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.”
Maybe don’t let strangers stay in your home then? That’s what hotels are for dummy.
I hired out my personal space and someone paid and used it. GASP, I didn’t mean for them to actually use it, I just wanted them to give me the money and clean.
Wasn’t it supposed to be that way at first? Renting an extra room in your house
Yes, in the same way that Uber pretended that their service was a way to find people to carpool with and not a taxi service