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I took a trip out to the Rockies earlier this year, and booked an AirBnB. The listing was for the basement of a house where a lovely old retired couple lived. It was decorated beautifully, and we got to chat with the couple every now and then. They gave us recommendations to a farmer's market which was pretty cool.
It was the first time I've ever booked an Airbnb that was true to its original mission. This is what AirBnb should be - renting out spare rooms - and not a turn-an-apartment-unit-into-a-hotel thing.
That basement should be someone's house.
If they are using Airbnb then they are already a landlord.
Hotels are for short term, houses are for living.
Ah stop, I get the intention but b&b's are a thing and always have been. Wanting to sporadically have a visitor in your retirement shouldn't require becoming a permanent landlord.
People should not be running hotels in residential areas.
If the owners are living in it at the same time, and you're renting out a room, that's hardly a hotel.
The original comment was a basement that they were renting out short term.
I don't see how that matters. A spare room is a spare room whether it's in the basement, the first floor, or the attic.
Where I'm from basement suites are pretty popular. It's a fully contained suite in the house.
What used to be fairly cheap accommodations are now being rented out as hotels and it's causing a lot of housing problems. If it's just a room in a basement that's one thing but it doesn't sound like it is.
Do you understand where I'm coming from now?
I understand that. OP expressly described this basement experience as "renting out spare rooms", though, so I hope you'll understand why I'm treating this as a spare room being rented out.
I live in London and am very familiar with the issue of affordable self-contained accommodation being flipped into overpriced Airbnb units, and I would agree with you that such units should be retained as residential housing.
I still stand by houses are for long-term housing and hotels are for short term rentals.
I enjoy the discourse in conversations like this but I think airbnb is a blight in all forms.
It's so fucking obnoxious the way people try to make outlier situations as if it invalidates the argument. You know god damn well the situations you're describing are an extremely tiny percentage of airbnb usage (honestly if any at all). Don't be daft.
I like the part where you called me a troll because I didn’t want to DM with you.
Real classy buds.
in a case of a house shortage, maybe.. but The issue is not that there is a house shortage. It is that the houses are not being used as houses. There are more than enough houses in almost every city to home everyone and several times over to house the homeless. But that isn’t what the houses are being used for. If they were then yeah, they’d have the space likely to rent out like an Airbnb. But there should be no homeless anywhere if there’s enough rooms to pull off Airbnb. But no one is looking at the homeless as an issue before starting an Airbnb.
Airbnb is unchecked capitalism that got way out of hand. It’s very fucked up to call this a society anymore. This is hell.
*some neckbeards house