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A comment on Airbnb (YC W09): The Rise of the One-Room Hotel.

Re:Airbnb (YC W09): The Rise of the One-Room Hotel by racecar789 on Saturday November 13, 2010 @01:42PM (#1901355)
Airbnb does run a risk of pushback by state/local governments. Cities create residential/business zoning for valid reasons. Airbnb disregards this zoning and turns every house into a potential hotel.

Nobody likes living next to a rental property.

That said, still a very ingenious idea and I wish them the best.

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Re:Airbnb (YC W09): The Rise of the One-Room Hotel by spaghetti on Saturday November 13, 2010 @05:24PM (#1901868)
Hopefully state/local governments will realize the potential increase in tourist spending that Airbnb makes possible. I paid $X for a week of lodging via Airbnb. The equivalent hotel would have cost easily 3X. So now I've saved 2X... and since I'm on vacation I have no problem just spending 1.5X on purely fun stuff (restaurants etc). Also note that having to pay 3X for a traditional hotel would strongly discourage me from going on vacation all together.
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