Mean while in London

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Can you imagine

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I cannot. How in the world they fit 200 people in a one bedroom flat, no.

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EEK!!

Was this the party one of the forum members posted about the other day in his flat? He is in London

@RyanG

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Lordy!!!..

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Iā€™m just waiting for ā€˜party smasherā€™ to post another helpful response, cops are usually best at smashing parties, not black boxes IMHO

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Is it responsible for the owner to travel to another country and not have anyone to watch their Airbnb? Many other owners I know that are out-of-town will always have a contact close to their property thatā€™s able to respond to problems such as these (though this is much worse that Iā€™ve heard of).

Itā€™s these kind of events that hurt our industry in the media, make neighbors unhappy, and lead to regulations that allow the owner to only rent a portion of their home!

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Maybe they did but they lived on the other side of London or something. Iā€™m not sure what they could have done anyway - call the police?

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Another interesting article on London

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Interesting. They focus on Airbnb then casually mention there are multiple platforms available for short term rentals which they donā€™t mention by name. Thank you for sharing.

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Itā€™s interesting eh

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the blanked out shadow woman seemed a bit anxious, and I feel she would be anxious about any neighbours, long term or not. ā€œNo feeling of securityā€, she has my utmost symps, but she may be the type who would feel insecure in London per se. Would she be ok if the only Airb house was 3 doors away, or end of street?

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Agreed. Iā€™ve had some pretty shady, annoying neighbours in my years, that never go, at least with Airbnb she has the chance of getting a better visitor in a couple of days time :joy:

The statistical analysis was very poor and totally deceptive too. They did not declare that many ā€˜multi-listingsā€™ they identified would clearly be different rooms in the same house where a host lives and the whole house listed for times it is available when the host is away. Even the MP didnā€™t object to such listings. Oh right, your numbers wouldnā€™t look so dramatic then heh? Surely this is a breach of journalistic standards in the U.K. as the ā€˜technical editorā€™ who hosted the story would know this.

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