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.”

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[–] 113 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Worse - many use the ability to require cleaning up after yourself with the threat of fines if not done at all to always charge guests exorbitant fees even when they clean, claiming impossible standards weren’t met - all to grift and stuff pockets in order to have guests pay their mortgages on homes they otherwise couldn’t afford to play speculative investment games on, and to end up with massive profits to pay themselves for work they largely didn’t do themselves. They’re scamming, they saw how corporate Americans and the ultra wealthy scam workers and wanted their own version of it. They’re pissed they have to become workers themselves.

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