I am doubting this data points. AirBnB has virtually no background checks and people are not robbing away houses en mass. Why AirBnB has such a different track record vs Car2Go?
80% of the rentals I've been in weren't their primary home, so even if someone was to rob the place, there wasn't much to take. The most valuable thing would probably be the TV, but most places only had a 32-40" tv which goes for a few hundred bucks new.
While people aren't robbing Airbnb homes, there are several cases where they are getting completely destroyed.
Especially when you have announced who you were and provided contact details before you stole the TV. Maybe the theft just isn't worth it at that point.
If I want to steal a TV, it would actually be better to rob my neighbor's house when they are away. They will never know it is me, and I don't have to pay them for access to their house.
The article is pretty clear about theses instances happening when they deactivated their background check. They may still provide more, but if they aren't check, it's meaningless.
> I also think it would be easier for bad actors to get away for AirBnB robbery by simply claiming that missing items didn’t existed.
Sure easier, but as the comment you were responding to said, theses aren't primary home, they doesn't contains much things that are worth stealing. Sure the renter will be able to claim he isn't guilty, but at the end of the day, if it takes you a day and cost you 100$ to steal 120$, it's not worth it.
> From economics perspective, it is absolutely amazing that AirBnB hasn’t became a gold mine for the professional thieves.
It's more like a coal mine, sure there's money to be made, but you can't always make them profitable.
Simply put, I imagine there is more money is stealing cars.
As to "selling the house", this often requires a serious amount of paperwork and is harder to do.
Your average AirBnB probably has under $1k worth of stuff with any sort of resale value - a TV or two, maybe the smaller appliances.
You could cause plenty of monetary damage by smashing holes in the walls, but that doesn't benefit the thief much.
Accounts that abuse houses can and do get negative reviews visible to future hosts, fines/fees from the homeowner enforced by the platform, or even banned (along with government IDs and Facebook accounts they have verified).