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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n... by jlardinois on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:19AM (#13512995)
Do Airbnb hosts usually get a say on who signs up to stay in their dwellings?
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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n... by CardenB on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:27AM (#13513020)
Yes. You contact the hosts and then they have to approve you. Hosts review their guests after each stay for future hosts to look at.
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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n... by mynameisvlad on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:09AM (#13513442)
Not 100% true, there are plenty of instant book properties on AirBnB which do not require any interaction between host and guest before the purchase.
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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n... by ivan_gammel on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:19AM (#13513644)
It was the decision of hosts to list the properties for instant booking, so host controls who can stay anyway. In these cases it just does not matter for the host who are the guests.
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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n... by mynameisvlad on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:40PM (#13515790)
Yes, that's true, and I never said it wasn't. I was just clarifying that, in some cases, you don't communicate with the host before you book.
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