Well, I'm sorry now that I misphrased that. What I disagree with is that OPs review about the neighborhood was appropriate for the airBnB rental listing. The things that OP objected to were information about the neighborhood and not about the specific unit. Moreover, these were items for which the rental owner had no control over. The rental owner cannot change the crime statistics or the relative feeling of previous renters that the area was unsafe. The OP would need to search for the crime statistics or information about the Point Breeze neighborhood and get that information for herself. Rental owners should not be required to either provide or justify information about the neighborhood in their rental listings. That's just outside of the scope of a rental. If you have such concerns, you need to investigate the neighborhood and zone yourself. AirBnB provides the location map on each rental that shows you the neighborhood. With the zoom feature, you can find the location within a one block radius so you can definitely do research on the neighborhood if this is relevant to your rental. The fact that she didn't do that research and then blamed the rental owner for not providing that information and blames airBnB from blocking such reviews regarding subjects outside of the owner's control is wholly OP's problem. |
Dollars to donuts Roland Park. |
If that's the case, why did you book there? |
This is nonsense, the host chose to buy and continues to chose to operate a rental at this location. Airbnb obviously considers location a relevant factor as it specifically asks renters to assign a star rating to location when filling out a review. Furthermore nothing in Airbnb’s review guidelines prohibit reviews addressing location, this was a fabricated excuse. Since you are repeatedly posting here, feel free to review the guidelines and prove me wrong. |
Incorrect. |
Ok...you must be an Airbnb owner. It’s just my opinion, as a single female traveller, that Airbnb should allow reviewers to comment on safety of the location of the rental. Owners should be allowed to provide rebuttal if they want. If Airbnb is deleting reviews, a very obvious disclaimer that reviews cannot comment on safety of location, and are removed, would be helpful. |
Who are the AirBnB apologists on here? I really don't understand. Valid and truthful reviews should never be deleted from any site. Period. Fake reviews should never be posted. Period. Who disagrees with this? |
Oh please I’m a single female traveler and I do my due diligence. Do yours and stop being such a baby and Karen. You just ruin it for everybody. God you must be insufferable in real life. |
“Safe area” is not objectively defined. Even in the areas with highest crime, crime is still very rare. So a random person on the internet telling me somewhere is safe or unsafe makes no difference because I have no idea what their comfort level is. That’s the point - it’s unfair to the owner to diminish their business based on perceptions. |
OP posted a fake review. |
Exactly. There seem to be a lot of trolls and Airbnb hosts. |
All reviews are subjective opinions. You sound like you just don’t want renters to be able to provide any negative feedback. |
This thread reminded me of a Airbnb listing I came across in Europe where someone left a review saying that the area was undesirable with too many immigrants. It stayed up but I’m assuming that the host let it go since they were a supervisor and there were enough reviews commentating on the vibrant neighborhood. |
Superhost |
If you’re nervous about neighborhoods your best bet is a hotel. We went to one of Caribbean Islands in April and stayed in a neighborhood where there were no tourists, just people who lived there. There was a secured fence around, something the other houses didn’t have.
I couldn’t stand the idea of being at a cookie cutter hotel with a bunch of Europeans and Americans. It’s interesting to see how others live. Talk to different people. A lot of people would judge this neighborhood as “unsafe” because of the poverty and rundown houses. It was safe of course, no problems at all. If you didn’t even stay there I don’t think you have the right to deem the neighborhood as unsafe. |