@Susan17
I fear that your excessive and , in my view, irrational optimism , which I call naïveness, might be related or amplified by your local perception of the problem, or biased by your contacts with the Irish police, and / or with local newpapers.
We are not at all in a worldwide mediatised drama where we, AirBnb hosts, are the embodiment of truth and are fighting against the lies of Big Corp.
This is NOT the reality of the picture. It might be the reality of the situation in Dublin, but it is definitely not the situation in France.
In France a good press coverage in favor of hosts, as did the Guardian recently ( link in previous messages ) is simply UNHEARD OF .
And I'm not saying UNHEARD of in 2019. I'm saying UNHEARD of since the creation of AirBnb
The ONLY criticism which people hear in France, with the exclusion of anything else, comes from
a) the Hotel industry / lobby on the right hand side of the political spectrum , which AirBnb uses ad nauseam in its PR exercice.
b) the disparate , non unified mass of city dwellers who are unlucky enough to live in a multiple rentals buildings. These unlucky guys wage a war on a "building by building " basis without any coordination
c) those concerned by the housing crisis in the larger cities, on the left hand side of the political spectrum
These three categories will never unify their efforts because they have no common interests ( unlike us) They currently occupy the whole contestation scene in France. There are the ones who get the press coverage. Period.
You want to ad to this list the rental owners who ( everybody thinks ) make a huge amount of money with their listings ? Who ( so the press says) in large cities show no regard for city regulations limiting the number of nights, and do not even care to officially register ? GOOD LUCK to you.
NO WAY ......you'll never get a french journalist write an article on abusive guest behaviour being encouraged by AirBnB fu***d business model in the short term rental market.
Yes you will get their ear if you let the press know that your appartement has been ransacked and trashed. But the press will never make the link between your problem and AirBnb Business Model.
AirBnb is definitely cool.
Fighting against coolness is impossible.
Only when the coolness is publicly declared to be wrong or evil, only when the coolness is unmasked and the abusiveness revealed to everybody by the Court, then the abuse will stop.