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Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

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I've been on both sides of the AirBNB thing, and all of my experiences have been... shockingly positive, actually. Polite, respectful guests and helpful, responsive owners. (Having regular guests has also really helped my cat get over her fear of strangers!)

We could actually rent out our room a lot more than we do, but we don't want to have guests all the time.

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Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

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Dead Pressed posted:

Glad it's working out for you. I'd love to put you in the list of goon hosts if you'd be interested. Maybe I want to visit you, IS THAT SO BAD? :-)

I'd like to, but it's posted under my wife's account, so I want to check with her first (as it has her real name and picture).

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

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my darling feet posted:

Has anybody had any bad experiences with ABnB, the California Squatters case aside?

A long sequence of ABnB guests stayed in my office/spare room. Most of these were academics there to work at Princeton, so they were trivial to vet in academic circles, and nobody wants to party in Princeton.

I only had one negative experience in that time. An Indian couple came for a week and a half to visit their son, who was a student at Princeton.

When they asked if they could use my kitchen, I didn't think anything of it.

What I didn't realize was that it meant the mother would be cooking huge elaborate meals for the three of them from 6 AM to 9 PM, every single day. I had to get special permission to use my own microwave for two minutes. Kind of bullshit.

Oh, and some idiot cooked a fish filet in my microwave directly on the rotating plate, not in a dish or anything, then forgot about it and left it there. I discovered it days later.

That's about all, though...

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