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oh yeah. a good host friend was told by a city inspector, when she saw paint cans in the hallway, that he was in violation for not getting permits to paint.
“Lady,” he said, “there are 3,000 cities and counties in the U.S. and not one of them requires a permit to paint.”
When the idea was being kicked around for city inspectors for our AirBNBs here … everyone was adamant that NO WAY would they ever let a city inspector in, given rampant incompetence.
I was accused of having a rooming house because there were locks on the 3 bedroom doors.
Other than that he pointed out that the back door needed resealing, etc. Which all in all was helpful.
Guess I’ve been lucky, I’ve had decent home inspectors. Depends on their background – one used to be a roofer, so he was all over the roof and not so genius on the electrical. Had another who had an HVAC background, so I got some extra expertise there. I don’t expect home inspectors to know everything about everything, as long as they meet certification requirements.
@PuppyLover speaking of home inspectors, the one I had last month for a foreclosure I bought across the street didn’t seem to know enough about electrical and ended up destroying the hot water heater costing me about $1800 tonhavr replaced. Turns out he didn’t read the notice placed on the panel to fill the tank before turning on the circuit breaker since the house had been winterized.
I now… people are asking what the difference is with Serviced Apartments!
Great article. Having been a host since 2012, I’ve certainly seen all these changes. I do miss the earlier years when guests expected to interact with their host and the government ignored us. Anyone hosting needs to understand that the rug can be pulled out from under this source of income by Airbnb or government requirements at any time. It is, after all, a market, and subject to change.
Pssst, y’all … Dario only has 7 listings now. The highest rated ones have only 4 stars, the majority are rated even lower.
And I get beat up when one drops to 4.6! The horror…the horror…
Can’t say I’ll miss him. I wasn’t aware hosts here were familiar with Dario. If I saw a 3.5-star listing in Seattle chances were it was his.