings.
We need an economy where you can work harder/more to get nicer things, and you can make a living on on limited hours. Our goal should be as much free time to enjoy family, friends, and life as possible. Robotics will slowly displace workers. We have to find solutions to deal with dwindling opportunities beyond the "I got mine" attitude. Reducing the population, fewer hours with more pay, etc. It's a complicated issue that we need to consider now instead of waiting till we're well into the problem before admitting the problem even exists.
You're absolutely right there other wealthy countries that are giving to the people less hours so they can be with family spend more time in other things I think overworking like a slave it's not healthy for the mind .. it have to be a balance..
right? They've gotten super communistic in their rhetoric over the past ten years. Do you remember a time when cracked wrote funny and entertaining pieces to help us all forget about our troubles for a few minutes.........pepperidge farm remembers. But now all they ever do is get preachy and angry about pretty much everything.
I don't get the complaint about Uber wanting to go driverless at the end. Driverless cars are _demonstrably safer_ AND a sound business choice. Or are you going to complain that there isn't any work for horses anymore?
I'd love to have automation everywhere,(Every step towards a Star Trek universe is a step forward to me.) the problem is the switch removes the income for those that did the job before. Not having money tends to be a bad thing and it's not like uber is going to keep paying the people from the increased profits of not having drivers.
Cody Collins Okay, so, how do you propose to resolve that problem? Jobs go away. That's what happens. Does it suck for the people losing the jobs? Absolutely. There's no non-messy way to advance the technology though, and the world _with_ the technology will ultimately be a better one than _without._
Taxing the companies and providing a safety net of funds for basic living expenses and education for the unemployed so they can get new jobs and not be at risk of homelessness and starvation.
Cody Collins That's a patch job. What happens when the same thing happens to the new jobs they found? I'm all for a basic standard income- I just think it needs to come in a much more dramatic format to be effective (and will likely only be set up after the crisis it can solve). Out of curiosity, have you watched Humans Need Not Apply?
I wouldn't be happy if Japan got rid of Air bnb there. For one they don't have the commercial hotel market like we have in the US. A lot of the hotels I saw were marketed as love hotels, ones where you pay by the night or by the hr. I also stayed in capsule hotels for around $70 a night for my three foot by seven foot "room." Sure there are traditional inns but at around $200 a night on up isn't affordable for some. I can rent out someone's house for $40 a night and I get a nice bed and in some cases a full house.
Too much regulation=bad, no regulation=bad, innovation=gray area, why? Just because it's an innovation doesn't mean it'll make things better for all involved.
Yeah it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either. If I slip my couchsurfing host a $20 bill, it is functionally identical to AirBnB but even LESS oversight and LESS regulation.
Most couches I've surfed were not people I knew, otherwise I'd probably be sleeping in their beds after fucking them in the pussyhole instead of trying to make their couches seem like a decent place to sleep.
I've couchsurfed twice. The first host had had over 100 people stay with him in two years. The next guy was very nice, but his place was kind of a dump. Either way, both places were a good experience.
America may have to do a "brexit" with the "share economy." Honestly, in a Democracy we shouldn't simply have the privilege to deeply sigh and lose faith in our government's ability to empathize with the common man, we should be able to do something (like this video) and more. Also, don't all super villains believe they are a "force of nature," and are simply "honoring some 'invisible hand.'" That should be considered a mental disorder in the DSM. Good content.
This is incoherent. I had to read it three times just so I could be sure this was incomprehensible. I mean, is this a diatribe on capitalism (from "invisible hand"), in favor of forced free speech, or what?
I understood what he was saying. Don't say that these changes are inevitable, they're not. People are being slowly suckered away from having any bargaining rights on their own. Airbnb, Uber, they're all fronts for slowly removing rights from the individual employee by putting them in contractor status. Yes, some people make some money, but at the cost of many, many, many others. Capitalism absolutely must be regulated if you have any care for your fellow man. Otherwise, I got mines right?
Actually... I think that IS in the DSM. It's the same (mental gymnastics) condition that a lot of serial killers use to fillet prostitutes, in which they reason that they're doing the world a favor by getting rid of them, in addition to granting mercy to the unclean by having the privilege of being killed.
I stayed on one of those once only, owner was good, clean house, great all around, left it just as gotten, clean, despite the owner told me not to clean since he had a maid, I have been to hotels, motels and the like, clean sheet? no, smelly rooms? yes whatever cigarettes or molds... got sick afterwards, where is that accountability? THEN...... the price, was $109.99 at the cheapest, plus six to eight other taxes..... which brought it to $215.00 or thereabouts per night....... I no longer travel, but i wish there had been airbnb during my road trips. I do not think is that bad.
I only rate my ubers and lyfts 5 stars because i know they punish everything else. If you even try to rate 4 stars, they ask "What went wrong?" Ermagerd, a less than flawless ride? Burn tha witch!
I think this problem is being blown out of proportion. There is a very limited number of people needing temporary accomodation at any time, so when supply and demand reach an equilibrium, housing prices will stabilize again. You can always build more houses, but you can't create more tourists.
The problem is more houses haven't been being built and rents are going up and up and people need somewhere to live more days of the year than they do need to vacation. So your hypothesis is actually completely wrong, and you better get on the right side of history which is supporting people who rent instead of supporting corporations.
The problem at its root is that hotels charge an arm and a leg. If hotels were more affordable then we wouldnt need homes to replace them for temporary housing.
the hotels are the definition of crony capitalism. they lobby local government to create regulations that lock out competition and conspire against the consumer. The sharing economy is amazing because it lets creative destruction go after crony industries and disrupts the most corrupt parts of the economy
+Luke g That's nice, except it drives up the cost of living significantly. You can choose to not use a hotel, but you can't choose to not pay for your home.
András Bíró If the prices of hotel rooms dropped, then airbnb would be forced to charge less to be competitive. And on the otherside, the housing market benefits. More construction of new homes. If you really think airbnb is wrecking havoc on the prices of real estate, then invest in construction!
To anyone with slightest understanding of economics it's clear that the massive housing shortages in cities like San Francisco, London, New York, etc. Are the result of NIMBYism towards new construction. It's basic supply and demand: if you have increasing demand (these are desirable places to live ) but artificially restrict supply then prices will rise. Blaming Airbnb for it is obvious scapegoating by the politicians and wealthy property owners who benifit from and are the cause of said housing restriction
You know, the only part of the video i found compelling was the bit about the impact on the housing market, where people were buying up property and inflating prices. I think the home having to be your primary residence would actually be a smart bit of legislation.
Zoning laws in most localities prohibit any type of lodging uses in residential areas. Some places allow for an additional "incidental" use, provided that it's compatible with the neighborhood and is subordinate to the primary use (which is typically family residential). So yeah, it is possible to kick the investors out and still let homeowners occasionally rent their house out to tourists, all without writing a bunch of new laws.
Koert DuBois Now all we need to do is actually get law makers to do something... *cries* You're right though. The laws of course make sense, you cannot prohibit someone from having a house guest. This really would be the smart way to regulate it. And probably one of the only absolutely necessary regulations.
Not really. Most people starting out buy houses in small and cheap markets. This is someone's property and they should be allowed to use it how they see fit. All these kids think they can move out and buy a house in a big city or large development are losing the point of moving away. You move to small town with cheap housing and a job. Then work up from there. This is house town turn into cities with large value.
Thank you! Giving a portion of your Robert Barron fortune to charity is no great virtue when The way you got rich is what created the need for the charity in the first place. It is possible to get rich benefiting others. People just don’t feel like it.
Ironically this video just answered all possible questions and concerns that anybody considering hosting an illegal AirBnb might have had. This one video has done all the reasearch needed to give the greenlight to anyone considering jumping in to hosting.
Why is the government sticking its nose into Airbnb good? If someone wants to risk their safety freaking let them, regulations jack up prices. If the market calls for greater safety than greater safety will be implemented.
A point on the other side of the coin: I live in Milwaukee and have purchased my home with a fixed rate mortgage that will be paid off in 11 years. I LOST property value in 2008 along with many other people. If AirB&B drives property values UP, isn't that a GOOD thing for me? I mean, if I don't sell my house, my costs won't go up because I'm locked in. If I DO decide to sell for whatever reason after a dozen years, doesn't that mean my house will be worth MORE? If the prices of rentals go up, will people still rent there? Won't they simply rent somewhere else?
Renting out rooms in flats is always a bit of a risk for the owners. I know a few people who rent rooms. They have told me about horror experiences. One friend rented to a man who burned out the flat within the first month. Their insurance paid for part of the damage. Another friend was not being paid for several months of rent. Because of tenant protection laws in his town, he could not evict the man. After he finally got rid of the deadbeat, he could still not get his money back. So, both sides of the rental deal can lose out even if AIRBNB is not involved.
My neighbor started renting her apartment through airb&b this summer and thanks to her we feel like we live in a hotel now. Our kids are not safe in the communal areas and garden. There are new strangers caming in and out every week… so thank you airb&b. We’re desperately waiting for the new regulations..
AirBnB is great if you are going someplace touristy. We went Las Vegas a few months a ago. AirBnB someone's apartment just off the strip. The apartment had access via tunnel to the MGM and all its stuff. We paid about what the hotel was charging per night minus the tourist tax Extra person fees, and parking fees. Saved us hundreds. You check into the apartment like a hotel and they valet our car. We are going to Disney world this fall. What it would have cost us to stay at a Disney resort for the four days we are getting a six bedroom house with its own pool, access to a bigger resort like pool. And we have it for 10 days. 10 min drive to the parks. We have the grand parents coming and we are sharing the cost. Thousand bucks saved and we get the rest of the time to enjoy Florida. Yes we don't get the perks of staying at a resort. But we do save a lot of money. Me and wife have said we will never stay at resort again. Hotels are fine for road trips but never a resort again because of the cost. Yes you risk having a shitty place, but the same can be said of a hotel room. God knows I have had some shitty hotels. If you plan it out, and read the reviews which are more detailed then hotel reviews in my take. The owners of these places in the touristy places don't live there and are using them as an investment so it behooves them to have good reviews and experiences. Hell, some of the places in Florida we looked at are Disney or universal themed out . Something to think if you are looking to save cash.
That's the point, how did you miss that? AirBnB is great for TOURISTS not local home owners and people who want to live in said city. AirBnB is part of the reason why the housing prices are going up. Something to think about when you are looking to not trash the city or town you are temporarily staying in.
The reason Governments don't like Airbnb is loss of income (taxes). In Europe, tenants who rent are not allowed to sublet. Again, more regulation. Airbnb may not be perfect, but the State has their own opportunistic nefarious reasons for wanting to curb and regulate. In this age of hypertourism and insane hotel prices, the concept of Airbnb is perfect. There needs to be some kind of insurance/deposit system to make sure tenants are not duped.
I will never get how Air BnB caused so much competition. The horror stories. I will stick with a hotel. No way I am stepping foot in an apt. That being said, it is amazing how hypocritical the gov't is. They love capitalism, but will make policies to protect certain industries.
AirBnb deletes negative reviews.
I stayed at an AirBnb and had a disappointing stay, which I put into a review. The AirBnb host contacted me and insulted both my wife and I. Also, our negative review was not present on the listing for this particular room (our stay and review was on my customer site, but not on the host's site). I contacted AirBnb HQ about this and the negative review was put back - for about a week - after which the stay was totally removed from my account. I again contacted HQ about this and was told that since there was no record of my stay, they couldn't do anything about it.
They are an Evil bunch, it will be exposed...
Parzival Sattva dang we need some type of control
What the actual f**k? They are definitely evil...
There is a record on your card transactions
Tell them you never stayed there then and they need to refund the charges to your account. Two can play at that game. )
AirBnB is death to small scenic towns. The area I live is drowning in AirBnB options but you can't find an actual place to rent for a reasonable rate. The result is a slow strangulation on the local renting populations ability to live in the area... What the fuck?
that doesn't make any sense, wouldn't airbnb options force the costs of renting apartments DOWN to compete?
Letting any industry self-regulate is totally insane. Self regulation means no regulations, and with the money they save they can hire lawyers and lobby governments to make sure anyone victimized just gets into worse shit if they try to complain about it.
factually untrue.
@@generationofswine-ge5rw and as we have all seen through the drug war that the government is SUPER SUPER good at regulating things people want. I mean how can you argue with the same people that have spent a century fighting a losing war of course they're judgment can be readily trusted! :) That's you, that's what you sound like.
@@fpsRussiaviewer no, most of the landlords list the flats in Airbnb instead of renting to people who would live there this reduces 5ge number of available flats for long term rent, increasing prices
Rented a room in a house for two years until the landlord started secretly using three of the bedrooms as AirBnB rooms. Hard to consider somewhere home with random middle aged, unvetted men just coming and going all the time.
It wasn't YOUR home. YOU didn't own it. Entitlement misled you into a wrong assumption. Don't like it? Move then.
@@thisismagacountry1318 Renters have rights. Landlords can’t do anything they like with impunity just because they own the property.
You couldn't afford the entire house and so it was never your home.
@@patrickthomas8890 Renters are entitled to what they rent. If you didn't rent the entire house, you don't get to decide who rents and stays in the other rooms.
@@patrickthomas8890 If you're renting a room its assumed the other rooms might be rented to other people. Isn't that obvious? This...in the world before airbnb...is exactly why I didn't rent a room for very long.
Hotels were out of touch with their customers. They even raised prices during recessions. People very much want to travel, but the hotel industry didn’t seem to understand or listen to what they did want. Just like the music industry made a poor decision when they introduced CDs but decided to charge about triple the price of the cassette, and that paved the way for Napster, the taxi and hotel industries were very much doing business as usual without even considering that the customer did not want to pay $200 a night but was willing to pay about $100 a night. So, Uber and Airbnb exist because the people have to create a free market where one doesn’t exist.
Alot of your comment is misinformation/half truths and I am not sure where to start.
I like Airbnb, but Hotels are not out of touch with consumers.
Unless you goto a five star hotel, in general the two services are priced very similarly.
The only difference is one is regulated, the other is not.
Twenty-Fifth it’s true that a lot more people are traveling and using Airbnb, and, apparently, hotels weren’t reaching a base that Airbnb is reaching. Of course, that is an observation on my part, yes. My comments about cassettes and CDs are based on my experience in music stores in the nineties as a teenager. I was often given the choice between buying a boxed set of a David Bowie album for $50 or buying it on cassette for around $4.99.
You can’t compare the prices of Airbnb’s and hotels. There are a lot of services in hotels that cost labor, such as housekeeping, maintenance, management, etc. These services are simply not provided in an Airbnb. Airbnb’s can be seen as a step down from hotels in these terms. There are hotels that are very cheap that do not have these services...they’re called motels and they cost way less than Airbnb’s. You can book a motel for as low as $30 a night in some areas.
Dr. Apollo the existence of motels does not alter the fact that hotel owners are deliberately gouging their prices. I’m not comparing hotels with Airbnb: I’m saying the success of Airbnb is a consumer response to years of hotel price gouging.
Debby R Okay, I see your point. Airbnb certainly offers a more affordable option for guests overall.
Its all about making money...and in exchange you get a low quality service.
Selfishness in people is driving the world towards the end faster than you can imagine.
Selfishness has to be qualified. What we do not want to see is selfish intent with a selfish result. What we want is selfish intent with an altruistic result. Both paradigms can function within a hierarchy, but the results will be good in one, and we see the result of the other in our world.
Lol selfishness have always run the world only difference is technology brings it to unfiltered 247 . And the 1% or 10% is enjoying more than ever and the middle class is no experience what they was playing blind to . Of the bottom 65% to 70% have or had nothing.
As it always has before
Entropy is bae
@@annihilationHaven should we not incentivise and reward selflessness and altruism and make being selfish and destructive punished by the systems we create. The current profit system doesn't do that. So maybe we should be progressing to a new system and gaining as much information on new economic structures as possible
Ultimately the problem with Airbnb is the same as the problem with Uber: designed as a way for people to get a little extra scratch by renting out something they're not using anyway (Airbnb=house when they're out of town, Uber=car when they don't have somewhere else to go) hijacked by people turning it into a full time job.
Another potential problem is the concept of "civil forfeiture," where a building where illegal acts have happened can be judged Guilty even if the owners weren't involved. The owners lose their house to the government because somebody did something illegal while staying there.
Where's Roger? This is a Roger bit.
he's already done his bit for the month. let him have a nap.
No, I was think Dan would have done this.
this is definitely Daniel's area
Daniel did the Uber one, he must be on holidays
For sure, cant't stand these microhipsters and their unfunniness :-P
Used it once a few weeks ago, it was great. Much better than any other non-bankrupcy-inducing stay. We also had a kickass bondage orgy.
Glad you liked it!
...and that we forgot to blow out the candle....
That's one Nice looking kitty you got there...
In my experience kitten avatars are not unusual for people who host orgys.
True story: it was the one that ended in everyone going to a baptism pretending they weren't coated in jello.
Absolutely agree. I was a host for 4 years beginning in late 2008 and it started great and ended horribly with guests bringing cats that pissed all over my house and cost me $3000 in damages that Airbnb sided with the guest and gave me only $472. I had NUMEROUS damages like this. Then as a Guest i was kicked out of an Airbnb because I have a Service Animal. I've had him for 9 years and the Host didn't want dogs, so Airbnb forced me to go to a hotel which they paid for. But that is essentially allowing discrimination with the hopes that I would not use Airbnb again. Everything about Airbnb has gone down hill since the the first two years. In Brasil we had our Apartment robbed and $8000 in items stolen. Airbnb demanded we get receipts for everything and customs reports that we possessed it. Of course we didn't have that in the middle of a vacation. In the end, after months of fighting we got $1500 from Airbnb because we had $3000 in receipts and they depreciated the values of all of our items. The host is still a host. It was legal robbery. My gf had a guest who came from Ohio to Sunnyvale and immediately found a new boyfriend to stay with so she wanted to cancel her month stay, because he was cheaper or free. She refused because renting the room out that quickly would be hard and would result in a loss of income. So the girl called Airbnb and claimed that her other roommate was a sex offender and they immediately let her leave and gave her all the money. We provided evidence that he was not a sex offender (guilty until proven innocent) and still got nothing from Airbnb.
Now they are complicated to manage, they punish you for canceling for any reason at all, they have driven DOWN the prices of your houses and rooms with "SMart Pricing" and in most places in California they are as much as a Hotel. Who is winning here? Airbnb. They take 12% from the Host and 7% from the guest. Wow, 20% just for existing?
If you use Airbnb, you get what you deserve. Simple as that.
Aaahhh it's like Uber for apartments.
@@wetsponge175 both are actually great! prove me wrong.
*_Aye Air BnB is horrid because I have yet to find any drugs in the homes I've been renting... What a waste..._*
Have you checked under the couch pillows?
Look for false bottoms in the furniture
What! Really? I always find them in the cabinet drawer labeled "los Drugas"
go to Denver you fucking idiot
shake cleaning products bottles, if there is a rattle inside there is a hole to get your hand in behind the lable. or it could be in a drawer in the badroom
Ya, you definitely shouldn't rent out your spare room, because you never know what your tenant will do. However, if you open up a licensed motel, the tenants will be great!
Your hair got an inch shorter from how hard the entire video just sailed over your head.
VincenzoG Then explain.
+George Cataloni don't mean to jump in, but just happened to see this while scrolling and the "not so good" part is it is increasing a national housing market shortage which is an issue for the generations actually trying to buy houses. Also REGARDLESS of what happens to someone's home while they are in it the company has no accountability which becomes more of an issue with the hundreds of things that have gone wrong during these rentals. Sure not a problem for an individual, but en mass it has created alot of problems
Nate F How does flooding the market with more short term rentals affect the housing market?
Also, how does "no problem for the individual" translate to "problem en mass"? When you buy something on Ebay, for example, even though the ratings system is there to help you, ultimately, the risk of poor experience will always be there. You choose to use the service or not, and you choose how much risk is tolerable for you.
because the short term rental properties flooding the market would otherwise be properties for sale. There are groups buying a large number of properties, then renting them out through the service. By no problem for the individual I meant for individual renters sure they may get new rental options but if something has a negative effect on the housing market of a particular city/state that can have economic implications that affect the region rather than just individual renters
Still trying to figure out why there is an extra set of Great Lakes in Nevada, Northern Arizona and California's High Desert on the map behind Alex.
Also, what happened to the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers?
I am glad I am not the only one. Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty big ponds in the Great Basin, but the map is a huge exaggeration.
Thank you! I thought I was being a crazy person obsessing over that all video.
Same, but also that river that runs east-west through northern Africa. You'd think the Sahara desert would be less of a deal if there was just a major river running through that area.
Theres 'extra' bits all over that map because its 'cracked'
My building has 36 condos and only 7 of us are owners/long term renters. All of the other units have been turned into full time Airbnb apartments. My home turned into a hotel in less than a year. This is what happens without regulations. People abuse the system, and push out people living in spaces that used to have a sense of community.
LOUDER FOR THE SELFISH CAPITALISTS IN THE BACK PLEASE
I will never use Airbnb again after getting into a dispute with a "host" who kept me up most of the night. Although I had rented "the whole place," it was a cobbled together basement in-law and the loud hosts were over my head, running around, shouting, and playing video games into the night. Also, even though she'd been called a "super host," the place was filthy. I messaged the host and asked them to keep it down (how awkward is that?) and they didn't. I then messaged them that I'd be canceling my 2nd and 3rd nights. Her husband stupidly messaged me that they'd refund those nights... but then they strung me out for weeks until it was too late for me to post a negative review and refused to refund me. Airbnb did step in and get me my 2nd and 3rd nights back when they saw the messages and the photos I took. Horrible experience. I have traveled twice since and have booked real hotels where I'll be treated like a guest. I'll never go back to Airbnb.
I tried air b n b while traveling in Europe last summer. I have to say I wasn't impressed. Many of the places I stayed in were not as described or even pictured. The prices people charged for even small, studio apartments were as high if not higher than hotels in the surrounding area. Like the poster from Lisbon - it also drove rent prices in my area up really high, now property owners would like to rent to tourists rather than residents. Its a scam. They have no accountability and no safety standards. You have no idea who you're renting to or renting from. Many of the listings are fake and no safety standards are in place. Hotels, which are licensed, bonded, insured and taxed are much more reliable and professional. I like Booking.com, I found much better deals for hotels than air b n b.
Unfettered capitalism is great for everyone except most people.
I Agree with that.
why would anyone post a fake post??
alsi airbnb are more expensive than hotels???so you think ppl who rent there are fools who didnt compare prices?Also..is my country Greece who now has really low hotel prices the only exception where airbnb is even cheaper??
no f/in way! a friend needed a hotel for few days recently and the cheapest was 8euro for 6hours at night You can rent a 2room apartment in airbnb with25euro ,1 room ap with 20 and 1room with access to the kitchen with 15 plz find me a hotel at this price
Emily E, traveling in the US, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe, I've never seen a place where an average hotel-like Airbnb (studio apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom, comparable to a hotel room) was anywhere near as expensive as a hotel room. The only exceptions are when you're staying in an Airbnb that is a full home. Sure, a two bedroom/two bathroom house with a living room and full kitchen might be more than a hotel room. That isn't the case in my city, as I live in a touristy area with criminally expensive hotels, but I guess you might see that in some places.
My family has stayed almost exclusively in air bnb places (while traveling) for the last six or seven years and have never experienced a problem. We always stay in a private home. This sometimes is more expensive than a hotel room (but, usually is comparable), but we don't have to share a sleeping area with a child, we get a kitchen so save money on eating out, and have made friends with owners. I don't like the fact that rents can be driven up by air bnb, but as a service I love it.
Things are what they are, not what people say they are. Uber is a taxi company, Airbnb is an international hotel company, and they should be subjected to all regulations, taxes and responsibilities.
Not true. Read a bit about sharing economy please.
sharing economy is a scam please
Yes both Airbnb and Uber and all of em need to start paying their fair share instead of dropping all the fees on guests and those poor bastard hosts. Can you imagine being a host?
"sharing economy" only exist for those getting paid, the clients can suck it up because there's no one who regulates things legally
Uber is definitely a cab company but I wouldn’t say that about Air BnB. In they video they said the company is “Technically” a middleman. Uh... no, they are literally a middleman. They are more like Zillow and StreetEasy than they are the Hilton or even Motel 6.
This actually changed my opinion. I've always liked AirBnb, because the times I've used it as a guest, I've stayed with some wonderful people and only had good experiences. But you're right - it's got to be enormously bad for housing prices and availability. Good food for thought - thank you!
If this awful piece of propaganda changed your opinion, you should think one more time, maybe longer than 5 seconds.
If you think that government regulating every damn move of citizens is a good thing, if you think government have a right to tell owners of property what to do with their property, to whom and how to rent it - you don't understand the dangers of it. Today they tell you you can't rent flat you own via airbnb, tomorrow they will force you to give up your flat because someone else need it more. Read about communist Russia, bolshevism and collectivism if you want to understand dangers of such approach.
People aren't idiots, and airbnb (and similar platforms) are a great marketplace, where market works exactly how it suppose to work: hosts that are bad will get bad reviews and later won't get new customers, customers who are shitty won't be approved (if host decide to preapprove guests), and if a city have problem with too many tourists, then probably they get a lot of other benefits from these tourists, and in general, if cities have problems with housing they should build houses, not punish hard working people who are trying to make their lives better.
Very rich people don't care that much about airbnb, it's too much small work, they build hotels, or build and rent whole buildings. The only people these despicable regulations are fucking over is middle or upper middle class people, who might've worked real long to buy another flat to rent it, or where family over generations built something, some capital, so children could have a bit better lives. So think one more time before you jump to conclusions that airbnb is bad, because it isn't. What's bad is this dumbass propaganda video.
How fickle of you.
You are obviously easily influenced, I would avoid any serious decision making for the remainder of your adult life. I have never stayed at an airb&b before, but this is clearly a one sided hit piece and the fact that you were influenced by it is troubling to say the least
@@FryTV I sent my bad review a week ago and it still won't even show up under the host/property. They do NOT POST bad reviews, therefore they are dishonest. Airbnb ruined my families only vacation together where all of us were together. They are a very dishonest company and I wish I would have known the risk and had honest reviews to view before booking through this company.
Interesting though how housing prices got bad without the help of Airbnb. At the same time the hotel industry decided if you weren't rich, you can't travel.
Rent is too damn high!!!
Get a jobbyjob
@@thisismagacountry1318
Invest your money in the stock market, jobs are for suckers in the US.
@@bigsprucerabbitry6238 get a job to get money to invest
Don't think anyone is watching the video. Airbnb reduces housing stock and drives up rents!!
I remember a time of bouncing around Airbnb rentals for over a year. Almost all of the people we met using Airbnb were using Airbnb and endlessly searching for a home. Many had decided they had to move away.
THANK YOU for creating this. As a constant traveler, I always avoid Airbnb. Hosts are not trained in hospitality. They never buy nice mattresses no matter how high the price point of their listing. The furniture is always cheap IKEA crap.
What I love in travel: MORE UNPREDICTABILITY!
Dude I stayed in Paris at an Airbnb and the pillows smelled so bad I was so grossed out and thankfully my boyfriend at the time was a coder and was able to find that the camera inside the unit was active even though the owner said it wasn’t. The ex was able to decode it and shut it down.
I think if hotels are priced correctly, Airbnb wouldn't have become so big. Personally, the part that I don't like about Airbnb is that the host can back out after booking confirmation.
Hotels have to deal with higher regulations and service, that's why you pay so much. It's a costly service to maintain. The better they are, the higher the standards they hold, the higher the luxury experience they bring all equal the higher the price they have to pay... look at it this way, you'd pay more driving to a spar, having a personal chef who used high grade imported ingredients and a staff for your house that deals with keeping new bed sheets that you paid for on your bed every day and keeping everything absolutely spotless while you get a great view outside your bedroom window in a week than you would just renting a high end room for a week.
Airbnb doesn't do that...
Their niche basically lies on the fact that the whole "travelling is life" market scheme has made people who can't afford it want it so bad that they are willing to live in a stranger's house who's not regulated by inspectors to make sure that the standards are met thus less costs. And less costs almost always means less quality. And as a host, these factors mean your property will be used for lots of unimaginable activities... like the whole brothel situation.
I get what you're saying though, and i agree with you on a personal level.
I would have to agree. If hotels and apartments were cheaper the commotion would be less one sided. Heck I also think this has to do with how overly complicated jobs are to get. If getting licensed were as/more streamlined the becoming a AirBnb host or Uber driver the consumer and employee risks to reward would look less compelling.
So people cant have an emergency. Even president and company owner and dr have those even hotels have those.
Hotels and airlines overbook all the time. Nothing in life if for sure.
If Airbnb apartments were priced correctly the market would find them closer to hotel prices. As an apartment owner, I have to absorb the costs of their business in my apartment block along with all owners. In a hotel or licensed serviced apartment business those costs belong to investors only and their is onsite management is all part of the cost of running a business that produces a profit. These people are destroying our home life, because some people want a cheap holiday in my home - no one pays me for that nuisance, invasion. loss of security etc. etc. Alot of 'Airbnb Guest' do not even releaise they are entering our collectively owned private property when they come into our apartment blocks. Regards.
If my neighbor rented out his apartment on Air Bnb I would be pissed! It's just plain inconsiderate and rude to effectively invite strangers into a building without supervision, and just party and get up to all kinds of mayhem. That's a safety and quality of life issue, and airbnb is just another manifestation of the selfishness infesting Society
Kind of like an episode of Breaking Bad. Just rent the house and cook up some meth, maybe film some porn, or deal in stolen guns?... What could go wrong? Right?
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He sounds like a great person concerned so much for the good of the established business practices. such a caring guy.
I also had bad experience with Airbnb. The host was insulting us because we parked like a foot into her drive. She screamed at our door like a crazy maniac when we were sleeping peacefully "WHO? WHO PARKED IN MY DRIVEWAY? IS IT YOU!? WHOOOOOOOO IT IS YOUUUUU!" She was provocative asking if our parents don't teach us any manner and proceed to throw tantrums at us. We left immediately (in fact, we ran immediately) We couldn't believe that she only has hundred of good reviews and not a single negative one. It's not like we don't have money to stay at a hotel. Airbnb sucks and we will never use it again. We're the customer with money, and they're the seller that wants money, not the other way around. I don't get why Airbnb sides with bad hosts. They will eventually lose good customers.
My neighbours house is an Airbnb and I hate it so much. They litter, I'm constanly finding their garbage in my yard. The landlords never clean in between renters and they still have the "squeaky clean" badge on that rental property.
What a tragedy. I hope youre okay?
report them to airbnb. flush out the slumlords whether they're wannabe landlords or wannabe hoteliers
literally if they're a neighborhood menace as you say report them to your city council, if your neighborhood has a homeowners association, literally get them in trouble because all of our rents are going up because of them.
The ONLY reason why AirBnB became so popular was becase most hotels had unreasonably high prices, misleading room rates, AND municipal or city taxes (I'm pointing at YOU - NYC government) that were insanely high and unjustified. I've never been an AirBnB host or user, but I'm glad that there is more competition to wake up the hotel industry. And why is Cracked defending these big-business companies?
Mark Turner agreed how is $200+ a night even a thing? I'll continue sleeping in my car when I travel.
A well said and valid point
Yeah taxes aren't justified, until you get hurt, ripped off, or victimized, and you try to seek some redress or compensation. I guess as long as it only happens to others it's no biggie, until it is. Who needs empathy when you can save a few bucks, which you need because there has been no increase in wages in N America since the 1960's. Corporate feudalism is going to look so good on millennials once I'm too old to care.
I don't think they are defending the hotel companies. They even said why would we care that AirBnb disrupting the hotel industry. But as he said the problem has to do with safety and it's making housing more scarce and more expensive for regular people. I don't think he's saying it's necessarily better to stay in a hotel or that we need to boycott AirBnb. He is saying that AirBnb needs to do better at regulating BECAUSE it has become such a necessity.
+A3344 22 ... watch this video ... it is now ILLEGAL for someone to SLEEP in their car or RV in L.A. California
AirBnb is a minority in the problem of why housing costs are so high, there are so many things that make housing costs go up
i can name 5.
1.Minimum wage
2. Rent Control
3. Regulations
4.Excessive taxation
5. Labor Unions
This. I can only imagine there's a political motive behind all the AirBnB bashing.
rent controls aim to lock the price at an affordable level by making it illegal to charge more than a certain amount
people should be restricted to buying only 1 residential property (which you own for whatever purpose you want, including airbnb but you will not be able to buy or rent another one unless you sell it) and the government rents out all properties that are not currently owned at 30% of the persons income
that will serve to
> reduce taxes (since the government will have an entire country of rent money coming in)
> increase supply (since you wont have one person buying an entire apartment block or subdivision, like we have here in sydney)
> totally kill the h̶o̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶g̶o̶u̶g̶e̶ ̶f̶e̶s̶t private rental market (which will result in almost no foreign investment in the housing market, the chinese completely fucked sydneys housing market)
that should result in overall more affordability and almost no homelessness
Total lies, minority my backside..You must have a vested interest as you only have to look at the statistics of city's all over the world....
@@boyar1978 Sorry but you're going to have to explain to me how rent control, regulations and unions are making property more expensive
Im all for encouraging the entrepreneur but they really have had a huge part to play in why many of us can't afford to live where we grew up. So they move away from the cities they can't afford to live in or do business in which is gradually eroding the reasons ppl want to go to a city, all the shops aren't in one place anymore and there are far fewer ppl there to create a city atmosphere.
Yeah its more efficient distribution of resources. Lots of people try to prevent cities from becoming too expensive but if they didn't people would go elsewhere giving other cities a chance to grow and flourish.
Most of our parents had to buy houses out of cities (the middle class at least) it's a part of moving out. You save your money to buy a cheap place somewhere cheap where you can get a job and grow from there
@@dcgregorya5434 Yeh except now only the richest 10% will occupy the city and many of those don't live in nor will ever visit the city they own property in.
I feel like a lot of people are missing the point of this video. The video isn't attacking AirBnB for providing alternatives to hotels, it's attacking them for not caring enough about their facilitation to protect the renters. Regulation CAN be a good thing, especially if it holds people accountable, but the only ones accountable in this situation are the illegal renters or people who rent and don't take care of their property, and AirBnB walks away saying "Oh well, not my fault" despite the fact that they allowed that listing on their site. Moreover, it's not helping the housing shortage if everyone in your neighborhood would rather rent out 20 apartments than put them up for lease. However, they are NOT saying that the people who are renting legally on the site are bad at all.
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There are also a lot of people who understand the point of the video and simply don't agree with the argument that more regulations are good and will help. Rather, it is okay if people are allowed to choose to stay at a place or not at their own risk without having any safety net of government regulations. Government regulations always step into the middle of voluntary transactions and state what is allowed and it always results in fewer choices and higher costs. Regulations help the large established companies by providing a barrier to entry. That is why hotels are upset at Airbnb and why Airbnb has lobbied government to counteract the hotel lobbyists.
Also, I should be allowed to use my property how I want. Most people only complain about things that lower home values, but this video complains about values going up. You can always find something to complain about.
Many people like the feeling of safety they get at a hotel due to government regulations. No one is forcing them to use Airbnb so the proper course of action is to avoid Airbnb and warn your neighbor, but don't call for more regulations to control and restrict something you don't like. The call for more regulations is framed by saying you are concerned about the customers and providers of the service, but they seem to be happy with the way things are. Or it is framed in a way to say that Airbnb is evil because they made money and spent it on things you disagree with, therefore they deserve punitive regulations to put them in line.
If you want to use Airbnb, but only if they accommodate you, you can do that now without getting the government involved. If they honor your wishes, use their service. If they don't, go somewhere else. Doesn't freedom sound nice? No one denies that freedom comes with risks, but I say freedom is worth it.
Love how he talks about Sydney while showing an article about Victoria. Nicely done.
Editing mistake , don't get your panties in a bunch
Editing man
DAM YOU EDITORS
+QDJW Production I wasn't upset. I knew it was a mistake. Just laughing so hard right now.
Well StKilda "is" outside Sydney... but then so is New York and London.
This was pretty great, I hope it becomes a permanent show. Its like John Oliver albeit ore internet focused
Headlines we'd like to read:
FOUNDER OF AIRBNB MISSING IN UBER ABDUCTION.
AIRBNB CEILING COLAPSES ON FOUNDER OF UBER.
So you’d like to see two human beings to missing ?
Because you’ve been told that you shouldn’t like people who make money by a series of generations of adults who never bothered to check their own biases so never got the memo that they were being ignorantly pessimistic.
Also just plain ignorant.
Uber and Airbnb. Even in their worst state. Improve the lives of people 10 fold ;).
Prove. Me. Wrong.
Super random/unrelated: what the hell is with the weirdo-fictional “larger-than-Great-Lakes” bodies of water over in the western United States portion of the map displayed behind him throughout this video..? Is anyone else bothered by this..? Are those supposed to exaggerated rivers? What the hells going on there?
Probably the Communist flag standing tall in California 🤷♂️
That was the most concerning part of the video. I was looking for this comment thinking I would never find it because I went through 20+ before seeing this. I think the F stands for what Cracked thinks of its viewers, Fools.
I was staring at that the whole time
Looking at the rest of it, it's pretty clear that this is not supposed to be an accurate map. There is some extra landmass in southern Europe, a fictional river across northern Africa, that doesn't even lead to an ocean and a giant made up inlet west of Japan among other things. Everyone who thinks for a second that this is supposed to be anything else than an artistic interpretation of a world map clearly lacks basic education. If you believe someone is trying to fool you here, you clearly don't need anyone else besides yourself to fool you.
13:50 "The rents in the last ten years have skyrocketed." So they're 'supplementing' their income with AirBbB. Which caused the rents to skyrocket, and will continue to skyrocket them further.
Unless they can work more hours or get the money somewhere else it is the only solution for those in the middle class that can't afford their rents. A perpetual increase of rents, all thanks to Air BnB.
yeah, as if Airbnb is the only readon that rents go up...
How about it's time for big business puts some of their tax breaks into pay increases for workers and help the economy all around.
When pre roll ad is for "How to make money from Airbnb without owning property" Damn😂
Without air B&B all my films would be shot in my bedroom. It's great for getting locations when on a low ass budget
+Nic best thing to do is just message the owner and ask if they mind you filming in there
I rented a place in Stillwater, OK called "Stilly Cottage"...It was dirty and had bed bugs, no blinds...only thin see through curtains. The claw foot tub was peeling and there was a huge window in the kitchen that made me feel like I was staying in a fishbowl. I am so confused as to its 5 star ratings. I feel duped. I don't trust AirBNB at all. I am done.
This makes me even happier that I rage quit AirBnB before I even used it. It's a pity that small time people get hurt by this system when people like me refuse to use the app.
brilliant. higher journalistic standards and better fact checking than most...
i keep on using airbnb because i can't afford hotels
Use hostels.
@@Pseudynom no don't HOTELS are fucking terrible and this video has aged terribly USE AIRBNB. It's better for both consumers and the environment. Fuck the hotel industry and it's corporate doners.
@@neomanrex idk anything. could you explain why and how this video has aged terribly? thanks :)
People making money on their own??? STOP THE EVIL!
If it was just that. Airbnb is like a tumor on any city it takes hold in.
I lived beneath a condo that was an AirBNB for "tech bros" and it was a MISERABLE existence. The "guests" blocked open security doors to let in their friends, thought the hallways and elevators were a great place to throw trash, and that 3 am was a perfectly reasonable time to throw a loud party.
There's a place for that kind of behavior: it's called a "hotel".
this is my favorite kind of video you guys make because you're not super angry or shitting on people but you're still getting the facts across in an interesting way, which I really appreciate.
Cracked: Surprise! We Are Annoyed At A New Thing! (Next up: 6 Things We Are Annoyed With)
Government is not the only source of accountability. I wonder which hotel chain funded this video...
Is this the longest video Cracked has ever made??
Companies like Airbnb, Google, and Amazon are what dystopian future movies warned us about, and many dont seem to understand this fact, or the concept of it. Yeah we all love getting good deals, cheaper products, and cheaper services, but do we really understand or can we really fathom the cost of such services and products. Right now in 2021, all food producers or suppliers in the world are owned by basically 6 companies. These types of companies do offer cheaper products, but to many people never stop to think at what cost, and then we want to complain about jobs, wages and competition when we could all lower our uses of big companies and support local, small, or medium size companies. Until we all come to the conclusion that we are what is creating the problem it wont be solved and in fact it may be to late.
“Everything bad that can happen has happened in an airbnb”
And nothing bad has ever happened in a hotel, not a rape, no suicides, no murders and oh definitely no orgies or drug deals, no not ever!!!
Theresa Andrade not as much lol
Yeah I know, I literally just heard it.
Holy shit this is so in-depth. Bravo. That's some goddamn journalism shit right there
Comedians are the only ones telling the truth in dark times.
drinking game :
every time he says "airbnb" you have to drink. every time he says "regulation" you have to take a shot.
Yeah, not sure how this is the worst thing ever...
I wouldn't be surprised if our universe is a shared universe of shows and movies taking place on Earth and possibly other places
10:00 there is even a site called "airbnbvsberlin" which shows how they effect prices
This is the first time I have ever heard of Airbnb, and after reading the title I thought it was some sort of plane uber.
Usually when Cracked does an informative video, they make it funny. This was not one of those cases.
Cause they wanted it to be strictly informative
+QDJW Production it was hard to sit through though. This is cracked, forgive us for expecting some humor
+Aphro And you forgive cracked for trying to inform you of facts with a well-produced, free video on the Internet instead of a long article you wouldn't have read in the first place.
Right, this video was soooo boring
Just because it's free doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about it.
A huge rant about government not regulating a service that people choose to use while fully knowing the risks? Why does it need to be regulated?
Did you not watch the video? Its causing home prices to shoot through the roof and people can't afford to live there anymore.
Aside from it destroying the housing market, violating current hotel laws, and all the other reasons mentioned? Did you watch the video?
Cause monopolies are illegal
I'm with you clonesean8 said it better than me
+QDJW Production its not a monopoly, ever heard of a hotel?
Agree. I had some really bad Airbnb experiences and finally realise a simple fact, that if you were dealing with an unregulated & illegal business, there's nothing you can do when things go wrong, especially when it comes to safety. Risking your life and health for a few nights of cheap stay just dosen't make sense.
BTW the ones I stayed in has really high scores and positive reviews.
It's not even cheap anymore anyway. I don't see any difference in costs between Airbnb and hotels
I live in a vacation town controlled by the hotels. Here the hotels crank up the BS to increase tourism and business to the point where the businesses need to hire more employees than there are places to live. We literally have workers with full time jobs who are forced to be homeless despite have enough money to rent a place out. In a town like this AirBnB is a good thing.
Also, as someone who has worked in the hotel industry for over 10 years I can tell you that hotels are full of BS and lie all the time. Hotels want airbnb dead because its competition. Hotels generally work with each other to the point where they'll all gather in yearly meetings to work together and discuss what prices each of them will charge. When you decide to go for the cheaper 3-star instead of the expensive 5-star the 5-star will STILL get some of your money. Health and safety inspections are easily passed with bribes. Even the cleanliness of a hotel is BS. If you have issues with sleeping in a random person's USED bed then hotels arn't for you, even all the 5-star hotels don't wash the Duvet/Donor/Comforter, the pillows, the mattress pad, the glasses(properly), and the mattress. Oh and bed bug infestations happen once a month in EVERY hotel. Though you'll never get an employee to openly tell you all this because the hotel industry in North America is one of the worst for how employees are treated and if an employee dares to speak the truth they will be immediately fired and blacklisted from all but the smallest privately owned hotels.
I could go on forever about this but the sum of it is that if you have moral or hygiene standards for the businesses you give your money to a hotel is the last place you'll want to visit. Sure there's probably some legit hotels out there but most (especially chains) are in the business of selling you BS. Your best bet will always be small independently owned hotels, AirBnB, and camping.
Perhaps some motel owners should just close their hotel, move in, call it their 50+ room house, and then use AirBNB to rent out the rooms? That way they can avoid government regulation too! The thing this video misses is that it's the REGULATIONS that are the problem, not AirBNB.
It's both. We can walk and chew gum and admit it's both: no regs on airbnb, gov not building enough housing/holding back AFFORDABLE, NON-LUXURY housing. Also plenty of other countries regulate airbnb or ban it, watch the actual video.
@@KitC916plenty of governments are authoritarian dictatorships. No reason for us to be like them.
It's only a regulation issue because airbnb found a flaw in regulation and exploited it. It's no secret that companies like airbnb and uber simply exist due to technological evolution and so they're able to slip through the regulatory cracks because the regulations weren't designed to mitigate what can be done with current technology.
In any case, do you hold the con man blameless because he's technically playing by the rules while taking advantage of people that the rules were designed to prevent? It's ethically questionable regardless and regulations should and hopefully will change to stop exploitation like this.
@@seandobbins2231 but the con man is actually the government regulator, who should have never had the power to restrict motels in the first place!
I know Ari Teman -- the guy with the orgy in his room -- personally. The episode put him on a rental blacklist in NYC. You'll never meet a more hardcore foe of Airbnb.
Hey, can you get me Ari's phone number?
I'm asking for a...friend.
Well, that's weird. He runs companies. He's not that hard to find.
Oh was that a joke about how you want to be part of the orgy? He didn't run it himself. His Airbnb guest did it.
How is possible that "Airbnb helped double rent prices in 13 years" in the small Texas town? It was founded in 2008.
Anybody who can rent out their home to complete strangers deserves what's coming to them.
They distort the housing market, and governments and local authorities are in general too supine to regulate the housing market for people who really need homes, leaving it to those who want to make a quick profit out of it.
Have nothing to do with Airbnb in any way.
Watching this in 2019. AirBnB is awesome for the most part and none of the things predicted in this video have really affected my stats.
I see Covid-19 lockdown as a government punishment for Airbnb. I just hate that company.
Basically, like most of the "great" sharing economies, Airbnb is a two-sided market provider that extracts money from service providers from one side of the market bought by the other side of the market for the service of connecting the two. The app world has made it a lot easier to provide and access these kind of markets for individuals. And, as theory would predict for a now more atomistic market than before, it drives down the prices in the, in this case, short-time living/stay market. However, it drives up the prices in the long-time living/stay market as it united these previously separate markets.
Watching while staying at a place I booked through airbnb 😂
I think I saw your review ... lol ...
or may be it was someone else ... all you WHITE LADIES look the same to me
Gloria Magana how is it?
Me too 😂
Please use a hotel in the future.
@@dosilysmith8520 Why you gotta come in here with your race bullshit? Fuck off with that shit
I've never heard of this thing, I don't even know if it's in my country, let alone if it's regulated.
Then do some research
download the app and you'll likely be surprised at what you find.
During Irma, my house was completely destroyed and my family took refuge in an Airbnb. Little did we know it was a crack house. Literally a crack house, there were crack spoons, smoke marks, bullet holes...but it was the only place with running water and electricity. Someone actually attempted to get in while we were there. Luckily the gate lock withstood the beating. We were forced to stay there and when I spoke to Airbnb about the uninhabitable state, they said sorry and they are within regulations/the requirements of Airbnb. Airbnb is fucked up.
I have never used Airbnb or Uber, never will. I stay in hotels when I travel and I'm glad to. I help pay wages for people who are sending children to school and university, human beings.
We need an economy where you can work harder/more to get nicer things, and you can make a living on on limited hours. Our goal should be as much free time to enjoy family, friends, and life as possible.
Robotics will slowly displace workers. We have to find solutions to deal with dwindling opportunities beyond the "I got mine" attitude. Reducing the population, fewer hours with more pay, etc. It's a complicated issue that we need to consider now instead of waiting till we're well into the problem before admitting the problem even exists.
You're absolutely right there other wealthy countries that are giving to the people less hours so they can be with family spend more time in other things I think overworking like a slave it's not healthy for the mind .. it have to be a balance..
Some company: exists
Cracked: here's why this company was hand crafted by Satan
right? They've gotten super communistic in their rhetoric over the past ten years. Do you remember a time when cracked wrote funny and entertaining pieces to help us all forget about our troubles for a few minutes.........pepperidge farm remembers. But now all they ever do is get preachy and angry about pretty much everything.
I don't get the complaint about Uber wanting to go driverless at the end.
Driverless cars are _demonstrably safer_ AND a sound business choice. Or are you going to complain that there isn't any work for horses anymore?
When the automobile was being invented, these people would have stood up to defend the horse-and-buggy lobby.
I'd love to have automation everywhere,(Every step towards a Star Trek universe is a step forward to me.) the problem is the switch removes the income for those that did the job before. Not having money tends to be a bad thing and it's not like uber is going to keep paying the people from the increased profits of not having drivers.
Cody Collins Okay, so, how do you propose to resolve that problem?
Jobs go away. That's what happens. Does it suck for the people losing the jobs? Absolutely. There's no non-messy way to advance the technology though, and the world _with_ the technology will ultimately be a better one than _without._
Taxing the companies and providing a safety net of funds for basic living expenses and education for the unemployed so they can get new jobs and not be at risk of homelessness and starvation.
Cody Collins
That's a patch job. What happens when the same thing happens to the new jobs they found?
I'm all for a basic standard income- I just think it needs to come in a much more dramatic format to be effective (and will likely only be set up after the crisis it can solve).
Out of curiosity, have you watched Humans Need Not Apply?
I wouldn't be happy if Japan got rid of Air bnb there. For one they don't have the commercial hotel market like we have in the US. A lot of the hotels I saw were marketed as love hotels, ones where you pay by the night or by the hr. I also stayed in capsule hotels for around $70 a night for my three foot by seven foot "room." Sure there are traditional inns but at around $200 a night on up isn't affordable for some. I can rent out someone's house for $40 a night and I get a nice bed and in some cases a full house.
Regulation=good, innovation=bad. Brought to you by Hilton and Marriott
Too simple, it's never that simple.
Regulation = protects the people from greedy slags like you...Innovation is you lying when people are homeless as they can't find a place to rent...
Too much regulation=bad, no regulation=bad, innovation=gray area, why? Just because it's an innovation doesn't mean it'll make things better for all involved.
Clicked on this and emediatly got an Airbnb ad 😂
airbnb won lol of course they did they're great.
So now cracked is Last Week Tonight with not John Oliver.
So, did I get this right: Airbnb=bad; Couchsurfing=good
Yeah it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either. If I slip my couchsurfing host a $20 bill, it is functionally identical to AirBnB but even LESS oversight and LESS regulation.
+meatrace but you probably know them
Libby Bollinger Oh I thought you meant the website Couchsurfing. On that site, no, they're total strangers offering to let you crash at their place.
Most couches I've surfed were not people I knew, otherwise I'd probably be sleeping in their beds after fucking them in the pussyhole instead of trying to make their couches seem like a decent place to sleep.
I've couchsurfed twice. The first host had had over 100 people stay with him in two years. The next guy was very nice, but his place was kind of a dump. Either way, both places were a good experience.
I rented an Airbnb listing. A NIGHTMARE.
Really well done. With a few more laughs, John Oliver would have been proud.
Last week some airbnb guests burned down the owner's home in Derby Vermont. Bet that homeowner's insurance wont cover that.
Good thing Airbnb will cover it, dumbass! Learn about it before posting.
America may have to do a "brexit" with the "share economy."
Honestly, in a Democracy we shouldn't simply have the privilege to deeply sigh and lose faith in our government's ability to empathize with the common man, we should be able to do something (like this video) and more.
Also, don't all super villains believe they are a "force of nature," and are simply "honoring some 'invisible hand.'"
That should be considered a mental disorder in the DSM.
Good content.
Amen!
This is incoherent. I had to read it three times just so I could be sure this was incomprehensible. I mean, is this a diatribe on capitalism (from "invisible hand"), in favor of forced free speech, or what?
+Adam Billman get a job!
I understood what he was saying. Don't say that these changes are inevitable, they're not. People are being slowly suckered away from having any bargaining rights on their own. Airbnb, Uber, they're all fronts for slowly removing rights from the individual employee by putting them in contractor status. Yes, some people make some money, but at the cost of many, many, many others. Capitalism absolutely must be regulated if you have any care for your fellow man. Otherwise, I got mines right?
Actually... I think that IS in the DSM. It's the same (mental gymnastics) condition that a lot of serial killers use to fillet prostitutes, in which they reason that they're doing the world a favor by getting rid of them, in addition to granting mercy to the unclean by having the privilege of being killed.
I stayed on one of those once only, owner was good, clean house, great all around, left it just as gotten, clean, despite the owner told me not to clean since he had a maid, I have been to hotels, motels and the like, clean sheet? no, smelly rooms? yes whatever cigarettes or molds... got sick afterwards, where is that accountability? THEN...... the price, was $109.99 at the cheapest, plus six to eight other taxes..... which brought it to $215.00 or thereabouts per night....... I no longer travel, but i wish there had been airbnb during my road trips. I do not think is that bad.
I only rate my ubers and lyfts 5 stars because i know they punish everything else. If you even try to rate 4 stars, they ask "What went wrong?" Ermagerd, a less than flawless ride? Burn tha witch!
I think this problem is being blown out of proportion. There is a very limited number of people needing temporary accomodation at any time, so when supply and demand reach an equilibrium, housing prices will stabilize again. You can always build more houses, but you can't create more tourists.
The problem is more houses haven't been being built and rents are going up and up and people need somewhere to live more days of the year than they do need to vacation. So your hypothesis is actually completely wrong, and you better get on the right side of history which is supporting people who rent instead of supporting corporations.
The problem at its root is that hotels charge an arm and a leg. If hotels were more affordable then we wouldnt need homes to replace them for temporary housing.
the hotels are the definition of crony capitalism. they lobby local government to create regulations that lock out competition and conspire against the consumer. The sharing economy is amazing because it lets creative destruction go after crony industries and disrupts the most corrupt parts of the economy
+Luke g And fuck people over.
+Luke g
That's nice, except it drives up the cost of living significantly. You can choose to not use a hotel, but you can't choose to not pay for your home.
András Bíró If the prices of hotel rooms dropped, then airbnb would be forced to charge less to be competitive.
And on the otherside, the housing market benefits. More construction of new homes.
If you really think airbnb is wrecking havoc on the prices of real estate, then invest in construction!
To anyone with slightest understanding of economics it's clear that the massive housing shortages in cities like San Francisco, London, New York, etc. Are the result of NIMBYism towards new construction. It's basic supply and demand: if you have increasing demand (these are desirable places to live ) but artificially restrict supply then prices will rise. Blaming Airbnb for it is obvious scapegoating by the politicians and wealthy property owners who benifit from and are the cause of said housing restriction
I drove one of the founders. I wasn't sure how he wiped his own arse let alone ran a company.
@C e I'd prefer to be myself thank you very much.
This statement says more about your mental abilities rather than anything about that person, because him running a company is a fact.
@@Eltaurus I'm not sure who is running the company, he certainly had an inspiration that lead to the company.
@@kfstreich4787 Fair enough.
You know, the only part of the video i found compelling was the bit about the impact on the housing market, where people were buying up property and inflating prices. I think the home having to be your primary residence would actually be a smart bit of legislation.
Zoning laws in most localities prohibit any type of lodging uses in residential areas. Some places allow for an additional "incidental" use, provided that it's compatible with the neighborhood and is subordinate to the primary use (which is typically family residential). So yeah, it is possible to kick the investors out and still let homeowners occasionally rent their house out to tourists, all without writing a bunch of new laws.
Koert DuBois Now all we need to do is actually get law makers to do something... *cries*
You're right though. The laws of course make sense, you cannot prohibit someone from having a house guest. This really would be the smart way to regulate it. And probably one of the only absolutely necessary regulations.
Not really. Most people starting out buy houses in small and cheap markets. This is someone's property and they should be allowed to use it how they see fit. All these kids think they can move out and buy a house in a big city or large development are losing the point of moving away. You move to small town with cheap housing and a job. Then work up from there. This is house town turn into cities with large value.
Thank you! Giving a portion of your Robert Barron fortune to charity is no great virtue when The way you got rich is what created the need for the charity in the first place. It is possible to get rich benefiting others. People just don’t feel like it.
Ironically this video just answered all possible questions and concerns that anybody considering hosting an illegal AirBnb might have had. This one video has done all the reasearch needed to give the greenlight to anyone considering jumping in to hosting.
17 minutes? Lordy. Is cracked a comedy site or a documentary publisher?
Why is the government sticking its nose into Airbnb good? If someone wants to risk their safety freaking let them, regulations jack up prices. If the market calls for greater safety than greater safety will be implemented.
Ha, yes, lets let all companies disrupt all industries so that there are no more laws to protect people.
You do know that such a thing would just lead to corporatism right?
Air BNB my home? Do I want strangers screwing in my bed, throwing up on my carpet, having big parties and trashing my home? No, I don't think so.
A point on the other side of the coin: I live in Milwaukee and have purchased my home with a fixed rate mortgage that will be paid off in 11 years. I LOST property value in 2008 along with many other people. If AirB&B drives property values UP, isn't that a GOOD thing for me? I mean, if I don't sell my house, my costs won't go up because I'm locked in. If I DO decide to sell for whatever reason after a dozen years, doesn't that mean my house will be worth MORE? If the prices of rentals go up, will people still rent there? Won't they simply rent somewhere else?
Renting out rooms in flats is always a bit of a risk for the owners. I know a few people who rent rooms. They have told me about horror experiences. One friend rented to a man who burned out the flat within the first month. Their insurance paid for part of the damage. Another friend was not being paid for several months of rent. Because of tenant protection laws in his town, he could not evict the man. After he finally got rid of the deadbeat, he could still not get his money back. So, both sides of the rental deal can lose out even if AIRBNB is not involved.
Bed and breakfasts are the way to go, they are mom and pop places. Support them!
My neighbor started renting her apartment through airb&b this summer and thanks to her we feel like we live in a hotel now. Our kids are not safe in the communal areas and garden. There are new strangers caming in and out every week… so thank you airb&b. We’re desperately waiting for the new regulations..
AirBnB is great if you are going someplace touristy. We went Las Vegas a few months a ago. AirBnB someone's apartment just off the strip. The apartment had access via tunnel to the MGM and all its stuff. We paid about what the hotel was charging per night minus the tourist tax Extra person fees, and parking fees. Saved us hundreds. You check into the apartment like a hotel and they valet our car.
We are going to Disney world this fall. What it would have cost us to stay at a Disney resort for the four days we are getting a six bedroom house with its own pool, access to a bigger resort like pool. And we have it for 10 days. 10 min drive to the parks. We have the grand parents coming and we are sharing the cost. Thousand bucks saved and we get the rest of the time to enjoy Florida. Yes we don't get the perks of staying at a resort. But we do save a lot of money.
Me and wife have said we will never stay at resort again. Hotels are fine for road trips but never a resort again because of the cost. Yes you risk having a shitty place, but the same can be said of a hotel room. God knows I have had some shitty hotels. If you plan it out, and read the reviews which are more detailed then hotel reviews in my take. The owners of these places in the touristy places don't live there and are using them as an investment so it behooves them to have good reviews and experiences. Hell, some of the places in Florida we looked at are Disney or universal themed out .
Something to think if you are looking to save cash.
That's the point, how did you miss that? AirBnB is great for TOURISTS not local home owners and people who want to live in said city. AirBnB is part of the reason why the housing prices are going up. Something to think about when you are looking to not trash the city or town you are temporarily staying in.
The reason Governments don't like Airbnb is loss of income (taxes). In Europe, tenants who rent are not allowed to sublet. Again, more regulation. Airbnb may not be perfect, but the State has their own opportunistic nefarious reasons for wanting to curb and regulate. In this age of hypertourism and insane hotel prices, the concept of Airbnb is perfect. There needs to be some kind of insurance/deposit system to make sure tenants are not duped.
I will never get how Air BnB caused so much competition. The horror stories. I will stick with a hotel. No way I am stepping foot in an apt. That being said, it is amazing how hypocritical the gov't is. They love capitalism, but will make policies to protect certain industries.