I can shed a great deal of light on this topic, just … ahem, don’t ask me how I know!
okay okay, on 3 occasions, I have been socially acquainted with prostitutes. I have followed the full life cycle of their Airbnb activities.
Now where do I start? First off to say that Airbnb prostitution is rife. Every active prostitute, but for the abject low class ones use Airbnb to host sex work without the hosts knowledge. If you live in a major city, and host an apartment 1 bedroom to 3 bedrooms, I would bet the car, but not the house that commercial fornication has occurred in your premises.
The signs:
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1. From booking history, you will notice a flurry of short term stays, all within the same general area or cluster of several areas and cities ; watch out for them doubling back to cities that they have already stayed in within a month or so. Your wishful head probably thinks that these are travelling students , but I hate to break it to you !
The reason for the relatively short term stays in the same area , despite the lack of cost saving is because these women start off with zero, and housing is their biggest overhead. They make money daily, and so goes their expenses. By the end of the week, they can only afford another short term stay, but low and behold your places is booked up for the following week.
2. it’s possible that it could be a single woman , but usually in groups of two or more. Watch out for those who appear to be taking some type of gap year away from their home country, but don’t quite fit the student mould . The reason they usually travel in groups is for safety and cost sharing of their biggest overhead. Imagine working flat out on your back for one week, and 60% of your take goes to pay for an Airbnb in some upscale neighbourhood. I hate to break it to you, but it is much more rife in upscale neighbourhoods because they seek rich clientele.
3. Desperate groups of Prostitutes often pick the exact same apartment, I guess it’s a case of great minds think alike. So if your place has been used once, it’s been used on other occasions by others.
4. Time to take off your rose tinted glasses. There are various economically unstable counties where the majority of these women come from . I am writing from the perspective of the UK, but here is a small non exhaustive list :
Brazil
Albania
Columbia
Russia
Ukraine
UK ( special case will explain below).
Especially the Brazilians. If you are far down in the chain of their history of contiguous or close to contiguous bookings, ask yourself if it is possible that these women from place where the average salary is £300 a month can afford to spend £15,000 or so on Airbnb during a holiday. It reaches these sorts of sums because they use up the maximum length of stay on their visa, some over stay . In the uk it’s 6 months , so do the maths of 6 moths stay in Marleybone / Mayfair / Chelsea , and the same if you live outside of the UK for equivalent areas.
5. Its actually VERY easy to confirm whether they are , but due to the way Airbnb works, you can only do that after they have booked and you know what they look like. See, their trade depends on high visibility on various digital market places for sex. All you need to to is trawl some of these sites, filter for the general age / appearance , and you will be surprised how quickly you stumble upon your suspect….sorry, I meant guest. Once again from the perspective of the UK, here are some major websites where you can view them . I will write the general name and leave you to search the rest. Use DuckDuckGo because Google filters these sites , there is some international cross over, but if you are not in the uk 🇬🇧, research equivalent websites for your country:
adult work
kommons
viva street
secret hostess
These are the source of most Airbnb prostitutes for reasons that would need to be covered in a separate post.
5. I saw someone write that short stay / short notice bookings is the key give away ; how innocent! The short notice / short stay bookings are mostly from home grown prostitutes; they can do this easier at hotels, but sometimes Airbnb. These don’t need your Airbnb for accommodation during times they are not working, they go home to their own homes In between. The ones from elsewhere have to live where they work.
6. They come in all age groups, but the main perpetrators are between 18 and 30. Do not fall for the sad story narrative, most of them do it for Gucci handbags , boob jobs, veneers, and Loui Vuitton. Trust me, the ones strung out on drugs , with an abused history are not in a position to pay you 8 times the monthly rental value of your property; for various reasons. Take my word on that. These types or on the streets, or in accommodation provided by pimps.
7. This is a small one, but watch out for abandoned bookings or early terminations; taking into account the above 6 points. This occurs when they move to a new area, and business comes to a grinding halt. They move because they cannot afford to not make money for days on end. They often miscalculate the economic calendar of a foreign country: for example Christmas through February is the worst time for them. They will also move if they turn up at your apartment, and realise that commerce is untenable, you may be hosting right next ti a mechanics garage with no intercoms system and a flight of stairs to get to your Place for example.
8. This one is for the super sleuths. If it is in. Your power, check water, and power consumption. With the water you will notice much more used that it would be usual for the given amount of guests. Each of their clientele takes a nice hot shower , and the women take a shower after each guest. With the power, you will see clear evidence of them having spent 90% of the stay inside your apartment without any attempt at tourism.
This one is for sneaky. Most of them have two phones. Again, ask yourself why this young woman has two Iphones. Find some pretext to get their British pay as you go number, and add them to your WhatsApp. Take a look at their profile pictures which will be provocative; designed to bait customers. You can also use a burner phone to call / text Jen where the immediate response will be a price list , followed by your postcode should you feint the wish to contract.
9. The obvious: check your bins, it will be full of user condoms, used lube, and baby wipes ; a ridiculous amount of them much beyond some holidaying lass getting lucky whilst on holiday.
10. They are in some Airbnb in every town in every city. The more upscale the area, the better looking they are. I will list a few of the most active areas in London uk , and you can use this as a cypher for your own country:
Canary Wharf
Chelsea
Kensington
Marleybone / Edgeware Road
Fullham
Croydon