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Post by High Priestess on Sept 14, 2016 14:31:53 GMT
Airbnb develops program for building owners -- which would allow them to work with tenants so their tenants can use Airbnb to sublet...but under this program, the building owner would receive some compmensation for allowing this...which currently they do not-- either when the tenant sublets legally or illegally on Airbnb. fortune.com/2016/09/13/airbnb-building-owners-program/ |
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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Sept 14, 2016 15:53:26 GMT
It's so funny that some people (not the sane people here) still think of Airbnb as this kumbaya "sharing" company - it's got this incredible mythology around it. It's actually a very smartly calculated and planned marketing strategy and it's fascinating to me how it's evolved and keeps evolving. I sometimes get grief as a multi-listing host that I'm "not what Airbnb is about" because I'm not sharing my bathroom with a wonderfully curious young German girl who wants to know the best place for a cafe con leche. I've been there, done that, and now am doing something different.
Airbnb is about making money!!! I am about making money!!! So the partnership continues....
This newest venture, of partnering with building owners is further proof that this is an absolute for-profit, and BIG profit company. They have lost so many commercial hosts in major cities, and they have to replace that revenue with some other scheme. It's great to cut 1,0000 "bad actors" in New York, but the pinch is felt months later when you now have to recruit 10,000 new hosts to replace that lost revenue.
I hope that my landlords don't get wind of this scheme! They'll be hitting me up for their vig.
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Post by High Priestess on Sept 15, 2016 2:19:36 GMT
I think what you say is true Maria....and actually if one looks at Airbnb that way, as a big company out to make money...then all the talk about a special "mission" about "belonging", which apparently requires nondiscrimination machinery in order to ensure "belonging", just loses its basis.
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