Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
AIRBNB HOSTS ARE melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20, quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday. Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up after themselves.
“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,” one person wrote in Airbnb’s official forum for hosts. “The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”
In the early days I really didn’t mind loading the dishwasher and throwing a load of towels in the washer before I left. I’m nice and not a slob. Now so many owners farm it out to management companies, hired maintenance workers and cleaning services. On top of that, and probably because they are paying the cleaners by the hour, they want to hold your guest rating hostage to make you do the work. If they want to charge that much more than a hotel nowadays, I want to get hotel service.
I mean the owner will be passing the cost on to the renter regardless. People might be glad they can’t be forced to do the work now, but they’ll be paying someone to do it for them.
Maybe just pay a hotel instead of supporting this horrible arm of the real estate industry.
Perfect. They should get even more expensive than they are now.
We always were… No such thing as a free lunch.