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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 5343381, member: 5037"] Because, as I alluded, air bnb has gone full capitalism. It’s not just for someone with a vacation cottage in the mountains collecting dust, nor a granny flat in the city they rent out for the occasional weekend. People have exploited the service and their local housing to turn vacation rentals into their entire money-making venture. This is what has driven the now-severe anti-tourism sentiment along coastal Spain. I’ve even heard of people renting dozens of apartments under the guise that they would be the tenants; then throw a bunch of TJMaxx clearance stuff around each place, and essentially sublet each place with vacationers to make money. And now that people are using air bnb less over cost and cleaning expectations, these people (rightly) are getting screwed with dozens of landlords expecting rent. So now, when people rely on profits their rentals generate to support themselves, they’ll cut corners or add charges wherever they can. That means expecting guests to do x/y/z, and it’s been a slow creep of asking more and more. I’m sure it’s so that they can pay a professional cleaner less (if at all). I also know that these people try to line up guests as consecutively as they can, so having a guest spend their last couple hours cleaning under threat of being charged additional nebulous amounts makes sense to them, to keep the turnover as smooth as possible. …they have your credit card lol they’ll charge you extra after the fact [/QUOTE]

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