[zamnos]

What word would you like to use for a gathering of a dozen or so adults, meeting for one or two nights (colloquially known as Friday and Saturday, because adults have jobs) where there is zero damage to the property? Because most people I know would call that a party.

Most people I know also don't own ridiculous mansions, so have been using AirBNB to rent locations for these events (again, causing no property damage). They are fine switching to VRBO/whatever but these are expensive locations so it seems strange that Airbnb wouldn't want the revenue.

[ehutch79]

AirBNB was originally designed around renting a room in the place you live. More akin to couchsurfing then a hotel. So while it's pivoted, there are side effects they wern't really setup to think about.

I wouldn't even say damage is the main problem, so much as neighborhoods being descended upon by random people who don't care about the neighbors or their sleep.

Beyond just the summer, a lot of housing is being reallocated from long term, traditional tenants to airbnb, driving up rent prices.

[mrguyorama]

This was always a farce though. At the size they were trying to push themselves to be, there were never enough couch surfers to support that business. Just like how Uber's "just share rides" was always nonsense.