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I was looking up Airbnb policy about giving the exact address in advance and this popped up on the sidebar when I searched about location.
I notice that Airbnb does indeed equate a guest’s concerns about a neighborhood with location, not is the location where you said it was and where it was shown to be on the map.
Second, if I knew that political unrest or current events counted for extenuating circumstances, I forgot it. Does this mean if I book a DC airbnb now for President O’Rourke’s inaugural and Trump gets re-elected instead I can cancel without penalty?
How do propose to implement that? As a teacher I would have loved for my students to read all the assigned reading but 90% of them did not. I tried various techniques including assigning grades based on reading but I didn’t find it to be successful.
We can quiz guests/students by asking for a code word, but even then maybe 1/5 will find it. I just wish AirBnB held guests accountable for their choice of not reading. Our students are still accountable for the information on the prompt and syllabus even if they didn’t read either.
You know, with current technology, it would actually be feasible to have the guest read stuff aloud and have it compared to any text, so you really could make sure a guest read it the listing or the house rules. Of course, there would be exceptions for disabilities and then Airbnb would allow all guests to say they have speech, reading, or comprehension disability without any documentation, so we’re back where we started.
@Brian_R170 well that went from feasible to not feasible really quickly. LOL. My opinion about guest’s reading is very much informed by my decades as a high school teacher. At the beginning of the term I would go over policies and “rules” in person. There was a handout that kids had to take home for parents to sign. Although it said the signature indicates that student and parent has read and understood the rules every time there was an issue, there were excuses. Parents usually didn’t support me, admin usually didn’t support me and the letter of the law wasn’t usually followed…if there was a conflict. The vast majority of students did follow the policies of course.
So it’s the same with Airbnb. Most people will follow the rules and instructions but some won’t and there is no way to force them to do so.
