A hotel is now often cheaper than an AirBnB, and you don’t have to pay extra for cleaning, nor do you have to clean the place.
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(Not a hotel owner, just fed up with airBnB)
I live in a county getting fucked by landlords turfing out longtime, even life long renters to turn them into an Airbnb, then asking for £4000 a month in rent during the off season.
Alarm? Now? We’ve known about this for fucking years – landlords can make far more cash using Airbnb than having tenants and it’s far less hassle for them. Which means, in turn, they buy up a lot of properties in areas such as Cornwall, turn them into trendy getaways, rent them maybe 3 months a year and completely fuck up the local renting *and* housing market as local people can’t get a look in.
AirBnB being so unregulated is ridiculous – it’s a no brainer for landlords right now but everyone can see how it spirals out of control. You should need licencing etc in the same way a hotel/traditional B&B does.
Just as I can’t turn my house into a pub because of planning laws, converting use of a home to a mini-hotel should require planning permission. Airbnb needs to die.
I’ve heard the market’s collapsing.
This is purely anecdotal – mostly from reading Airbnb social media & subreddits, but a lot of Airbnb landlords seem to be panicking as they’ve over leveraged themselves and people aren’t using the services anymore.
This seems to be driven by people abandoning Airbnb due to hidden prices & extra work (you must wash all sheets, tidy garden etc). The cost of Airbnb has hit similar levels to a cheap hotel room – but hotels don’t have the added hassle. Additionally the market has been over saturated.
Added to all of this is the downturn in the economy and it looks like there could be a rapid collapse.
I’m sure this has been said ad nauseam, but the fact that when you use an AirBNB you have to make sure it’s clean before you leave, and then pay a seperate cleaning fee is a fucking joke.
I don’t mind paying an acceptable rate for an annexe/flat to holiday in, but when the fees end up being ~20% extra it really doesn’t make it an attractive prospect.
That said, there’s a converted private jet in Wales that looks cool AF.
Edit ad nauseum
Our little town that has literally nothing and nothing significant around it to vacate an AirBnB, and a few have pop up.
A barbers in the town centre, turned into an AirBnB which charges £166 a night and is “medieval/harry potter” styled. If you look at the pictures, it looks modern as fuck and has 3-6 framed pictures of harry potter related stuff.
Being on the border of Wales, you can get cheaper and much, much nicer scenery in the countryside, not some shitty AirBnB in a town.
Which is a shame because it could have been used as more appropriate thing such as a shop/stayed as a barbers etc.
Airbnb is weird these days – it used to be a great alternative to rip off, run down, half empty hotels. There were bargains to be had, and some lovely properties available at reasonable prices.
Now, there is poor availability and the prices are eye watering. I went to Cornwall last summer, and the “low end” options were converted camper vans for £100pp per night – we got a premier inn instead for £67 per person per night.
The model has changed from “get extra money for that 2nd property you own which you otherwise wouldn’t be using or making money from whilst providing accommodation at below market rates” to people buying properties for the specific purpose of earning passive income.
My last Airbnb in Cornwall was a family home. The family moved into a tent on friends land for the summer to rent the house. 4k a week. They made their whole annual income from it.
This is just sad. I mean I’d like to run a small B&B/Airbnb one day out of an annexe (or similar) on my property in the “old fashioned” way. But when I tell people what I’d like to do everyone just assumes I mean buy another property and leave the management to some company… just shows how big a problem this is becoming.
Another ask for forgiveness start-up, showing to actually make headway in this country you have to break laws and take from the local communities
I wonder if this is due to the cost of living? For example I could rent my place out for £300 a night and go stay with my parents for a couple of nights a week and make £2.5k a month to earn extra money to cover heating etc if I needed to
Amazing news, I am not using hotels ever again, it is just so much better deal. For a price of a tiny room I recently got a 3 bedroom house with hottub for holidays 😁
My wife and I saw this happen in Margate the last couple of years. It’s absolutely shocking how the locals have been priced out of the area with London prices. Commercial properties are snapped up and if they’re not turned into yet another coffee shop, its a yoga studio. Then a flat gets snapped up and more often than not becomes an AirBnb. The locals are absolutely starved for something of substance that doesnt cater to the London crowd
They can pop up all they want, given they charge a shitload more than a hotel, have absurd rules to bill you for anything and everything and silly cleaning fees they won’t last long. This comes the day after a UK post about airBnB owners not getting booking for months and every comment being “hotels are cheaper, no hidden fees”
Absolutely sick of this Air B+B trend. It’s gutting my town, along with many other towns, cities, and villages. Houses getting sucked up over the net by people with loads of money already, who then deny housing to the people of that area, push rent up in other available houses (supply and demand etc) and basically force the young people from their own hometowns because parasitic landlords have infested our world.
I agree with above poster, should be made to register as a business and pay full council tax on all properties, plus business rate. Let’s make this Air Bullshit + Bullshit extinct.
I’m not surprised. With prices going up, people are getting more concious about cutting back on going on holiday. It’s a lot cheaper to self cater in an ABNB than stay at a hotel, and/or go abroad
Hotels have to meet strict standards, not least meet strict fire safety and health and safety regulations. Fire risk assessments, emergency exit signage, fire alarms, emergency lighting etc
How do AirBnB get away with it?
Sooner or later, something bad will happen. And like anything, it will take a tragedy like a fire and deaths for someone to actually ask what safety standards these AirBnB’s were being held to.
There are now several near me, alongside the holiday homes and those now owned by people who have retired to the area from out of town. Young local people basically have no chance of getting a property anymore but older people seem oblivious to the issue of generations being priced out of the area.
Some companies have been buying up houses and turning them into airbnbs to sod over locals and potential buyers so they can flip a profit at eye watering prices.
This is something that needs to die. Fucking sickening greed at people’s expense.
Alarm? Says who? Question what you read people, most of the time it’s to fire you up.
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Just a reminder folks.
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A hotel is now often cheaper than an AirBnB, and you don’t have to pay extra for cleaning, nor do you have to clean the place.
​
(Not a hotel owner, just fed up with airBnB)
I live in a county getting fucked by landlords turfing out longtime, even life long renters to turn them into an Airbnb, then asking for £4000 a month in rent during the off season.
Alarm? Now? We’ve known about this for fucking years – landlords can make far more cash using Airbnb than having tenants and it’s far less hassle for them. Which means, in turn, they buy up a lot of properties in areas such as Cornwall, turn them into trendy getaways, rent them maybe 3 months a year and completely fuck up the local renting *and* housing market as local people can’t get a look in.
AirBnB being so unregulated is ridiculous – it’s a no brainer for landlords right now but everyone can see how it spirals out of control. You should need licencing etc in the same way a hotel/traditional B&B does.
Just as I can’t turn my house into a pub because of planning laws, converting use of a home to a mini-hotel should require planning permission. Airbnb needs to die.
I’ve heard the market’s collapsing.
This is purely anecdotal – mostly from reading Airbnb social media & subreddits, but a lot of Airbnb landlords seem to be panicking as they’ve over leveraged themselves and people aren’t using the services anymore.
This seems to be driven by people abandoning Airbnb due to hidden prices & extra work (you must wash all sheets, tidy garden etc). The cost of Airbnb has hit similar levels to a cheap hotel room – but hotels don’t have the added hassle. Additionally the market has been over saturated.
Added to all of this is the downturn in the economy and it looks like there could be a rapid collapse.
I’m sure this has been said ad nauseam, but the fact that when you use an AirBNB you have to make sure it’s clean before you leave, and then pay a seperate cleaning fee is a fucking joke.
I don’t mind paying an acceptable rate for an annexe/flat to holiday in, but when the fees end up being ~20% extra it really doesn’t make it an attractive prospect.
That said, there’s a converted private jet in Wales that looks cool AF.
Edit ad nauseum
Our little town that has literally nothing and nothing significant around it to vacate an AirBnB, and a few have pop up.
A barbers in the town centre, turned into an AirBnB which charges £166 a night and is “medieval/harry potter” styled. If you look at the pictures, it looks modern as fuck and has 3-6 framed pictures of harry potter related stuff.
Being on the border of Wales, you can get cheaper and much, much nicer scenery in the countryside, not some shitty AirBnB in a town.
Which is a shame because it could have been used as more appropriate thing such as a shop/stayed as a barbers etc.
Airbnb is weird these days – it used to be a great alternative to rip off, run down, half empty hotels. There were bargains to be had, and some lovely properties available at reasonable prices.
Now, there is poor availability and the prices are eye watering. I went to Cornwall last summer, and the “low end” options were converted camper vans for £100pp per night – we got a premier inn instead for £67 per person per night.
The model has changed from “get extra money for that 2nd property you own which you otherwise wouldn’t be using or making money from whilst providing accommodation at below market rates” to people buying properties for the specific purpose of earning passive income.
My last Airbnb in Cornwall was a family home. The family moved into a tent on friends land for the summer to rent the house. 4k a week. They made their whole annual income from it.
This is just sad. I mean I’d like to run a small B&B/Airbnb one day out of an annexe (or similar) on my property in the “old fashioned” way. But when I tell people what I’d like to do everyone just assumes I mean buy another property and leave the management to some company… just shows how big a problem this is becoming.
Another ask for forgiveness start-up, showing to actually make headway in this country you have to break laws and take from the local communities
I wonder if this is due to the cost of living? For example I could rent my place out for £300 a night and go stay with my parents for a couple of nights a week and make £2.5k a month to earn extra money to cover heating etc if I needed to
The algorithm has quite the sense of humour
[https://postimg.cc/fk7HhGcr](https://postimg.cc/fk7HhGcr)
Amazing news, I am not using hotels ever again, it is just so much better deal. For a price of a tiny room I recently got a 3 bedroom house with hottub for holidays 😁
My wife and I saw this happen in Margate the last couple of years. It’s absolutely shocking how the locals have been priced out of the area with London prices. Commercial properties are snapped up and if they’re not turned into yet another coffee shop, its a yoga studio. Then a flat gets snapped up and more often than not becomes an AirBnb. The locals are absolutely starved for something of substance that doesnt cater to the London crowd
They can pop up all they want, given they charge a shitload more than a hotel, have absurd rules to bill you for anything and everything and silly cleaning fees they won’t last long. This comes the day after a UK post about airBnB owners not getting booking for months and every comment being “hotels are cheaper, no hidden fees”
Absolutely sick of this Air B+B trend. It’s gutting my town, along with many other towns, cities, and villages. Houses getting sucked up over the net by people with loads of money already, who then deny housing to the people of that area, push rent up in other available houses (supply and demand etc) and basically force the young people from their own hometowns because parasitic landlords have infested our world.
I agree with above poster, should be made to register as a business and pay full council tax on all properties, plus business rate. Let’s make this Air Bullshit + Bullshit extinct.
I’m not surprised. With prices going up, people are getting more concious about cutting back on going on holiday. It’s a lot cheaper to self cater in an ABNB than stay at a hotel, and/or go abroad
Hotels have to meet strict standards, not least meet strict fire safety and health and safety regulations. Fire risk assessments, emergency exit signage, fire alarms, emergency lighting etc
How do AirBnB get away with it?
Sooner or later, something bad will happen. And like anything, it will take a tragedy like a fire and deaths for someone to actually ask what safety standards these AirBnB’s were being held to.
There are now several near me, alongside the holiday homes and those now owned by people who have retired to the area from out of town. Young local people basically have no chance of getting a property anymore but older people seem oblivious to the issue of generations being priced out of the area.
Some companies have been buying up houses and turning them into airbnbs to sod over locals and potential buyers so they can flip a profit at eye watering prices.
This is something that needs to die. Fucking sickening greed at people’s expense.
Alarm? Says who? Question what you read people, most of the time it’s to fire you up.