An Airbnb scam or dud can ruin a vacation. But some rental fails may be avoidable if you know what to watch out for.
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An Airbnb scam or dud can ruin a vacation. But some rental fails may be avoidable if you know what to watch out for.
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The long-time host was suspicious. He’d already rejected the woman as she did not have a long accommodation history – but he trusted Airbnb, so he said yes.
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David Prior thought he'd booked a serviced apartment on Bondi Beach. It turned out to be a dirty share house with bunk beds.
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An Auckland woman thought she'd scored accommodation for New Year's Eve. She lost $4800.
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Don't get too excited by a cut-price deal to rent a cool holiday house on Airbnb. Here are ways to avoid the scammers.
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Jerome Jacques received a call the other day from a production company looking to rent his hilltop Malibu house for a movie shoot.
He asked how they found out about his home. The answer: They saw it on Airbnb.
Which was a problem.
"I don't list my house on Airbnb," Jacques told me.
The so-called...