Comments on: Airbnb Rents to Those Who Lie About their Age

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 05 May 2019 23:25:57 +0000

I can’t believe the harshness of these responses.
1. The party included people under 18 who were not the children of the renters. Rental insurance will not cover if they are with friends & get hurt. It becomes the responsibility of the property owner. Owner/hosts can refuse to host underage guests traveling without a parent, guardian, or legally responsible adult.

2. Minimum age to rent of age 25 is not legally considered discrimination. Age discrimination in the USA is refusing to rent to someone over 40. It was originally designed to prohibit employers from denying employment to older applicants jobs.

Min age to rent of 25 does violate Airbnb’s terms of service. Airbnb considers it discrimination. Legally it is not.

3. I host 2 properties on Airbnb. The majority of my rentals are to people older than age 45. The statement 90% of the users of Airbnb are young cheapskates is not accurate.

4. There are many exclusive listings on Airbnb for example a palace in England, and a house in a tropical area once owned by President Trump.

If this host had disclosed to Airbnb the guests:
—were in violation of city/local/state/federal law (e.g. underage drinking or exceeded number of allowed guests)
—would not be covered by the host’s personal rental policy,
—had violated or stated they intended to violate the host’s house rules such as “no parties allowed”,
“all children must be accompanied by a legally responsible adult”,
“no extra guests not included in the reservation”,
—or was dishonest in stating their reason for the trip,
Airbnb would have supported the host’s decision to cancel the reservation.

This host went for the obvious but not viewed as legitimate reason by Airbnb of age of the booking party.

By: RickDoc Walker

RickDoc Walker — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:30:37 +0000

Interesting, but hilariously naive, that you are using a site with 90% of the user base under 30, usually in large groups, looking to party, drugs, rock n roll at the cheapest but “prestigious” places to destroy. Use a different site if you are seeking to discriminate based on age, race, and familial status. And I find it hard to believe that owners of “prestigious” properties would stoop so low and be so desperate for cash to “rent” out their prestigious properties to kids looking to party and dip.

By: Sam Gamgee

Sam Gamgee — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 02:53:19 +0000

Wow

By: Sam Gamgee

Sam Gamgee — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 02:47:13 +0000

You are a licensed realtor and admitting that you discriminate based on age ??? You are lucky Airbnb didn’t report you tHUD and if those renters had a good attorney should sue you the owner and Airbnb for millions.

By: Sue Ellen

Sue Ellen — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:10:32 +0000

If your properties are that prestigious what on earth are you doing on a platform for cheapskates?

By: David Aaron

David Aaron — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:18:29 +0000

We are realtors and property managers of prestigious properties….really? You are a professional company and you don’t know “This means the contracts you upload onto Airbnb are, apparently, trumped by the Airbnb policy” Sigh