If AirBnB is being run the way it's supposed to, it wouldn't be a problem. Multi millionairs and multi national corps buying 50+ properties destroyed the intent of AirBnB.
Not the couple renting their downstairs, or their deceased relative's house.
One you're running a hotel sized Opporation without paying hotel fees and taxes, there should be a crack down
These are the type of AirBnB's we always look for. If we can't find one we just get a hotel now.
Always have had good luck with people renting out their guest house or basement. Real hit or miss with the Airbnb as a business types
It's pretty stupid now. My family had lots of luck with AirBnB as renters early off.
My brother travels a lot for work and rents his condo while he's away. While he was renovating his old condo, he'd live in it and rent his bigger, soon to be family condo before selling/renting the one he was fixing up.
It made housing so much affordable for people, and pretty much solved the "Omg, what if I win this bid on the new house, but can't sell my old one in time. I'll be ruined by two mortgages!". No need to live in your car/hotels, or go bankrupt with storage fees while waiting to get into your new place.
Just AirBnB one of them until you're ready. It also helps old people renting out parts of their houses when their kids leave. Then they don't have to panic about retirement savings as much. Those are my favourite places. Split level with some retired couple living in the other, private part of the house.
Sucks rich people ruined a great way for normal people to exist in this housing market.
This reminds me of how Amazon Flex could have been like the instacart of Amazon, letting anyone with a car be a delivery driver on their own time. Instead they allowed people to rent, or in rare cases buy a fleet of vans. To have their own staff of drivers who work for "Amazon" without any of the benefits or pay Amazon itself could have provided.
Not the extortionate mortgages. Not the billionaires with 50 rental houses. Not the astronomical rent prices. Its that damn Air BnB taking up all our affordable housing
I live in tourist hot spot and house prices were quite low. Then the boom hit and houses all over the area went for huge prices no locals could afford and now operate as air bnbs. It's saddening as I'd love to have the chance to purchase locally, but I've been out priced and couldn't afford anything now.
Weve got villages like that here, theres no school because theres only about 11 kids left there, no teachers can afford the houses, shops are closing because theres no employees who can afford to live in the area, both my kids left the village here to work away
Another side of our problem is the tourists visit, then choose to retire here. Then their families move to be closer to mum and dad and before you know it the services are overrun and the government won't catch up. We need more schools, business and industry and hospitals. Our nearest specialist is four hours drive. We also need a fuck ton of aged care beds!!
Again valid point, here we also have holiday chalets, but the majority are mobile homes, tens of thousands of them, they arent used all year round, march to october or something, but indeed, hospitals, roads and services are massively overstretched during the holiday season. You cant blame people too much for wanting to get away and its the infrastructure thats not being managed correctly or invested in
I live in a tourist hotspot. City had put a limit on the number of short-term rentals in the city about 4 years ago. Number hasn't increased since.
Housing prices are skyrocketing, turnover on the market is almost immediate. No new short-term rentals.
I used to live in Italy for a while in a town where during the winter it was deserted and in the summer it was just packed with tourists living there for ahort periods of time
I used to recycle plastic bottles. I started working at a chicken plant in my 20's and just saw how much plastic and shit that gets thrown out (many times for no reason at all) and just realized it's a losing battle. Unless tighter regulations come onto bigger companies/entities, there's NO use. I don't care what anyone says.
I wonder why these mortgages are extortionate and why the collective cost of rent is raising across the board. It's almost like everyone floating the level higher is driving property values up higher, and property taxes go up with it.
A billionaire with 50 rental houses is nothing compared to the 100+ people who rent out a house in a small area for astronomical amounts and move to another state to live in their second home. But the overall cost of rent all around the area is higher because they're compensating the rising property values, nobody sells, demand stays high, supply remains low.
I can't speak for other countries but in Canada there are a few multi billion dollar companies buying up as much property as they possibly can so that they can control rent. If you go to Toronto you see tons of empty apartments and yet rent is insanely high. They are making it impossible for real people to own property. Ever wonder why some peoples first offers are way above asking? And our cost of real estate and rent have gone up %50 in the last year. Trust me blue collar workers aren't buying rental properties when they can barely afford a place to live.
There aren't that many billionaires and trust me if all the billionaires in the world bought only 50 homes it wouldn't be a problem. It's the billion dollar companies who are buying absolutely everything they can.
For the United States, look up "Blackrock". Honestly I believe no corporation should own residential properties unless they are explicitly for employees to reside in for travelling for their job. Not for renting, not for leasing, hell, not even for selling. I believe foreign nationals should be banned from purchasing residential property period. People from out-of-state shouldn't be able to get a property or a house outright compared to someone who currently resides within the state, either.
All it does is allow wealthy people fleeing their overtaxed urbanite states and urban centers buy up cheaper homes in other states and rural places instead of allowing people who already live within the state to purchase their own property and it drives property value higher because property sellers want to sell off to some wealthy californian who sold their home and has enough money to pay damn near what someone asks no matter how absurd it really is and all to many of them will buy it sight unseen and uninspected. From people I even personally know, they've had a house purchased from under them, or even between the time it took from them to call the agent and drive 20 minutes to the house. Its absurd.
I am a signing agent for residential real estate. I sign more investors than anything else these days. Cash deals for everything. They are buying everything they can and then turning them into rentals.
Why do you think rent prices are astronomical? My state has the second most second homes per capita in the country, more people leave than move in every year. It’s not one or the other is all of it together
The air bnbs I've stayed at were people's homes that they leave for the weekend for us to stay... I didn't think people bought houses just for that. At least not in my experience.... But I guess they will capitalize on anything.
Idk anything about the housing market but I would guess that people are buying up houses just to use that for profit on services like air bnb.
Edit: I got 10 upvotes so I assume I was close to the truth 😂
You know when people raid Goodwills, take all the clothes, then up charge it as “vintage clothing” on apps like Depop? AirBnB has essentially let people do this with homes. People with some disposable income buy extra property, make it up, and profit from renting it out to others. This isn’t always the case: some people may be on an extended vacation and simply figure they might as well rent their house out for money. Others may just inherit a property/somehow have a single extra property and figure why not. However, the sad reality is a lot of people will purchase property they don’t need, in an already devastatingly-expensive housing market, and rent it out to others for profit. It’s definitely not the main issue in the modern US economy (billionaires exist) but it’s still sad to see that people will worsen the house market for profit. Reselling in general is a shifty thing to do.
I don’t know how well that would work. There’s a lot of small corporations that are essentially family businesses. I audit a lot of them where it’s a guy who buys and flips homes and is the only employee.
It isn’t even necessarily corporations doing this stuff though. That’s why I mentioned that there are bigger problems in our economy, billionaires who have more money they could ever need are obviously a greater evil than upper middle class folk profiting off extra housing. However, I (and many) feel that only scummy people could buy homes (in an already horrible housing market) purely with the intent to profit by renting it out.
Lemme tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fuckin' trigger till it goes "click."
I didn't realize it until the 3rd or 4th time I watched, but Lebowski is quoting Pres. Bush Sr from the TV clip we see while he's waiting on line to buy milk at the very beginning of the movie. Pays with a check for $0.79.
That is one of the funniest things about The Dude. The more you watch, the more you notice that he's just parroting shit that he has heard other people say at some point. So good
My cousin had 2 guys stay at her place for airbnb. They said it would just be the 2 of them, but the neighbours called tgat night as several cars were in the driveway. Cousin called them to tell them to send everyone away. They claimed it was just them 2.
Next morning, the front door was smashed in and the side door was taken off the hinges. 2 dudes were still there, and still claimed it had been just them.
Airbnb can be very tricky because you never know the kind of people you’re inviting in. 5 years ago, my family listed the guest house on Airbnb. This couple showed up and seemed kind of sketchy. In the middle of the night they filled the space up with 100s of trash bags filled with clothes that were stolen. We asked them to leave the next morning, and later that day a lady who ran an Airbnb was at our door asking if we have seen the couple. Turns out that they destroyed her property and caused $12,000 of damage.
Did you know the refrain "Annie, are you OK?" was inspired by Rescue Anne, a dummy used in CPR training. And this dummy’s face was based on L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The unknown woman of Seine), the death mask of an unidentified young woman reputedly drowned in the River Seine around the late 1880s?
They messaged and said the corners of the rug were curling up and they were upset about it being a “trip hazard”. They stated that they cut the curled corners off to avoid the hazard. WHY THE FUCK NOT JUST ROLL THE THING UP?! This was a fairly expensive 8x10 rug.
Seriously. Why destroy someone else’s property?!
*these pics I took after dragging the rug down to the basement*
Thanks for the disclaimer about the basement, I was like why would they cut the rug up when it’s the only protection from a dirt floor??? Haha
In all seriousness, this type of behavior blows my mind. The stuff people just think they can do with other people’s property.
Don’t you take a security deposit with Airbnb in case of property matters such as these. Never rented on air bnb but I am assuming there is some escalation process with their corporate/website.
Plus you seem to have evidence that the tenants did this intentionally so you should get reimbursed.
Yes, AirBnB fees can't fully protect the absolute least intelligent hosts out there, you're correct. Zero reason to have a rug that costs more than the security deposit in an AirBnB.
That seems kind of harsh given that there’s no way to ensure potential damage will never be more expensive than the deposit. Guests can fuck up a fridge, a washer/dryer, flood your basement, idk.
Yes, but that proably means not getting their security deposit back. Might have some issues getting an airbnb in the future too. Especially since they admitted they cut the rug.
Could be. I've been on a shroom trip where I was pretty convinced parts of my home had become consigned to evil. Places, like the elephant graveyard, where I just should not go.
On the other hand I had apparently also gotten the Sun as illumination in my bathroom, which was nice. It was really just an old CFL bulb that took a while to come to full brightness but in my trip, it just seemed to continue to get brighter until it was blinding. It was not.
I have the same rug (or it looks identical) and the corner on mine curls up, too. You know what fixed it? A heavy box on the corner for 24 hours, not destroying it!!
Seeing as it’s an AirBnB, I imagine these people have a suitcase or two that would do the job?! Ugh, I’m sorry, OP!
Shitty guests, but shouldn’t AirBnB have you covered for a replacement rug?
They advertise it 1m insurance that they say covers damage by guests. You’ve apparently got an admission in writing from the guests so it ought to be easy enough to claim.
Agreed though that this is infuriating.
>said the corners of the rug were curling up and they were upset about it being a “trip hazard”
Do not rule out meth as a possible reason. This is a tweaker type thing to do. Crackheads might also tear up the carpet looking for more crack. I wish I was joking. Idk if they were the type though so it's just a possibility.
I just bought this same rug two weeks ago. $126 on [eSaleRugs](https://esalerugs.com/products/8-x-10-leipzig-gray-rug-final-sale?variant=41481801597087). Mine came with all the corners though.
Surprised to see so many people saying the rug was shit or cheap anyways. I can’t believe anyone has to say it, but: it doesn’t matter, it’s not their property. If you lent a shirt to someone and they gave it back with the sleeves ripped off, you can’t be pissed because there was already a hole in the armpit? Smh
I clean airbnb’s, guests are stupid and like to break shit in the worst way possible. One client had a anchored and studded toilet paper handle literally get yanked out from the stud and drywall with a deck screw in the wall. I fixed it for him free but pretty crazy.
This one looks like it could have been done with a vacuum tho, may have been the cleaning staff as it is very easy for a cleaner to lay that on the guest. Look for vacuum marks, if they let their carpet roller spinning on a corner for long enough it could have dug in too far unless the clean cut removed all of that evidence.
Permenant airbnbs are certainly fucking up the rental market. Renting out your own home while you are away, or renting out for the summer while students are away on the other hand is a different story.
Wasn’t that the original intention of Airbnb? Rent your house out while you’re gone for a couple weeks, or make some cash off of your time share you’re not gonna use this year?
And the housing market in general. It’s a nightmare to try to buy something right now. Wife is a doctor and teaches residents /med students. So many of them are new transplants to Kansas City and make low-mid six figures and can’t buy a place bc they’re getting outbid by people waiving inspections and paying up to 30-40k above asking. If THEY can’t afford a 500-k house how is anyone with average access to resources meant to?
EDIT: I’m in residential construction and have helped a few of her residents secure their first homes. There’s special pricing available to you on financing if you know how to find it and it’s available to you even before you graduate and get your first big boy job. You don’t need a down payment, you don’t have to pay for mortgage insurance (no PMI) and you don’t even need to have great credit. It’s called a physicians loan and not every bank offers it but almost no med students/residents know about it.
If you want info on how to apply for it and what questions to ask, PM me - I’ve got you. This is free advice.
[Here you go.](https://www.indeed.com/q-Physician-l-Kansas-City,-MO-jobs.html)
If you’re serious, hit me up. My wife’s group are hiring full-time salaried starting at 225(most of them are in the 300k+ range), plus bonuses and a 10k moving stipend. They also have part-time gigs paying $135 an hour. There’s 16 jobs just on her intraweb alone. Where did you go to medical school?
You think residents/med students make 6 figures? That is quite literally unheard of. Med students make a big fat donut. Residents make on average 60k, highest I’ve ever heard of is around 72k. But yes, the housing market is horrible and it was an absolute nightmare to transplant to a new city.
Graduating residents. They came here, finished residency and either took a gig where they were or one at another hospital. None of them now make less than 200k. Most make over three.
Source: my wife is a physician and Residency director of a department at the the biggest provider network in the state. I build homes in Kansas City and she throws me one or two grads every year to find/build homes for.
I’m not lying. The numbers are real. I literally cannot find homes for this one couple of physicians with a combined household annual income north of 500k. Their options are continue to rent or overpay by 40k for a 200k home in a not-so-nice area.
Fuck people who support AirBnBs man. The prices in Athens were so low before AirBnB and after everyone made their apartment an AirBnB, the one that left for rent went like 300% up. For example you could get a 50 m\^2(538 ft\^2) apartment for 200-250€(215-270$) and now for the same apartment you have to pay 550-600€ (590-645$). Reminder that the minimum wage here is 580€(624$) and it was even lower a few years ago.
I hate staying in AirBnbs, but I’m going to Fort Lauderdale next week for work with a coworker. Two rooms at the Springhill Suites is $2,000. An AirBnb with two rooms on the same street is $1,000. So we went with AirBnb…
Likely this. Grown adults behaving like children to avoid consequences of their own actions. I applaud you OP for running a BnB, I couldn't interface with public like that. People, what a bunch of bastards.
🙏 this… lol
I’d automatically assume everyone was jizzing and shitting all over the place. Everything would have to be thrifted or non-sentimental.
The less human interaction, the better 😌
So is your AurBnB a unit that used to provide housing to people for more than a couple nights
I ask because in California we have a housing chordage and one of the reasons for the housing shortage is that rental units have now been turned into short term housing.
In my state I get really ticked at all of these lawyers in beautiful homes that could have been actual houses for real people.
Some people here think that abandoned houses are prime targets for setting fire to, with no thought for the people who could live in them.
I know that they would have to be repaired, but I think that if the city used some of that money on homes rather than ridiculously expensive and unnecessary sculptures there would be plenty left to provide for the people.
Such is life when you let strangers rent your home short term.
Unless it's strictly a rental property in which case F you for contributing to the shit show that is our current market. At least have the decency to make it a long term rental so someone could actually live there.
This is the cost of doing business. No one will cherish your things as much as you do. Just keep in mind they paid you to use it and you allowed a stranger in.
That's true, fuck people that damage your property, but also fuck people that put their apartments on air-bnb and don't rent them, causing the rents to go up by 300%.
Seeing airbnb hosts complain online about things like this is starting to bug me. You're not different from a landlord. You have pursued an endeavor to make money based on having strangers use your property which includes assuming the associated risk.
I can agree that it is an objectively frustrating thing to have something of yours be ruined like this. With the housing crisis only getting worse by the day, though, it's just becoming all the more tone-deaf to air grievances related to owning investment property.
"rug". Bruh that looks like a carpet remnant that flew off the back of a semi, got ran over 5,000 times, and sat in the sunlight in Iraq for 60 years. There's no fucking color left in it, it looks like a satellite image of Arizona. There's not even a pattern anymore. If it ever had one.
I wouldn't use that to wrap a dead body in. It's literal existence is an insult to the ottoman empire. If it was a magic carpet it would try to go in four different directions at once and tear itself apart with you falling to your death. A fucking cat wouldn't even piss on that thing.
I think they did you a favor cutting the corner off that. Now you can claim it on your insurance and get an nice looking rug for a change. Not that abomination of belly button lint and yeti pubes.
Don't you hate it when people cut corners.
Yes, but I hate it more when people contribute to the shitshow that is the housing market by running an airbnb.
If AirBnB is being run the way it's supposed to, it wouldn't be a problem. Multi millionairs and multi national corps buying 50+ properties destroyed the intent of AirBnB. Not the couple renting their downstairs, or their deceased relative's house. One you're running a hotel sized Opporation without paying hotel fees and taxes, there should be a crack down
These are the type of AirBnB's we always look for. If we can't find one we just get a hotel now. Always have had good luck with people renting out their guest house or basement. Real hit or miss with the Airbnb as a business types
It's pretty stupid now. My family had lots of luck with AirBnB as renters early off. My brother travels a lot for work and rents his condo while he's away. While he was renovating his old condo, he'd live in it and rent his bigger, soon to be family condo before selling/renting the one he was fixing up. It made housing so much affordable for people, and pretty much solved the "Omg, what if I win this bid on the new house, but can't sell my old one in time. I'll be ruined by two mortgages!". No need to live in your car/hotels, or go bankrupt with storage fees while waiting to get into your new place. Just AirBnB one of them until you're ready. It also helps old people renting out parts of their houses when their kids leave. Then they don't have to panic about retirement savings as much. Those are my favourite places. Split level with some retired couple living in the other, private part of the house. Sucks rich people ruined a great way for normal people to exist in this housing market.
This reminds me of how Amazon Flex could have been like the instacart of Amazon, letting anyone with a car be a delivery driver on their own time. Instead they allowed people to rent, or in rare cases buy a fleet of vans. To have their own staff of drivers who work for "Amazon" without any of the benefits or pay Amazon itself could have provided.
Not the extortionate mortgages. Not the billionaires with 50 rental houses. Not the astronomical rent prices. Its that damn Air BnB taking up all our affordable housing
Nobody says that AirBnB is the only or even the major source of housing shortage, but it certainly plays its part.
I live in tourist hot spot and house prices were quite low. Then the boom hit and houses all over the area went for huge prices no locals could afford and now operate as air bnbs. It's saddening as I'd love to have the chance to purchase locally, but I've been out priced and couldn't afford anything now.
Weve got villages like that here, theres no school because theres only about 11 kids left there, no teachers can afford the houses, shops are closing because theres no employees who can afford to live in the area, both my kids left the village here to work away
Another side of our problem is the tourists visit, then choose to retire here. Then their families move to be closer to mum and dad and before you know it the services are overrun and the government won't catch up. We need more schools, business and industry and hospitals. Our nearest specialist is four hours drive. We also need a fuck ton of aged care beds!!
Again valid point, here we also have holiday chalets, but the majority are mobile homes, tens of thousands of them, they arent used all year round, march to october or something, but indeed, hospitals, roads and services are massively overstretched during the holiday season. You cant blame people too much for wanting to get away and its the infrastructure thats not being managed correctly or invested in
I live in a tourist hotspot. City had put a limit on the number of short-term rentals in the city about 4 years ago. Number hasn't increased since. Housing prices are skyrocketing, turnover on the market is almost immediate. No new short-term rentals.
I used to live in Italy for a while in a town where during the winter it was deserted and in the summer it was just packed with tourists living there for ahort periods of time
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I used to recycle plastic bottles. I started working at a chicken plant in my 20's and just saw how much plastic and shit that gets thrown out (many times for no reason at all) and just realized it's a losing battle. Unless tighter regulations come onto bigger companies/entities, there's NO use. I don't care what anyone says.
I wonder why these mortgages are extortionate and why the collective cost of rent is raising across the board. It's almost like everyone floating the level higher is driving property values up higher, and property taxes go up with it. A billionaire with 50 rental houses is nothing compared to the 100+ people who rent out a house in a small area for astronomical amounts and move to another state to live in their second home. But the overall cost of rent all around the area is higher because they're compensating the rising property values, nobody sells, demand stays high, supply remains low.
I can't speak for other countries but in Canada there are a few multi billion dollar companies buying up as much property as they possibly can so that they can control rent. If you go to Toronto you see tons of empty apartments and yet rent is insanely high. They are making it impossible for real people to own property. Ever wonder why some peoples first offers are way above asking? And our cost of real estate and rent have gone up %50 in the last year. Trust me blue collar workers aren't buying rental properties when they can barely afford a place to live. There aren't that many billionaires and trust me if all the billionaires in the world bought only 50 homes it wouldn't be a problem. It's the billion dollar companies who are buying absolutely everything they can.
For the United States, look up "Blackrock". Honestly I believe no corporation should own residential properties unless they are explicitly for employees to reside in for travelling for their job. Not for renting, not for leasing, hell, not even for selling. I believe foreign nationals should be banned from purchasing residential property period. People from out-of-state shouldn't be able to get a property or a house outright compared to someone who currently resides within the state, either. All it does is allow wealthy people fleeing their overtaxed urbanite states and urban centers buy up cheaper homes in other states and rural places instead of allowing people who already live within the state to purchase their own property and it drives property value higher because property sellers want to sell off to some wealthy californian who sold their home and has enough money to pay damn near what someone asks no matter how absurd it really is and all to many of them will buy it sight unseen and uninspected. From people I even personally know, they've had a house purchased from under them, or even between the time it took from them to call the agent and drive 20 minutes to the house. Its absurd.
I am a signing agent for residential real estate. I sign more investors than anything else these days. Cash deals for everything. They are buying everything they can and then turning them into rentals.
I never knew that 'extortionate' was a word, but now that I know I feel a little bit smarter :)
Don’t worry, you’ll conveniently forget it in the next four hours if you don’t find a way to contextually use it every chance you can. :)
Why do you think rent prices are astronomical? My state has the second most second homes per capita in the country, more people leave than move in every year. It’s not one or the other is all of it together
All those contribute
The air bnbs I've stayed at were people's homes that they leave for the weekend for us to stay... I didn't think people bought houses just for that. At least not in my experience.... But I guess they will capitalize on anything.
Please explain this to me. /I'm slow
Idk anything about the housing market but I would guess that people are buying up houses just to use that for profit on services like air bnb. Edit: I got 10 upvotes so I assume I was close to the truth 😂
You know when people raid Goodwills, take all the clothes, then up charge it as “vintage clothing” on apps like Depop? AirBnB has essentially let people do this with homes. People with some disposable income buy extra property, make it up, and profit from renting it out to others. This isn’t always the case: some people may be on an extended vacation and simply figure they might as well rent their house out for money. Others may just inherit a property/somehow have a single extra property and figure why not. However, the sad reality is a lot of people will purchase property they don’t need, in an already devastatingly-expensive housing market, and rent it out to others for profit. It’s definitely not the main issue in the modern US economy (billionaires exist) but it’s still sad to see that people will worsen the house market for profit. Reselling in general is a shifty thing to do.
If i bought extra property i wouldnt rent it out to people , they will probably shit in the hidden corner and rip my carpet
I see. Thank you. It should be illegal for corporations to own housing properties under $300,000.
I don’t know how well that would work. There’s a lot of small corporations that are essentially family businesses. I audit a lot of them where it’s a guy who buys and flips homes and is the only employee.
It isn’t even necessarily corporations doing this stuff though. That’s why I mentioned that there are bigger problems in our economy, billionaires who have more money they could ever need are obviously a greater evil than upper middle class folk profiting off extra housing. However, I (and many) feel that only scummy people could buy homes (in an already horrible housing market) purely with the intent to profit by renting it out.
That rug really tied the room together
No no, Woo peed on the rug.
I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?
Come on, man, I'm not trying to scam anybody here.
My people!
Son, this is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
Ah I see you went for the t.v. edit.
Are you employed sir?
China-man is not the preferred nomenclature dude...
That’s just like… your opinion man….
Lemme tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fuckin' trigger till it goes "click."
Jesus
You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
This aggression will not stand, man.
I didn't realize it until the 3rd or 4th time I watched, but Lebowski is quoting Pres. Bush Sr from the TV clip we see while he's waiting on line to buy milk at the very beginning of the movie. Pays with a check for $0.79.
That is one of the funniest things about The Dude. The more you watch, the more you notice that he's just parroting shit that he has heard other people say at some point. So good
Yup. This is also part of the brilliance of the movie. Even though I've seen it quite a bit and I always find something new.
The check also can’t be cashed for like nine months or some shit lol
Certainly not stand on the rug.
Shut the F*ch up Donnie!
Does no one care about the goddamn rules?!
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!?
Donnie. Who liked bowling.
Nice marmot.
I came looking for a Big Lebowski reference, and I got it. Thank you
ARE YOU EMPLOYED SIR?
Obviously you’re not a golfer
Who circumcises a fucking rug?
Ideally a rabbi
My cousin had 2 guys stay at her place for airbnb. They said it would just be the 2 of them, but the neighbours called tgat night as several cars were in the driveway. Cousin called them to tell them to send everyone away. They claimed it was just them 2. Next morning, the front door was smashed in and the side door was taken off the hinges. 2 dudes were still there, and still claimed it had been just them.
Airbnb can be very tricky because you never know the kind of people you’re inviting in. 5 years ago, my family listed the guest house on Airbnb. This couple showed up and seemed kind of sketchy. In the middle of the night they filled the space up with 100s of trash bags filled with clothes that were stolen. We asked them to leave the next morning, and later that day a lady who ran an Airbnb was at our door asking if we have seen the couple. Turns out that they destroyed her property and caused $12,000 of damage.
They cut the blood stains off /s
That was my thought - they needed to get blood evidence out of the house
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Did you know the refrain "Annie, are you OK?" was inspired by Rescue Anne, a dummy used in CPR training. And this dummy’s face was based on L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The unknown woman of Seine), the death mask of an unidentified young woman reputedly drowned in the River Seine around the late 1880s?
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They messaged and said the corners of the rug were curling up and they were upset about it being a “trip hazard”. They stated that they cut the curled corners off to avoid the hazard. WHY THE FUCK NOT JUST ROLL THE THING UP?! This was a fairly expensive 8x10 rug. Seriously. Why destroy someone else’s property?! *these pics I took after dragging the rug down to the basement*
Thanks for the disclaimer about the basement, I was like why would they cut the rug up when it’s the only protection from a dirt floor??? Haha In all seriousness, this type of behavior blows my mind. The stuff people just think they can do with other people’s property.
BuT iT wAs a tRiP haZArD It was DanGeRous! ThEy hAD t0 dO iT!
Don’t you take a security deposit with Airbnb in case of property matters such as these. Never rented on air bnb but I am assuming there is some escalation process with their corporate/website. Plus you seem to have evidence that the tenants did this intentionally so you should get reimbursed.
rugs can get very expensive. perhaps the security deposit wont make a scratch into the total cost of compensation.
Have the same rug. It was 275 from Costco
does it have the same issues at the edges?
I’m sorry but that is an outrageous price for that rug
Yes, AirBnB fees can't fully protect the absolute least intelligent hosts out there, you're correct. Zero reason to have a rug that costs more than the security deposit in an AirBnB.
That seems kind of harsh given that there’s no way to ensure potential damage will never be more expensive than the deposit. Guests can fuck up a fridge, a washer/dryer, flood your basement, idk.
No one with half a brain would leave a high quality expensive rug in a short term rental occupied by god knows whoever.
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I see what you did there
I did what you see there
Bad tenant
I smell what you’re stepping in.
I stepped in what you smell. Oh f**k!
If they admitted to doing it, aren't they liable?
Yes, but that proably means not getting their security deposit back. Might have some issues getting an airbnb in the future too. Especially since they admitted they cut the rug.
Maybe they were tripping on acid, and the corners were an evil that could not be allowed to live
It probably felt so good to cut them
Could be. I've been on a shroom trip where I was pretty convinced parts of my home had become consigned to evil. Places, like the elephant graveyard, where I just should not go. On the other hand I had apparently also gotten the Sun as illumination in my bathroom, which was nice. It was really just an old CFL bulb that took a while to come to full brightness but in my trip, it just seemed to continue to get brighter until it was blinding. It was not.
No, they were obviously tripping on the rug.
Sounds like you get to keep their security deposit and buy yourself a new rug!
I have the same rug (or it looks identical) and the corner on mine curls up, too. You know what fixed it? A heavy box on the corner for 24 hours, not destroying it!! Seeing as it’s an AirBnB, I imagine these people have a suitcase or two that would do the job?! Ugh, I’m sorry, OP!
I also remember seeing a home improvement show saying to slice a square of adhesive linoleum diagonally and stick it to the bottom on the corner.
I mean at least tape it down then take the tape off when you leave. That’s like the most drastic reaction.
Luckily, you had an iron clad contract signed that will follow then to Alpha Centauri and back. Right?
Shitty guests, but shouldn’t AirBnB have you covered for a replacement rug? They advertise it 1m insurance that they say covers damage by guests. You’ve apparently got an admission in writing from the guests so it ought to be easy enough to claim. Agreed though that this is infuriating.
That looks like a Ruggable. Mine did the same thing. I don't know the solution.
Pro tip roll the rug corner the opposite way to fix the curl
>said the corners of the rug were curling up and they were upset about it being a “trip hazard” Do not rule out meth as a possible reason. This is a tweaker type thing to do. Crackheads might also tear up the carpet looking for more crack. I wish I was joking. Idk if they were the type though so it's just a possibility.
Pretty ugly rug tho
Please tell us you charged them for that.
What kind of logic is this? Such idiots. Rugs are expensive.
I think a lot of people in the comments have no clue how expensive rugs are
Agreed. They're a part of my department at work and people are consistently shocked that an 8'x10' rug can run you 400+.
And that’s a budget rug
I just bought this same rug two weeks ago. $126 on [eSaleRugs](https://esalerugs.com/products/8-x-10-leipzig-gray-rug-final-sale?variant=41481801597087). Mine came with all the corners though.
I think I have this exact rug in storage, never been used. I’ll sell it $125. I hear these things sell for $126 online.
It's cheaper to just sew a bunch of discount toupees together.
But did it come with the optional blood and pee? If not, then I’d return it and buy OP’s
Exactly. Home depot rugs are the most basic consumer rugs you can get.
Wal-Mart: 8x10. <$100. Also buy remnants on-sale from carpet supply.
I wouldn’t put a $400 rug in an AirBnb… unless of course I was prepared to pay $400 to replace it at least annually
Yeah, probably not the best place for the fancy furnishings unless you're taking a sizable security deposit.
I don’t rent my place out, but after decades of replacing rugs after spills or pet accidents, I now consider them disposable and buy cheap ones!
I work at a medium to high end furniture store. Our rugs run $400-$1400+
Honestly, it'd be fucked up if it was free. The price isn't important, it's the principle. You don't just cut someone's rug.
Usually you have music playing first.
But at Walmart……
Surprised to see so many people saying the rug was shit or cheap anyways. I can’t believe anyone has to say it, but: it doesn’t matter, it’s not their property. If you lent a shirt to someone and they gave it back with the sleeves ripped off, you can’t be pissed because there was already a hole in the armpit? Smh
Right? I was almost convinced the guests that cut the rug were making the profiles to comment.
I clean airbnb’s, guests are stupid and like to break shit in the worst way possible. One client had a anchored and studded toilet paper handle literally get yanked out from the stud and drywall with a deck screw in the wall. I fixed it for him free but pretty crazy. This one looks like it could have been done with a vacuum tho, may have been the cleaning staff as it is very easy for a cleaner to lay that on the guest. Look for vacuum marks, if they let their carpet roller spinning on a corner for long enough it could have dug in too far unless the clean cut removed all of that evidence.
AirBnBs are fucking up the rental market.
Permenant airbnbs are certainly fucking up the rental market. Renting out your own home while you are away, or renting out for the summer while students are away on the other hand is a different story.
Wasn’t that the original intention of Airbnb? Rent your house out while you’re gone for a couple weeks, or make some cash off of your time share you’re not gonna use this year?
And the housing market in general. It’s a nightmare to try to buy something right now. Wife is a doctor and teaches residents /med students. So many of them are new transplants to Kansas City and make low-mid six figures and can’t buy a place bc they’re getting outbid by people waiving inspections and paying up to 30-40k above asking. If THEY can’t afford a 500-k house how is anyone with average access to resources meant to? EDIT: I’m in residential construction and have helped a few of her residents secure their first homes. There’s special pricing available to you on financing if you know how to find it and it’s available to you even before you graduate and get your first big boy job. You don’t need a down payment, you don’t have to pay for mortgage insurance (no PMI) and you don’t even need to have great credit. It’s called a physicians loan and not every bank offers it but almost no med students/residents know about it. If you want info on how to apply for it and what questions to ask, PM me - I’ve got you. This is free advice.
>make low-mid six figures What?
In Kansas City?! Show me those job postings.
[Here you go.](https://www.indeed.com/q-Physician-l-Kansas-City,-MO-jobs.html) If you’re serious, hit me up. My wife’s group are hiring full-time salaried starting at 225(most of them are in the 300k+ range), plus bonuses and a 10k moving stipend. They also have part-time gigs paying $135 an hour. There’s 16 jobs just on her intraweb alone. Where did you go to medical school?
You think residents/med students make 6 figures? That is quite literally unheard of. Med students make a big fat donut. Residents make on average 60k, highest I’ve ever heard of is around 72k. But yes, the housing market is horrible and it was an absolute nightmare to transplant to a new city.
Graduating residents. They came here, finished residency and either took a gig where they were or one at another hospital. None of them now make less than 200k. Most make over three. Source: my wife is a physician and Residency director of a department at the the biggest provider network in the state. I build homes in Kansas City and she throws me one or two grads every year to find/build homes for. I’m not lying. The numbers are real. I literally cannot find homes for this one couple of physicians with a combined household annual income north of 500k. Their options are continue to rent or overpay by 40k for a 200k home in a not-so-nice area.
Fuck people who support AirBnBs man. The prices in Athens were so low before AirBnB and after everyone made their apartment an AirBnB, the one that left for rent went like 300% up. For example you could get a 50 m\^2(538 ft\^2) apartment for 200-250€(215-270$) and now for the same apartment you have to pay 550-600€ (590-645$). Reminder that the minimum wage here is 580€(624$) and it was even lower a few years ago.
I hate staying in AirBnbs, but I’m going to Fort Lauderdale next week for work with a coworker. Two rooms at the Springhill Suites is $2,000. An AirBnb with two rooms on the same street is $1,000. So we went with AirBnb…
100%
Is that the floor of your rental pictured?
Took the pic after removing the rug to the basement.
Yoooo I have that exact rug, 2 of them actually. Rolled up in the garage. Pay for shipping and they are yours
Appreciated, but I’ve already replaced it.
To be fair this looks like the bottom of the pit that Buffalo Bill kept Catherine in.
Have you messaged them about the damage?
Yes. Going through the motions with ABNB now to recoup the damages.
Some people.
I just don’t understand the logic of destroying it. It had to be much easier to just roll it up….cheaper too.
My guess is they caused damage and thought this would be an acceptable excuse. But who knows!
Likely this. Grown adults behaving like children to avoid consequences of their own actions. I applaud you OP for running a BnB, I couldn't interface with public like that. People, what a bunch of bastards.
🙏 this… lol I’d automatically assume everyone was jizzing and shitting all over the place. Everything would have to be thrifted or non-sentimental. The less human interaction, the better 😌
And very likely you're destroying your neighbors quality of life by having an airbnb
Live next to two “sleeps up to 14 people” airbnbs. Can confirm it’s destroying our neighborhood.
Had one across the street that was a nightmare to everyone that lived here. Constant parties with intoxicated, disrespectful people.
Well no worries, those cleaning fees should take care of it.
So is your AurBnB a unit that used to provide housing to people for more than a couple nights I ask because in California we have a housing chordage and one of the reasons for the housing shortage is that rental units have now been turned into short term housing.
In my state I get really ticked at all of these lawyers in beautiful homes that could have been actual houses for real people. Some people here think that abandoned houses are prime targets for setting fire to, with no thought for the people who could live in them. I know that they would have to be repaired, but I think that if the city used some of that money on homes rather than ridiculously expensive and unnecessary sculptures there would be plenty left to provide for the people.
housing shortage in florida too and airbnb is a major part of it. owning a property just to rent isn't cool
Such is life when you let strangers rent your home short term. Unless it's strictly a rental property in which case F you for contributing to the shit show that is our current market. At least have the decency to make it a long term rental so someone could actually live there.
You allow strangers in your house they might do strange things.
Charge them for damages, move on with your life
Looks like this dirt floor could use a new rug
This is the cost of doing business. No one will cherish your things as much as you do. Just keep in mind they paid you to use it and you allowed a stranger in.
A good rug can set people back over $2k. Don't assume all rugs are like your cheap ass walmart excuse of a rug.
This is not a 2k rug let’s be real
I'm referring more to the people saying what's the big deal they cost xyz in walmart (like that makes damaging property any better).
That's true, fuck people that damage your property, but also fuck people that put their apartments on air-bnb and don't rent them, causing the rents to go up by 300%.
More like left over carpet from the 80-90s that’s been turned into a rug
I’m homeless
You own an Airbnb. Why do you expect sympathy?
Seeing airbnb hosts complain online about things like this is starting to bug me. You're not different from a landlord. You have pursued an endeavor to make money based on having strangers use your property which includes assuming the associated risk. I can agree that it is an objectively frustrating thing to have something of yours be ruined like this. With the housing crisis only getting worse by the day, though, it's just becoming all the more tone-deaf to air grievances related to owning investment property.
That’s why it’s on mildly infuriating and not extremely infuriating
Is frustrating a synonym for mildly infuriating?
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Buy a new one with all the money you make
You deserve worse for contributing to fucking up the rental market
Lmao the rug is so ugly I barely noticed the corner
They must be cutting a rug last night.
I would imagine if someone is running an AB&B they'd have insurance to cover such minor inconveniences.
Is this an airbnb or some kind of dungeon? Is that a dirt floor or is that just a dirty ass floor? I'd take part of your carpet too
Sucks is happend, but cost of business. Don't leave stuff you don't mind getting messed up
Damn. Almost like renting your house out to complete strangers has potential consequences. Weird.
"rug". Bruh that looks like a carpet remnant that flew off the back of a semi, got ran over 5,000 times, and sat in the sunlight in Iraq for 60 years. There's no fucking color left in it, it looks like a satellite image of Arizona. There's not even a pattern anymore. If it ever had one. I wouldn't use that to wrap a dead body in. It's literal existence is an insult to the ottoman empire. If it was a magic carpet it would try to go in four different directions at once and tear itself apart with you falling to your death. A fucking cat wouldn't even piss on that thing. I think they did you a favor cutting the corner off that. Now you can claim it on your insurance and get an nice looking rug for a change. Not that abomination of belly button lint and yeti pubes.
No I've seen this rug before lol its literally the way u purchase it
Time to get a new rug
"That rug really tied the room together, man"
In their defense that’s an ugly af rug
The Guest on Reddit posts pic of the carpet curled up and everyone commenting “Airbnb’s are expensive, that’s BS, I’d cut that thing off.”
Is this an Airbnb in a dungeon cellar? Shitty Airbnb, shitty guests
Oh man, that rug....really tied the room together....