[juskrey]

After our recent month-long rent in US the host tried to bill us for some minor (and likely preexisting, anyways, who actually even tries to notice things like cooking pot wear on check in?) wear and tear in total for $1000 or so. Was a bit shocking since we are using the service for years and are far from destructive tenants. Airbnb sided with us and cancelled their request. What else to tell? Apparently Airbnb does not like to lose its own money, but also does not allow to extract unjustified value like that.

[modo_mario]

Even if you'd get some wear on your stupidly expensive handmade Japanese chef knife and overpriced cast iron pan and whatnot...why leave that in the place you rent out full time?

There's no way you get to 1000$ wear easily on multiple small things unless you have someone's making an effort to be trash or breaks a large appliance in which case it's provable and Airbnb probably knows it.

The story of someone getting scammed out of a lot of money like that can spread.

[juskrey]

I have replied in the same manner: they should remove their petty items and include regular wear in the rate instead of bothering people with "$50 water stains" and such. Luckily airbnb also thinks so.