Where are you posting your long term rental? This is what we are looking for, but got burned by Airbnb.

Dropped Airb&b as soon as they became an advocate, not a business, by donating a half million bucks to a political movement. We had been using and continue to use Glampinghub.com as our booking agent. We cancelled our account with Air b n b months ago but continue to get booking inquiries from them. We ignore these inquiries. We were skeptical about their policy to collect our sales tax in the first place, and tell us they send it in to our state….BULL DINKY we say. We will collect our own state sales tax and send it in ourselves thank you Air b and B. Absolutely , as hosts, we DO NOT trust Air b n B,,, for more reasons than one.

We support you and your efforts – our team has been hurt more times than not with Airbnb and we are beyond trying to make it work any longer. We had a damage claim north of $30K USD and were only paid out $21K USD. More recently, Airbnb had someone stay in our house for 8 nights – over $7K due to us – and now will not pay.

If you need a rental in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, then please book direct:

https://caboplatinum.com

Let us know your site and we will be more than happy to support!

Thanks for your hard work here Dan.

In 2016 wimdu was sold to 9flats, then to novasol. They are closed since semptember 2018. They now are just a front end for booking.com

I did not check all the other suggested alternatives yet – I’m afraid they are as outdated.

airbnb killed most of their competitors. Nowadays they no longer have to care about them, nor their customers.

Hey! Sorry about the year delay in getting back to you about this!

it’s a long story, of course. As all good ones are. 🙂

We wrote about it on our site.

https://www.visa-vis.com/visa-vis-travel-blog/how-we-were-banned-from-airbnb

It’s not a weird site at all but very helpful, especially to new AirBnB hosts, but your post is weird and biased so I see why you stand accused of working for AirBnB.
Of course it’s “‘hell’bent on criticising airbnb” for that’s its purpose and intent. Did you not see its URL airbnbhell? Rather obvious, isn’t it?

I wish I found this site sooner as I’ve been a professional host for 40 odd years and it confirms my suspicions. When AirBnB arrived in Australia a few years ago I joined up. It added to my bookings but nothing out of the ordinary but I soon read troubling reports of it in our national newspapers. Then I found cause for concern in their T&C. I had no trouble with AirBnB but de-listed as more concerns were published in newspapers and media.

It encourages illegal lets in many countries. It has caused stress in provision of long-term accommodation. It is irresponsible with our local by-laws regarding neighbourhood amenity. It is not a socially responsible site.

I doubt this site gains any money from alternative booking sites listed as you allege but rather graciously offers alternative agencies which have more integrity.

Hi Jerry,
I’m a “Level10” in the airbnb host community (and a “superhost” whatever that means, and am not on the payroll, and in fact, I’ve called airbnb out many times in that forum for many of the issues posted on this site.
When I asked I was told that the “levels” within the community pages was based upon the number of posts you make.
However, there are “admins” who manage different parts of the community who monitor and respond and are paid.
I have no idea what “admins” have to do to get that job or how much they are paid, and I wouldn’t want it because I’m not able to make lame excuses for a company that plain doesn’t care about hosts or guests…because they think they will always have more to replace us.

NOT SO.

I love being a host, and I would love to to find a platform that handles booking process with (actual) verified guests (including authentic ID verification and criminal background) and does what it promises well in a focused way and am willing to pay a fair percentage for those solid services… instead of another couple of dudes smoking dope on the living room couch who graduate to wanting to take over the world and make empty promises, as everyone else shoulders the cost and responsibility.

Sounds like politics as usual…and it’s not very sustainable. Any hacker can take them down. Many have made some dents, and the lack of support and accountability points to “inside jobs” as they’ve absolved themselves of any responsibility for anything in their “Terms of Service” on the surface to shut all of us up…but it’s not legal, especially if we organize…which is exactly what they don’t want, because their bubble will burst, and hopefully lead to a far better hybrid with good solid, reasonable service.

More overtly, if the system goes down, they’re toast, and savvy property owners are already choosing better options as airbnb moves into more and more 3rd world countries with fewer regulations, stars in their eyes…and economies that depend far more on “political cooperation” than in the US.