so your with your camera you can see what they are doing in the living room? that would put me off…
Ah, you ask them, that answers it.
I’m somewhat joking about the outdoor cameras. I’ve had a Ring doorbell right by the entrance gate for over two years and each year has been better than the one before. I see why people at a place like @cabinhost’s don’t want cameras. They want to shoot guns and pee off the deck railing so don’t want to be observed outside.
I’m one of those that does not want to stay in a place with an indoor camera. Like a host who responds to reviews it just doesn’t sit well with me. The beauty of a market economy is that is doesn’t matter what I or other hosts think, it only matters that you have plenty of bookings which you do.
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That was Hidden Haven. 
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Ah yes! Still I wouldn’t be shocked if cabinhost were to attract a similar demographic.
Plus hers is in the South and Cabin’s is in the North.
Not trying to restart the Civil War, just stating a fact! 
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Oops. I thought NC was the north!!! Need to look at my maps again. k9 will scold me. That’s right Mason Dixon is in Virginia, bad me!
The word NORTH threw me off! LOL!
Bah Hah… okay, I got mixed up because West VA was originally part of Virginia. Clearly, I need to study up on my history!! K9 may feel free to scold me hard.
The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason’s and Dixon’s line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America. It is still a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia (originally part of Virginia before 1863).
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Amazing - I can’t understand why anyone would feel uncomfortable because of outdoor cameras - surely they just show you coming and going from a property.
Concerns about indoor cameras I can understand.
Correct @cabinhost I’m in North Georgia…I’m in the woods totally surrounded and have had to learn quick!
My outdoor battery operated cameras (Arlo), disclosed in photos and house rules, have paid for themselves. My house rule reads: “SECURITY: Lock all doors and windows when leaving the property. The property is equipped with exterior cameras. Cameras are not monitored for guest safety in any way and should not be relied on by guests for personal security or security of their belongings. Exterior cameras should not be touched, obscured, or modified in any way that would make them inoperable. There are no interior cameras.”
My occupancy has been great and some guests will give a node to the entry camera upon first arriving…but most likely fail to read and never recognize them (total of 5). They also provide me, as an entire home Airbnb, a bit of piece of mind.
Find the camera in the picture ( time to rake leaves ;-( ).
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Ah, gotcha! I don’t think that attitude is exclusive to America, btw 
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For whats it’s worth…I received a somewhat positive/negative review from a guest who liked to test his masculinity by peeing off my front deck. His review was very positive at first but his verbose review put his backhanded jab after the “…Read more”…thus I didn’t respond.
He sheepishly paid to have my deck scrubbed after my cameras showed his stream was not as long as his long winded review.
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OMG what an ignorant… I was going to say “pig” but I like pigs. Good to know he got caught. I was once quite shocked to see a guest spit on the pavement outside my house - not just a little one but a full-on huge gob. I don’t have cameras, I just happened to be looking out of the window at the time. It felt really disrespectful (I do have a bit of a thing about spitting though, to be fair). He was so super polite and well-mannered in person, I was taken aback by it. And no, he wasn’t from a country where such behaviour is commonplace. He was from USA or Canada, can’t remember which.
Not surprising. Gross.
It does seem like basic US history and some people in the South are quite particular about it but I’d hardly scold you.
There are some folks down here that have issues with borders but it’s with Fla and Tenn. @konacoconutz may enjoy the dispute and laugh as much as I do.
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I once had a guest peeing in my garden, for reasons known only to him. He didn’t expect me to be at the balcony at that time, it was in the evening, so he was really surprised when I shouted at him. 
He wasn’t an Airbnb guest, so unfortunately I couldn’t leave him a review. What a nerve!
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I’m pretty laissez-faire, as they say, not particularly prudish or house-proud and let some things go that other hosts wouldn’t. But peeing in my garden?? Get the F out with that!! Nowhere on this planet does that count as ok. I’d hose them down until they drowned,
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It does seem like basic US history and some people in the South are quite particular about it but I’d hardly scold you.
[/quote]Hanging head in shame. And here I consider myself a history buff.
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I’ve seen so many men peeing where ever they want during my life that I can only surmise the reason is “because they can.” He was peeing in your garden because he was too lazy to walk the distance to the loo.
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