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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ignore the PP.

with all Airbnb dealings, it's really important to have a written record of everything. I was a host for 3 years (rented out a bedroom in my house) and I needed to rely on written communication in dealing with Airbnb quite a few times. I would stick to my guns and just say that you prefer to have a written record. if you get a bad review, you can speak with Airbnb directly - they always encouraged me to stay off the phone as well.[/quote]

Thanks PP. I just hope we don’t get there and find unannounced rules or limitations or that this is something sketchy. I got a weird vibe from the whole thing, he wants to make sure we will be happy with the house - he didn’t say what he wants to get from the call other than that. And it’s one thing to offer a call, but the follow ups makes it seem like he really wants that call. Further info is that he has a 5.0 rating but only 10 ratings so a newer listing it seems it’s not constantly rented out. It was an expensive listing - 700/night for two bedrooms. But downtown and nice.

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Wasn’t the intent of AirBnB to get to know strangers / meet new people???[/quote]

perhaps originally, but now AirBnB has driven property speculation as investors buy properties to rent them out at high rates short-term to tourists, leading to a smaller, more expensive rental market for regular folks.  Kudos to DC and Barcelona, among other cities, for banning Airbnb![/quote]
Please - it should be a free market. Instead Dc bowed to the hotel lobby who pushed to ban short term rentals so they could keep their rates high. This is actually detrimental to dc bc tourists can just stay in va or md so the city is losing out on tax dollars. [/quote]

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