Most guests are wonderful, just like most Airbnb hosts are wonderful–but there will always be bad eggs.

Ultimately, Airbnb is about building a community–and that includes the one that sticks around over time. They’ll be the ones dealing with excessive noise or mess, and they’ll be the ones left to express their frustration to both you, any future guests, and even the authorities once problem guests have long checked out and moved on.īe sure to make guests aware of any rules that can make your neighbors’ lives easier (like quiet hours), and be scrupulous in which guests you accept in the first place. Guests are important to running your Airbnb, but they come and go–your neighbors will stick around. Which, leads to our next tip for Airbnb hosts… We would never go to New Orleans, for example, and rent an entire home out when that is clearly not an accepted practice there–and I would question the ethics of someone who would. These problems are very real and very complex–we certainly haven’t stopped using Airbnb over it entirely, though we know some travelers who have–but it has definitely impacted our behavior.

A lot has changed with how Airbnb is perceived over the last several years–cities like New Orleans, Barcelona, and New York have all tightened the clamps on Airbnb renting, citing issues with investors buying up property and then renting it out to unscrupulous guests, which has the double negative impact of causing tension in neighborhoods and driving up the prices for longterm renters.

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