Post by High Priestess on Mar 9, 2017 3:14:40 GMT
Airbnb eyeing the long term rental market....
www.cnet.com/news/airbnb-eyeing-long-term-home-rentals-craigslist/
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/airbnb-explores-expansion-in-long-term-home-rentals
I see this as both good and, potentially (extrapolating a bit) not so good. Good in that people already offer long term rentals on Airbnb, and there are guests using Airbnb to find long term rentals. Good in that there's a big market for that.
Not so good in that I definitely dont' want to see Airbnb and other platforms that require people to set up accounts to use their service, to put Craigslist out of business. A world in which you can't find a rental without using Airbnb (or some other platform on which you have to create an account and provide private information) is a very scary world to me. Yes Airbnb in some ways is safer than Craiglist, but you'll have a hard time convincing those who've had their accounts terminated by Airbnb (sometimes with no explanation!) of that!
Imagine a world in which you cannot find a long term rental because there is only one website to do that, and the company that runs that website wont' let you use it!
However I have to say I'd love to see the looks on the faces of people who've been so anti-Airbnb, arguing it "turns homes into hotels", coming to find out that in order to do a decent search for a long term rental in their city, they now need to look at Airbnb listings. Zap!!
www.cnet.com/news/airbnb-eyeing-long-term-home-rentals-craigslist/
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/airbnb-explores-expansion-in-long-term-home-rentals
I see this as both good and, potentially (extrapolating a bit) not so good. Good in that people already offer long term rentals on Airbnb, and there are guests using Airbnb to find long term rentals. Good in that there's a big market for that.
Not so good in that I definitely dont' want to see Airbnb and other platforms that require people to set up accounts to use their service, to put Craigslist out of business. A world in which you can't find a rental without using Airbnb (or some other platform on which you have to create an account and provide private information) is a very scary world to me. Yes Airbnb in some ways is safer than Craiglist, but you'll have a hard time convincing those who've had their accounts terminated by Airbnb (sometimes with no explanation!) of that!
Imagine a world in which you cannot find a long term rental because there is only one website to do that, and the company that runs that website wont' let you use it!
However I have to say I'd love to see the looks on the faces of people who've been so anti-Airbnb, arguing it "turns homes into hotels", coming to find out that in order to do a decent search for a long term rental in their city, they now need to look at Airbnb listings. Zap!!
