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sirzoop t1_iyyli5y wrote

Reply to comment by upnflames in Airbnb likely to lose more than 10K listings in NYC under tight new rules by NecessaryMistake9754

Hate to break it to you but most people use the platform for 1-3 night stays. If the point is to rent them a week at a time they are basically saying fuck off to a majority of people who want to use the service. Why do you think we are seeing such a huge decrease in bookings recently ?

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throws_rocks_at_cars t1_iz151qr wrote

I’ve been living out of AirBnBs for the last 10 months and you are both correct.

Many people use them for 1-3 days but that is the least cost-effective way to do it. If you are using an AirBnB for any period less than 2 weeks then you are just burning money. That doesn’t stop people from doing so, and it’s because the AirBnB UI is “software company” level, and, like Robinhood to other banking apps, Coinbase to a local wallet, a good UI goes a LONG way. Hotels aren’t clustered this well and they are typically spread among their various apps and websites, all of which are worse than AirBnBs user experience.

Then you get there and realize the $200 cleaning fee that the previous tenant paid was obviously NOT used for anything because every single corner is full of spiderwebs and dead bugs and for $110 a night they didnt even both refilling the crusted-over hand soap dispenser in the bathroom..

Very sick of AirBnBs in America. In Mexico (urban areas and beach towns), it’s still great, and if you’re looking for a really unique (and expensive) architectural find, AirBnB is still the way to go in the US, especially around national parks. The real move is to follow travel nurse advice if you want to do month-long traveling engagements. But most of these places list through AirBnB anyway and once you find the place you can do some research and find their website and book directly through their own site instead of letting AirBnB take a cut.

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