Airbnb renters destroy couple's home

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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9462374

Easily preventable by a search for "airbnb", confined to within the last week, sorted by date:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=airbnb&sort=byDate&prefix&page...

Are there better ways to vet temporary renters online?

It sounds like at least a dozen people showed up. So if the four guests were banned from AirBNB, that means this group can do this 3 times before they need to get more friends to put their names on the rentals.

That is one problem I have with these "sharing" platforms, there currently are very poor systems for vetting sharers. AirBnB could really do a better job of investigating the backgrounds of potential renters and restrict rental access to only the people on the original AirBnB rental agreement.

> restrict rental access to only the people on the original AirBnB rental agreement.

How could they possibly do that? Handing over the key and doing the local "enforcement" is something the owner has to take care of (AirBnB could maybe help to find local services that do that if the owner is not available, but IMHO not much more)

I'm not sure there needs to be.

What percentage of Airbnb stays result in this sort of significantly negative outcome? Easily less than 0.001% I bet. They already offer a guarantee to cover almost anything that needs to be repaired/replaced and are already a de-facto reputation system themselves due to being such a popular platform.

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