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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by debaserab2 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:52AM (#27517258)
I'm very tired of the property investors that snatch up duplexes and turn them into quadplexes and then post them all on AirBnB with deceiving photos of the room layouts and amenities.

The number of airbnb's that I've stayed at that have awkward rooms or incomplete amenities has been increasing year over year (such as a counter that prevents a refrigerator door from fully opening due to a hasty remodel, or a kitchen with a full set of pans but no silverware). The toiletries are almost always lacking, the bed sheets are always of the lowest quality - whatever the minimum the host can do to check the box on their AirBnB profile. The photos, reviews, and amenity lists on the host's profile never tell the fully story.

This is more the norm than the exception in my recent experience.

Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by jjeaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @03:45PM (#27520529)
Shouldn't this kind of stuff show up in the reviews rather quickly?
Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by mancerayder on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:58PM (#27524744)
As per a comment I posted above, they censor the reviews enormously. You can find hosts giving each other tips on Reddit on how to do this and recently Bloomberg posted about it (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-26/airbnb...).

It makes me quite furious as I've had tame reviews removed.