r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 7h ago

Society New Airbnb rules ban hosts from making guests wash dishes, do laundry & other checkout chores

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/new-airbnb-rules-ban-hosts-from-making-guests-wash-dishes-do-laundry-other-checkout-chores-3420832/
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u/Chiiro 7h ago

I once saw someone reacting to one of these Airbnb hosts short form videos and one of the hosts insisted that the people staying there needed to sweep and mop all the floors, wipe down all the counters, take out all the trash and do all of the laundry including all of the bedding. They were also charging $1,200 a night.

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u/VictoryVino 6h ago

Genius, get paid for others to maintain your property.

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u/Bad_Day_Moose 4h ago

roof needs new shingles!

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/Bad_Day_Moose 4h ago

$3300 waste disposal fee because you didn't bring the old shingles to the dump.

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u/ditka 27m ago

That grass isn't going to cut itself, you know

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u/ares7 6h ago

I have a theory that these are the same people that get mad if you don't return your shopping cart.

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u/NarwhalSquadron 5h ago

Returning shopping carts is a completely different matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_theory?wprov=sfti1

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u/Alkein 5h ago

no, it'd be the other way around and these would be the people who leave them all over because its "not their job" to return the cart. Doesn't matter cleaning their own property WOULD be their job, their inflated ego's dont work that way, everything is someone else's job to them.

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u/trap4pixels 4h ago

People who do not return carts are disgusting

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove 6h ago

Ill start a dishwasher, take the trash out, gather the towels in the tub and strip the linens. Thats it. It also what I do in a hotel, minus the dishwasher. I'll even go as far as starting the towels in the washer, but only if required.

The rest of this is absurd.

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u/WazWaz 5h ago

You do all that in hotels? Why? People are paid to do that.

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u/Snow88 4h ago

Sometimes part of packing up your shit is getting all the not your shit out of the way. 

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u/CherryLongjump1989 41m ago

This involves throwing the bedsheets into the bath tub?

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u/StarGazer_SpaceLove 4h ago

Because i clean up after myself in general. At a hotel its towels and gathering trash. Do you generally just leave trash and towels everywhere at home? Why elsewhere then?

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u/WazWaz 4h ago

No, I leave the towels on the towel rack and the trash in the bin, not "everywhere". Can you tell the difference between that and taking out the trash in a hotel?

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u/teetheyes 2h ago

Did you interpret this to mean he also breaks into the employee areas and starts the laundry at the hotel in addition to asking the front desk for directions to the dumpster to take out his trash, because that's clearly not what he meant

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u/WazWaz 2h ago

Stripping linens and "taking out the trash" are pretty clear. No, I didn't make up "breaking into the laundry" or "leaving trash everywhere". I meant what I literally said, and I assumed they meant literally what they said.

No strawmen required.

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u/mottledmussel 5h ago

All that stuff was also the norm for rental houses well before AirBnB existed.

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u/Nothatisnotwhere 4h ago

I remember doing this when me and my firends got to borrow a friends grandmas place for a city festival. We left it spotless. But we got to stay there for free during a time where all hotels were charging extra, so we were very gradeful they let a bunch of 20 year olds going to a festival stay there and repaid with probably the most extensive cleaning i have ever done.

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u/swarmofbeees 5h ago

Ok that’s excessive. Doing the dishes and strip the beds fine. Even taking out trash and putting it in a bin, especially if you’re there for trash day, fine. Anything else is dumb.