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Needs onion logos to confirm. Not sure if satire or not
GermanShepherdGuy
AirBNB probably the best way to get monkey pox that there is around.
Midgarmerc
Onion hasn't written satire for years now cause they don't have to anymore. They just put a microphone out and let the content come to them
Yeastieh
As someone who lives in the area…who really wants to go to beacon?
LazyBrownFox
This shit might be funny anymore:(
HeroniMouse
Hilarious. Also fuck Airbnb
Excultist
I can't tell if satire or not
gunnexx
Should come to Ireland! Pay Airbnb prices for actual rent
Sully0811
Even Adam Smith hated this kind of parasite.
DiracsDelta
Passive and unearned income is taxed at a lower rate. Tell me again how hard work is rewarded.
finetoroastasimamarshmallow
I fucking HATE airbnb! The loud neighbours leaving trash everywhere? Airbnb!
MassiveKy
We need to implement need before greed laws smh
lackinglife
I'm assuming satire but still a little too true
pandajack
The best satire is always a little bit true.
Crowlands
It's a little too "Mask off". Like, they think it, but they won't say it.
Usainbold
Friendo2
Stop using airbnbs
DeadeicPrints
The onion is working hard to outpace reality.
Remishnok
entitled much?
Brunomars1
Ten friends went to Hawaii and rented a huge five bedroom Air B&B. It was costly but not as much as any of the big resorts.
RemtonDulyak
Please, tell me this is the Onion.
johnvilnis
Oh the horror. There should be a law to stop families buying houses to live in. /joke
eightyearplan
https://seattledsa.org/event/housing-justice-work-group/all/
Armyguy8382
Not sure if this is satire or not.
ratfaceddog
Sorry to hear that.
lronMaiden
"Shelter and warmth" gave it away. Those leeches would never use so civilized language when talking about things "done wrong" to them.
SaltCollector
Honesltly I'm not sure if the comments saying they're unsure if it's satire are satire. Hell what if my comment is satire.
ratfaceddog
They’re not satire either way, but they’re probably not in earnest, either. Mostly people regurgitating the standard response to the Onion.
RAH9000
That makes it the best satire
HedonistBeard
A big hint is how the family that just wanted a home somehow outbid the bloodsucking parasite.
Sensiblyinteresting
https://www.theonion.com/airbnb-owner-outbid-on-house-by-family-that-just-going-1849492178?utm_campaign=The+Onion&utm_content=1663609502&utm
Armyguy8382
Thought so. But I but if we tried we could find at least one real story like this.
Sensiblyinteresting
Deff way more than one. Also countless of air bnb owner excited he outbid a family for a new rental property they were just going to live in
evoroadster
Unfortunately this is the general attitude of short term rental owners here in Hawaii. New law requires a minimum 90 day lease.
NKato
This Hobbs dude is fixing to catch some double-aught.
Netskimmer
Clearly satire.
pork4brains
Is it though? Black Rock inc. wants your house
szepasszony
The article is, but of course it is something that is happening constantly just the same.
jackwagon311
IsItTho?.jpg
QuartzPoker
Like myth and legend, satire always contains truths at its core.
ratfaceddog
Yathink?
MortyMaxwell
Fuck Air BnB.
rabidCOVIDphysician
Responsible for taking some of the most lively places on the planet and reducing them to ghost towns of empty instagram houses.
Comet260
Outlaw and dismantle Air BnB.
GravyEducation
My poorly thought out rule, you get two. One to rent for income, one to live in. Then you're done no more homes for you
DiracsDelta
I like my poorly thought out rule better. 1st no tax. 2nd 50% sales tax. 3rd 100% sales tax. 4th 150% etc. taxes go to affordable housing.
GravyEducation
Gnakenheimer
No second plate of food until everybody has had their first plate of food
RageAgainstTheCoffeeMachine
If you can afford two: you most likely don’t need that extra income. Just let someone else buy it and fix up your first home.
GravyEducation
My reasoning is I still think it would be okay to have one property as income but it should never be extravagant. I dunno I ain't no expert
Arbitrarynamehere
The concept of a vacation home is fine but all landlords suck and should get Mao'd
GravyEducation
What if we had more options for short term leases and rent control, so the people who need to get on their feet again have an option 1/
GravyEducation
(Like in the event of a fire or something) and work towards a system where landlords aren't a thing anymore? Like we can't snap and fix this
SilentHowling
It's more about zoning to me. If you can afford multiple million dollars homes across the country, sure go wild. But single family homes 1/2
SilentHowling
Need to be in investment protection zones. No more than one property per and if you the owner doesn't live in the house punitive taxes. 1/2
SilentHowling
Seattle has been doing that I think because of Chinese investment money buying up west coast property to sit empty. 2/2
CE0485
Air B&B when you want to go to someone’s home pay them more then a hotel and also clean up after yourself…..
mybrothersmario
and pay to do the cleaning!
nomorehate
I've gotten a couple here in NC that were cheaper than local hotels and also private, but that's really just the rural mountain areas.
clashatdemonhed
Don’t forget that they allow cameras in every room but bathroom and bedroom. Enjoy being watched
Ruderali
While also contributing to a global homelessnes epidemic. We've been deliberately setting up outreach programs in front of the building /1
Ruderali
Many of our clients used to call home. After lockdown eased up looks like everyone is converting rentals to air bnb. /2
mercdaddy
Unless you're with a group, go with a hotel. No sense in paying the same price and also getting a list of chores to do before checkout
jj999124
Yeah when you have a large group bnbs end up way cheaper. And some rural places might not have nice hotels
Sh4dowWalker96
and from what I hear, do fecking chores and have a curfew
BigFatFailureTurtle
Every one I've got has been half the price of a hotel, sleeps more people and gives you more facilities.
CannotBeBanned
Sometimes they're cheaper. Mostly it's the convenience of paying for a kitchen.
GuacamoleMoleMolester
I can make toast in bed, you're not my mom!
danishjuggler21
IT’S! FUCKING! EMBARRASSING!
ftzo
ok, but I'm staying in a vrbo tonight and I baked cookies, which is tough in a hotel room or when roadside camping in the rain
CE0485
Why do you need to make cookies on vacation…..
viila
If a hotel provides a clothes iron you can make cookies with it. It gets hot enough to cook and bake with.
NLOVNI
Grilled cheese
Kuvajainen
Thius is the way. I also like your username, although it's probably not meant to be the Finnish word I'm reading it as!
TChallaVanDam
Elaborate?
Kuvajainen
Also I have made toast and fried eggs with a hotel room clothes iron, can confirm that it can indeed be used for cooking!
Kuvajainen
Viila is the Finnish word for the tool file. It can also be used as a verb to describe adjustement of something, sometimes maliciously.
viila
Kyllä se on juuri se.
Hexxxxxxxxx
So what is viila? I was able to translate your last comment
Kuvajainen
No sehän meni sit just eikä melkein!
toomanymemesandnotenoughmemeory
Is this Onion? Cuz I can’t tell the difference anymore ???
astraIvoid
Considering how insane the housing market is in that part of NY I would be shocked if this is satire.
kojenk
Its all the atittude the present market behaves like without bothering to putting it into words. Except this article just did.
CannotBeBanned
Thing is, there are people all over that espouse these actual opinions.
magister333350
It appears you know my area. They say "we want to help the housing problem & poor" then go full NIMBY and refuse everything that would work.
SofaH3ro
It's the Onion, but you wouldn't know with OP cropping out the source like a chud
WhenIsItNotAGoodTime4Pie
Those damn subterranean cannibal horse people
TChallaVanDam
Yeah. Posts without sources are wack. Step your game up @op.
HedonistBeard
You can tell it's not real by how the family that needed a home won the bid.
IraqiWalker
Too real
mehimbored
Starcatcher1986
Might not be name-brand onion, but yeah, obviously satire.
theoriginalgiga
I wouldn't say obviously, I fully well expect this sort of behavior from the rich and the article siding with them
colinardo
L'Oigñon
yalczero
I wouldn't say obviously because look at the timeline we exist in.
Sensiblyinteresting
Quality name brand onion I assure you
darknyght00
Not obvious enough. Some people are real fucking monsters and would say exactly this with absolute zero irony
HedonistBeard
It's obvious because the blood sucking parasite with all the money lost the bid.
reynoldser
I would say it is obvious because no way a regular family looking for a home could outbid these folks
FelixTheAnimator
We were outbid on the first 3 houses, but we got the fourth!
reynoldser
Congrats
ElbowDeepInAllTheThings
The Shallot?
DelCorazon
“La Ciboulette”
VolcanoHerder
Damn that username is a fun amalgamation of this site's best and brightest
TheStarkKnight
Agreed!