thank you for this great advice and @Sarah_Warren
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Are you following these excellent hostās advice? Keep us posted on your decision
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Iām re-reading what I posted and Iām like āah, I sound so pushy!ā, but I would be terrified of getting either the runaround or another cancellation, and then a bad review to top it all. So not worth it if you feel confident you can get even a partial booking. Heck, I would even take no booking over the hassle. If it were me, Iād fully-refund to get a clear conscience, wash my hands of it, and then stop responding, lol.
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Maybe Iām missing something. Why are hotel and Airbnb prices so high in Seattle? Is there some event happening there? Or is it always like that?
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Yes I am. If I can get 3 days booked it would surpass what they would have paid out for a 7 day stay.
THey got me though when they canceled because itās their daughters graduationā¦ maybe they are full of it but that is why I felt sorry in the first place. Iāve never given in, always say to guests wanting discounts or anything of the like "you know the rules or you should have before you booked, this is a business that I rely on. Not my fault itās yours. NO freebies. If you disagree Iām sure you can find another placeāI am sorry you had bad luck but it happens to everyone.
Will keep all posted on the outcome of the situation !
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ALWAYS like that. itās like san francisco itās ridiculous. Anyday now there is a city council vote to ban short term rentals unless you are a primary resident. The proposed law would require hosts who rent out non primary residences to only rent 90 days or less a year. if you rent more you need a $110 license of some kind, a Business license., House inspected to make sure it is up to code. etc. They are going to make people like us who rent most of the year operate like a hotel. The decision will be made by end of this month.
ANd I was just about to add a 3rd property. The rental game here is unreal. friends of mine pay $2200/month studio one bedroom in a āokayā part of the city. My 2.5 B/3BA with a garage in a nice area mortgage is only 2050/month. It is mind blowing what people pay. HIgh end airbnb rentals go from 350- $1000 a night. ENtire apartments are being put up by developers that can afford it, and they basically have 40 hotels running all at once. God only know how much they are raking in. I hope this law does not passā¦ ahhā apartments was my next move.
go to kayak.com look for a hotel for a 1 night stay (picka weekend) in seattle. see how outrageous those rates are.
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It sounds typical of a highly regulated environment on a coast. Iām so glad to live in the midwest, lol.
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Thanks, @Rory_Taylor,
Thatās very interesting. I had no idea Seattle was so expensive. Any particular reason why? I know SF is a very busy place with a lot going on, and CA is very crowded generally. So in that case, it is not so surprising. I know Seattle has Microsoft, but I donāt know much else about it.
Coming to a town near you lol
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itā s one of the most beautiful clean cities in the US! come see it sometime in the summer. its 85 and sunny (like usual) right now, every day. Boston, NYC, Philly, and many more get much more rain than we do. Silicon valley is moving all their people up here. last year they transplanted 75k amazon employees up here.
- we ave 36" rain a year. that isnāt even top 10.
-last summer we went over 90 days with only .086 inches of precipitation - no humidity or gnats (god i hate those buggers (grew up in philadelphia)
-only state that has lakes, water falls, 4 seasons, mountains, beaches and a true natural rainforest
Love it here as you can probably tell. But shhhh don;t tell anyone I said this. WE don;t want more people moving here itās a secret. ā¦My bet in 10-20 years if not sooner it will be the new SF but better because it is much warmer in summer months.
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I also heard San Francisco is going to start making their registered hosts disclose all the assets. Like furniture and linensā¦ so that they can be taxed!
Why shouldnāt Airbnb hosts be subject to the same taxes other business owners have to pay?
You know I am getting tired of your combativeness. I guess taxing cutlery is something we should all be ready for. Youāre always on my back for making a simple statement. There was no editorializing. I never said ANYTHING about letting hosts get out of taxes.
Read the article for yourself.
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I donāt see taxing business property as a problem. We are running businesses, so we are liable for business taxes. You get taxed on the value, not the price of the business property and you only have to list property that you are claiming as a deduction on your tax return. I assume that most of us donāt have cutlery of a value that would cause a large tax burden.
Fair enough. But the US has quite a lot of nice bits. And they mostly arenāt insanely expensive. For example, I lived NCās Triangle, which is pretty nice. (Actually, much of NC is pretty nice, but unlike the Triangle, there isnāt much infrastucture in most of NC.) And, by and large, the Triangle isnāt insanely expensive. Chapel Hill is a possible exception, but then Chapel Hill is unusual in a number of ways.
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The Triangle and Seattle are simply not comparable. In the Triangle area, want to build a new housing sub division? There is plenty of land ready for building. Seattle you have water and mountains which contain the development to a very finite area. Many coastal cities have the same physical barriers to far-flung development which keeps land values very high comparatively.
I have lived in all of these places, along with many dying mill towns across this country, and land values are a function of desirability, wage levels and how much land there is available.
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Hi @anon67190644,
I see. Thank you, thatās very educational. These are matters I know little about. Where did you live in the Triangle?
It will be the new SF because anything below the 40th parallel will be uninhabitable.
When I was in the SEA-TAC area I stayed by the airport and rode the train to Seattle because of expensive hotels.
Yes wonāt argue you with you on that. There are dozens and dozens of cities and places as (or more)beautiful and amazing in the U.S. REnt and housing prices are so ridiculous here because we have so many transplants itās unbelievable.
-Seattle was #1 fastest growing city in 2013 (2.9% y/y)
- Seattle was #3 (2.3%) behind Denver at (2.4%)
My mother was looking to buy a townhouse outside of downtownā¦ it took her 6 months to get oneā¦ she made offers on dozens. even offered $75,000 more than asking price on oneādidnāt get it. These houses donāt stay on the market longer than 24-48 hours. She also said the house she really wanted that she put up the extra 75k, she lost it because the buy paid straight cash. $700,000 townhouse. You can list your place here for $100k more than it is āreallyā worth and it will sell no doubt.
- airbnb has been in our Newspaper a few times now and the city is voting to basically kill short term rental businessā¦ itās B.S.! THey do have a valid argument though. In the popular apartment areas some of them are literally bought out, every one in the buildingāall rented via airbnb. like 40 mini hotels!āwish i had thr $$$ to have a full blown airbnb apartment complex hahaha
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yeah hotels are literally $400+ a night. even 3 star Sh***y ones