Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Weaponized Autism posted:

AirBNB is great for when you're staying in center-city. I've found the nightly rates to be $100s of dollars cheaper than a hotel in many cases. I haven't used it in at least 5 years though so my guess is it's gotten more expensive.

Yeah, there's a lot more investors in the Airbnb game these days. Whether it was people kicking out their long-term rental tenants because they realised Airbnb is more profitable even when empty several nights a week, or people buying up real estate specifically to convert to Airbnbs. There's a lot less value to be found (or at least was, when we could travel), particularly if you're just staying a couple of nights when the service fee and cleaning fees make up a larger percentage of the total.

I don't have any stats or anything, but my hunch is also that the ratio of "nicely decorated entire apartment" properties vs "staying in someone's spare room" properties has shifted dramatically over the last five years as well.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply