Airbnb hosts have been asking their guests
people who literally pay them to stay at their rental.
To do more chores in addition to paying expensive cleaning fees.
Now if you've ever rented an Airbnb it's likely that you've run into this issue.
I've certainly run into this issue and I don't appreciate it.
So let's talk about it.
So we've got some testimonials from some of these unhappy campers.
Who explained some of the more outrageous things that these Airbnb hosts have asked
them to do.
We'll start with the less extreme and we'll work our way to the craziest cases.
So a school teacher,
Christina Marie spent her last vacation day fretting over finishing her chores.
Vacuum check, laundry check, dishes check.
Her Airbnb in South Lake Tahoe California had an exhaustive list
of cleaning requirements.
And she wasn't going to let her guest rating dip over it,
cooking breakfast for her family of six would mean more cleaning.
So everyone ate bananas and Pop-Tarts that morning.
In fact in one viral video, another woman named Mel gave her reaction to
what one of the hosts had asked of their guests, let's watch.
>> Where do Airbnb owners get the audacity.
So I'm just doing some research for a little mini vacation.
My husband and I want to take at the end of February.
Found this place that I liked that's within our price range.
It does have $125 cleaning fee as most Airbnb do and
I don't have a problem with that, but this is what I do have a problem with.
So in addition to that $125 cleaning fee.
We ask that you remove garbage fine, remove bin and
linens fine ,start the dishwasher and load of laundry.
Now maybe this is like entitlement or privilege talking.
However if I'm paying $229 a night to stay somewhere plus
$125 cleaning fee, I'm not doing any laundry full stop.
I know it's like one load of laundry, it'll take me two minutes to do but
the principle of it really bothers me.
>> Yes Mel ,yes she gets it.
No I'm sick of this stuff.
Okay, all of these app based services ended up failing us,
okay all of them, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, they've all failed us.
Just rent a hotel,
no one in a hotel is going to ask you to do their laundry for them, okay.
>> Okay.
>> Airbnb have destroyed the housing market and they used to be affordable but
it's the same thing that happened with Lyft, right?
Where, or
Uber where in the beginning they're like yeah let's monopolize the market.
And put all these taxicab businesses out of business and
then once we have not monopolize it.
Our investors will stop subsidizing these rides and the price will shoot right up.
That's what happened with Uber and Lyft.
>> That's exactly what happened.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah and-
>> And now it's hard to get them to and
it's not just that it's more expensive. It's also more inconvenient.
>> Yeah, I hate [INAUDIBLE],
>> So what they're devolving into is the
old taxi system that we had here in L A. That the cabs are a disaster.
So I always defended Uber and Lyft because
we just could not get a cab in LA, right. But
now they've totally devolved ,now they're not as bad as the old days in the cabs.
But Airbnb,
Anna's main point is indisputable. Which is that they did a lot,
the trick for a lot of these folks is to grab market share.
So that's a very common business
peak right. And that means get as many customers as
possible and then hike the prices up. So look okay you got it up to $229 for
a nice house or whatever, okay. It is what it is, you pay the fee or you
don't pay the fee that's up to you, okay. $125 cleaning fee,
>> And then clean on top of that.
>> No.
>> So they're just pocketing that cleaning
fee. >> No,
>> They're putting it in their banks
>> Mel is exactly right ,full stop.
First of all I'm not doing laundry
on vacation, period okay. But second of all,
I'm not paying you $125 in cleaning fee and then scrubbing your floors,
taking out the trash, doing the dishwasher and doing the laundry.
That's a hell to the no.
No you gotta draw the line.
Just stop using it if they do that.
>> I've already done that.
So let's go to one more outlandish request.
>> This is my favorite.
>> Yeah, is it normal for a host to tell the guest to mow the lawn themselves?
Seems like a strange response given the premium being paid for
staying here to me at least.
But if that's standard then I'll roll with it.
No, don't roll with it.
I just don't want to be penalized, charged, poorly reviewed for
neglecting the lawn.
If I don't do it.
What happened to Americans?
When did we stop standing up for ourselves?
This person who posted this on Reddit is like legitimately asking like should I
mow the lawn?
No, don't mow the lawn, what?
You're not a bad person for
not wanting to most someone else's lawn on your vacation and then pay them to do it.
>> This is how the bad guys win because they don't mind asking for
absurd things, right.
They have no conscious about it.
But good people feel bad saying no,
no dude you're not going on vacation to mow somebody else's lawn.
That's an easy no, if you can't do that no,
man people are gonna run all over you your whole life.
I mean you're gonna be mowing the whole neighborhoods lawn, okay.
No, I'm not gonna imagine if you check into a hotel, you're like, okay, great.
Where's my room?
It's on the third floor, but the lawnmowers in the basement.
So you're gonna go get that.
The Hilton's got a big lawn in front.
So this might take you a while.
>> Yeah listen, if you're fortunate enough to own a property
that you get to earn passive income from.
How about you shoulder the burden of keeping that place clean, okay.
I'm not interested in this conversation.
We're not having this conversation.
I don't even like stripping the linens off the bed.
You strip the linens off the bed, bitch, okay.
Like you own the property.
I'm on vacation.
What are we talking about here?
Do you wanna pay me to strip the linens off the bed?
You don't right, I'm paying you to do that, not interested.
No you got a bunch of freaking people running around.
It's, but honestly it's a microcosm of the bigger picture.
What we see with major corporations in this country where they're like
free labor.
How can we find ways to get free labor?
They engage in wage theft.
They find ways to automate jobs that were typically done by people.
I mean, look, I know that some people like the self checkout drives me crazy.
I don't like it, it's free labor for these grocery stores, it ain't okay.
Jack.
>> Yes stop using us for free labor whether you're a big corporation or
a Rando who's doing an Airbnb.