Can a real Bed and Breakfast advertise on airbnb?

[alba]

Of course, heard that from Brits who have holiday houses there. We have bad weather here in UK but nothing like you guys!!

[Fendi1]

What B&B"s have a problem with is that a lot of people on Air do not pay taxes and do not have the insurance that cover business activity in a private home. When you are factor that our income is 100 % taxable (no pocket money here) and our insurance is 3-4x what the Air people pay - we can not offer the bedroom at $50 per night - it will not cover our expenses (breakfast or not). Most of the B&B people do this full time - not just to help with the rent.

[Militaryhorsegal]

@Bob_Albin

AirBnB issues all a 1099 for personal income tax reasons

Actually this is not true. In the US, if our payout is through PayPal, we only get a 1099 with our Airbnb earnings if we have 200 or more total PayPal payment receipts that total $20k or more, annually.

I regularly get more than $20k annually on PayPal (not just Airbnb) but have never had 200 payments received so have never gotten a 1099 from Airbnb in my 3+ years of doing it.

[jaquo]

@Bob_Albin

I have to laugh. I who have a real B&B who had to go before my local zoning board to get a variance to open my business, who pays about $4000 annually for insurance, who is inspected by code enforcement, and have been collecting all the proper taxes since 2005.

And I have to laugh too - do you think that we don’t?

How bizarre to join a forum just to post nonsense like that on a thread that’s four years old.

[JamJerrupSunset]

I was getting all excited about contributing till I saw a post from Koconutz and realised how old it was.