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.”
I’m not saying there aren’t unreasonable demands at some airbnbs/vrbos/etc, but every time I hear people talk about this it’s just things like dishes and trash, and maybe stripping the bed. Pretty much every vacation in my life that I have been on I have had to do these things. They aren’t difficult and they don’t take long. If you’re staying somewhere for a while, you’re probably doing the dishes anyways because you run out. I just don’t get why people complain about these super minor things.
And just to reiterate what I said in the first sentence, I know some rentals take it way further than this and do have truly unreasonable demands. It’s just that a lot of times when I hear people talk about this it’s something simple like that. It takes like two minutes to strip a bed. It takes like five minutes to load and start a dishwasher (which you’re probably already loading it as you go anyways, so less). Taking the trash out is usually easy too since you’re leaving anyways, it’s sort of on the way usually.
when the comparation is hotels those are outrageous demands