Hosts in the US received an email from one of the AirBnB co-founders
Where he ask the AirBnB hosts to email our
Member of congress and senators
Every day AirBnB amazes me with new crazy idea’s (not positive)
To make their decision for full refunds, no matter what the terms and conditions are of the hosts in question
Completely crazy …. If you ask me
AirBnB is to blame that so many hosts suddenly are in a financial deep end!
They are trying to cover this up by suggestions that the hosts need to ask the government for assistance
Even when the hosts had their terms and conditions in good order to protect them from what is happening right now
But because AirBnB likes to play the good Samaritan (only for the travelers), they just send an email
With the following suggestions.
although the suggestions are not bad as content, It would never be necessary if AirBnB kept
supporting their Backbone of their business model !! (incase you missed it it is us the hosts)
this is what they suggest is to do:
Our proposal to Congress
As US policymakers consider how to aid economic recovery, Airbnb is asking Congress to include you, Airbnb hosts—who share their homes or offer local tourist experiences to earn income, who make up the backbone of the Airbnb community, and of whom more than half depend on Airbnb income to pay the bills. To ease the financial strain of decreased travel, we believe Congress should:
Expand federal short-term rental tax exemptions from 14 days to 60 days to help you keep more of the income you earn.
- This would only be applicable for hosts that only rent out occasionally, but there are many hosts that do this to live off, and are running a business of it
Also this comes to no expense of airbnb ! (so easy they can get away with it)
Introduce a federal tax credit, deduction or deferral of taxes on the 1099 income earned by Home and Experience hosts
- again only for individual home hosts, and again the reason why so many hosts are a victim of the full refund policy from
airbnb is because of that policy, and there would be a lesser issue, if that policy would not been pushed
Ensure hosts qualify for expanded US Small Business Administration economic injury disaster loans
- if people are running short term rentals as a business, they would already be in this group, since they are licensed and registered ,
but this has nothing to do with the losses Hosts have occurred because of the airbnb decision of refunding in full.
because mosts hosts would not need the disaster loan!! And would also not be a burden to the community !
this all because AirBnB pushed their rule!!
Encourage lenders to make available low-interest loans that assist your small business needs as a host.
- again because of the loss , orchestrated by airbnb, refunding in full for cancelation to travelers, which were not eligible for full refund to begin with,
they would be covered by the travel insurance they have when they travel!
suddenly Hosts need to borrow money, (and basically pay for the travelers) because of a bad business decision of the airbnb founders
I am aware there are many hosts that run their business without a proper state and county license.
And have because of this even more financial hardship.
All that financial hardship could for a large part been avoided, if airbnb just would play by the rules!
Even more confusing , they changed the rules while they were playing!?!
On saturday they send an email:
(part of the content)
For that reason, our extenuating circumstances policy will now apply globally* to eligible reservations booked on or before March 14th, and with at least one night between March 14th and April 14th.
In simple terms, this means that for eligible reservations:
You can cancel reservations without worrying about cancellation charges or impact to your Superhost status
•Guests have the option to cancel reservations for a full refund
•Our service fees will be refunded in full for every cancellation
On Monday they send this:
We’re following up to let you know that our extenuating circumstances policy will now be applied to eligible reservations for stays and Airbnb Experiences in the U.S. booked on or before March 13, 2020, with a check-in date of April 1, 2020 or earlier.
how can we still believe AirBnB is taking care of their hosts??