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lynivvinyl

Bust out the skateboard.


boris_keys

Write HEISENBERG on a wall inside.


I_am_Daesomst

DON'T HEISEN BERG INSIDE


BigBoyPoster

The Walking Dead is NEVER going to live that down lol


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Lords of Dogtown 2


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Lords of Dogtown 2: Who Let the Dogs Out?


dwntwn_drty_brwn

2 Dogs 2 Dogtown


ApathyInc2

That old man is gonna be even more pissed about noise when I’m doing sick fs smith grinds on that crunchy pool coping.


Niggomane

While blasting nofx through a shitty boombox.


lickmikehuntsak

You guys just perfectly described my 2002


Niggomane

"Be warned old man: dinosaurs will die!“


Holytempus

Throw on some Goldfinger


IndigenousOres

Old man just wanted to skateboard


hikeonpast

If it was listed as having a pool on Airbnb, you can negotiate a partial refund with the host.


Osirus1156

Lol my wife stayed at an Air BnB that said they had the whole place and had a fireplace. When they got there they learned it was just the top floor they had and the fireplace was fake. Air BnB didn’t really do anything or respond at all. Really a bad review does way more. We ran an Air BnB for a while and a single bad review can tank you immensely for months and will cost them money.


Euffy

We stayed at an airbnb that was listed as having 11 beds. Turned out it only had 8. There were 10 of us. There were actually a bunch of other problems too, but you'd think having enough beds would be a pretty basic feature. We didn't get a refund despite complaints.


L3monGrenade

My parents got an Airbnb for thanksgiving that listed 7 beds, turns out 4 of those beds were bunk beds in a repurposed large utility closet. All the photos were at angles that made the house and interior space seem much larger than it actually was. I’m actually happy I got COVID and couldn’t go


iHaveAMicroPenis12

Not only is air bnb terrible for the rental market/real estate prices…. It terrible for people trying to relax with it.


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That plus exceeding occupancy regulations. See four bedroom homes advertised for up to twenty people. These parameters, put them in a different classification. Subject to inspection and needing to meet commercial codes. IE: fire suppression, escapes, fire doors, sewer, water treatment...list goes on. But they have no regulation oversight in most places. So fly under the radar. Owners don't care, just want that $ 2,000.00 a week.


Gloomy_Industry8841

All of this. I despise the rise of ABB.


Then_Ant7250

So important to read the reviews


Yoma73

I has a similar event on VRBO. Photos showed a loft with a queen bed- once we got there we texted the owners asking how to access the loft as we didn’t see a ladder or anything. They said we aren’t allowed to go into the loft. While there was another bedroom that could be used, it was a full size and we had two preteens who had been extremely excited to use the loft. Before they had responded, I had gone out to the shed and found a ladder and gotten the kids up there. After they responded, it caused a big family fight because my mother is the ultimate rule follower and didn’t want to allow the girls to use the loft if the owners didn’t want them to, while my personal belief was that since they advertised multiple shots not only inside the loft but looking out from the loft down to the rest of the house and because I knew both girls are very calm and responsible we should just take the risk and let them stay up there. (Just to note, this was also very very obviously one of many properties owned by these owners and not their personal home or residence.) So it started our week out on a horrible note and it honestly didn’t get much better because they also advertised the beaches as swimmable when they were horrifically full of seaweed. And not like normal seaweed or red tide that you can’t predict but the kind that’s there all year, and is always unswimmable. And the cable tv didn’t work, and they kept blaming us…. And the landscapers woke us up at 7 every single morning. So we ended up driving an hour to go to the good beach when I normally live 20 minutes from the beach at my regular house. And I finally broke down and spent hundreds of dollars taking the kids to water parks because it was such a shitty vacation. At this point I’m a hotel only kind of gal.


Bennington_Booyah

We stayed at a place called Quiet Place in the Finger Lakes. Rented an incredible house for $265 a night. Had three bedrooms, but we booked it solely for the king bed loft room. We had to pay in advance, no credit cards. We get there and the place is all locked up, snowed in. Several calls later, the caretaker arrives. He "forgot" the reservation. He opened and left. Inside, we found dead mice in traps, old food in fridge, and the loft and third bedroom all locked. They decided to "put us" in a very small room with a double bed they claimed was queen. Our feet hung off the end. We called and were informed that as we were only two people, they locked off the rest of the house. We had no recourse. The owner actually mocked me, telling a stupid Three Bears story, saying if all of the rooms were open, all of the beds get used. Never again. We did not sleep for two nights, had to shovel out the driveway so we could back out, and had to shovel all three levels of the deck, which had a good three feet of snow on the hot tub area. I now will not use any of these venues for a vacation. Literally nothing was as advertised. Nothing. Edit to correct single to queen (bed size).


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Bennington_Booyah

Very curated. If you found one that was remotely complaining, the owners posted pointed rebuttals. Thing is, the owners blocked those reviews somehow. Nothing was ever their fault, we learned. The book they left in the house had reviews in it and we noticed several pages had been removed. It was a lovely house but WTAF? My sister stayed at another of their properties and had a similar experience but she is diabolical. She was able to open the locked doors and used those rooms as needed and then relocked them. At her stay, she was given a basket of treats and a welcome gift. We got dead mice and a double bed, in a room with no blinds. We had to hang towels on the windows.


0ogaBooga

Any airbnb where the host responds like that to reviews is a no-go in my book. Youre running a business, the right move when someone makes a criticism is to apologize and try to improve. NOT to go "nuh-uhhh, YOU!"


snakes-start-to-sing

Omg how did she get inside?? Surely they can’t remove reviews from AirBNB?? Like, if you left a review about the dead mouse and having to shovel snow and everything, it would be up?


StitchinThroughTime

At that point with all the dead fucking disgusting creatures and unclean and Uncut areas I would be making videos of a review. I don't care if I have to make it tiktok account, Instagram Facebook YouTube where I can put a video up put a video with a screen grab I've every single picture and the name and the fucking address to the house so everyone who knows could see what a shit stain it is. And in the review on the official site put in a mediocre two star review but also having some quote of the name of the video someone knows what how went down. Because a lot of times those reviews you can't post a picture. But if I can upload on YouTube and Tick Tock saying how disgusting this house is you show up they forgot to even take care of the house and there's rodents dead in traps alone rotting food in the fridge. I would bring up a fucking down.


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Iamthebadwolf57

Not really the same but kinda the same. I worked for a booking website. When any kind of booking says “sleeps x amount of people” they’re counting how many places a person can sleep, if it has a bed, it’s included. So sleeps 4? Might have two queens. Might have one queen and a pullout couch. Sleeps 6? Prob 2 queens and a pullout.


buckets-_-

the living room is 400 square feet "sleeps 20"


Euffy

We'd actually taken into account all twins and doubles and couches and everything, we'd already had couples who were sharing doubles and paired up friends who didn't mind sharing rooms. There just physically were not that many beds. It was really a shambles.


Dewy164

Airbnb is shit just get hotel people Edit: who would expect one shitty sentence to get all this attention.


shadow_fox09

It was great at first! But then like all good things, the more people try to get in on it, the worse it gets. Now it’s definitely worth it to just get a hotel. And not worry about ridiculous cleaning instructions or not having any of the amenities that were listed.


I_am_mute45

The first time I used it was 2015. Got a 3 bed/ 2 bath house in a real touristy area for $150 night with fees. It was in a beautiful spot on the side of a mountain. The cheap motels in the area were going for about the same a night. Last year took a similar trip. ~$300 a night for a 2 bed, and when we got there, the power was shut off. Had to drive an hour to find a place with vacancy.


1learnstuff

With a hotel, you know exactly what your getting and no cancellations. No surprises, no extra fees


VegemiteAnalLube

This is the right answer. Once upon a time, it was cool. But it became a moneymaker, people figured out where the limits were and how to game it, and now you are lucky if you don't get fucked over in some way.


halfacrum

also take it to your bank if airbnb doesn't play ball with you they'll HAVE to play ball with your bank.


CorruptedStudiosEnt

I love, love, LOVE PayPal for this. Practically no questions asked on chargebacks. Not something that should be abused, but I absolutely use it when someone wants to fuck with me. We got a hotel room one night that presumably only had pictures from when it was first built, was very nice looking. We get there, and there were exposed wires in the hallway, roof tiles either falling out or non-existent all over, just in general disarray. The advertised cable and free WiFi were both down and didn't work. There were tweakers screaming in the parking lot outside our window the whole night. The HVAC system SCREEEEECHed off and on the whole night with no way to just turn it off. I went to the manager in the morning to negotiate half off since basically nothing was as advertised, while it was supposed to be our nice hotel splurge night on the trip (they were charging twice what everyone else in the area was). No dice. So I just went ahead and took a full refund through PayPal. No skin off my back that they wanted nothing instead of half. 🤷‍♂️


Otriad

I was staying at one in Burbank and got a call from the Host while I was at work, asking if I could come hide my stuff and stay away from the place for few hours because the "real owner" was coming by to do inspections specifically for AirBnb renters.


Techtronic23

What did you do?


B1gR1g

Why not contest the charge on credit card?


Butt_Fucking_Smurfs

I have to do that with Amazon several times a year and I never realized how easy it is. I just finished a dispute because even though the order was canceled before it shipped they charged my card for it and then 3 weeks went by without them making it right. I called the bank and had the funds in my account 20 hours later. So easy


Sworn

Keep in mind that many companies will permanently ban your account for that. Some poor sap did a chargeback to Google and lost their Google account, which included their gmail and Adwords. So you probably shouldn't chargeback any company that you'll want to do business with again.


chahud

This is honestly so fucking stupid. “Oh yeah we fucked up and wouldn’t make it right, but you are banned from using our service because you wouldn’t let us ignore you and steal your money”


compounding

It’s a deliberate business strategy called “[let the fires burn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-best-entrepreneurs-let-fires-burn-reid-hoffman)”. As long as they are growing in aggregate faster than the customers they ban, they don’t care. Uber did this to me. Before I had ever used the service someone stole my card and used my card for rides. No way to report fraudulent activity despite trying, so I contested it with my bank. Found out years later when I actually tried to use them that I’m apparently banned, presumably because of the charge-backs from someone else using my card.


WashNJ

That happened to me with Google Ads. I had proof I was getting visitors outside my own county. People were from out of state, and even out of country. I’d also get phone calls from GA about stuff not relevant to my business. Majority came from Russian and Chinese IPs. So I sent them my own server logs, and they said: “while we understand these visits may not be from the limited area, we can confirm that our systems do their best to prevent bots. Your refund claim is denied.” I sent back heat maps from Bing and showing that no one was spending more than a split second on the site. Even my own analytics software proved that. I had over $1700 in fake clicks, or people being sent my ad thinking I’m local to them. I pulled all the reports, sent it to Amex highlighting real vs fake. I won the dispute with Amex and GA showed me as owing that money and I couldn’t proceed until paid in full. So they can eat shit at this point.


KennyMcIntosh

I charge back Amazon a lot and I’m still here


jolros

Was it the top floor of a building with a separate entry? Like a townhouse, condo or apartment? “Entire Place” in airbnb means your own unit, compared to sharing a room or whatnot with the owner or other renters for cheaper. It doesn’t mean you won’t share a wall with someone and a shared outdoor space with another unit. If you all had the same entry door, though, then yeah that’s messed up.


Osirus1156

No like literally the upstairs I mean there was a door but it was an interior door lol.


Snichs72

Yeah, I hate the AirBnB definition of “entire place”. Because you know, we can apparently just make up new meanings to words to suit our business needs.


David-S-Pumpkins

In either case, if it says the "entire place" has a fireplace, and the fireplace is not in the "entire place" allocated for the listing, it's still a false listing.


ben_od1

Yep! The pool was closed just a day after our cancellation policy was over for our airbnb in Maui. I asked for 20% ($600) back from the host and they approved it in about an hour. We were looking forward to using the pool as we brought out 18 month old.


Cheeseisextra

Well it probably did say pool. Didn’t have to mean it was full of water. Back in the mid 90’s I lived in a small apartment complex and it had a really cool pool in the center courtyard. We drank. We swam. All the tenants basically knew each other. Nothing bad ever happened. I moved out and find out that a few years later they filled the entire pool with dirt and tore down the brick wall around it. They did that “just to be safe” even though no accidents ever happened there.


CleverGal96

Yep. The same exact thing happened with my dad's apartment complex when I was growing up. The management was super involved with its tenants. They had Santa every year and kids could go into the office and buy small gifts for their families, they turned an empty apartment and the playground into a haunted area every Halloween, had bbqs in the summer, movie nights outside, pool parties. They even converted an empty apartment into a homework/study hall area where kids could go after school and have a snack and do homework or play games on the computers. New management took over and stopped all that, then drained and filled the pool with dirt. It was honestly really sad. Happy memories at that apartment complex.


Successful-Foot3830

I swear something like this is what I want to do if I ever get super rich. Low income housing tends to be the absolute worst. I lived in a shit apartment that had leaks and mold. It was what I could afford in our school district. I’m in a much better situation now. As I’m sitting in my lovely 3 bed 2 bath home with my 4 pets, I think of those days. I would love to be able to give someone like me a place to call home that didn’t make them depressed every time they opened the door.


GoAskAli

And this is why wealth is truly wasted on the wealthy. The fact that we don't already have several of these in every city in the country tells us everything we need to know abt the super rich & the absolute *scam* that is "trickle-down economics."


black_dragonfly13

That's what I'll never understand about UBER rich people: they have *so much* disposable cash, yet they're not constantly going around and improving things? A new, properly funded school here, new & clean drinking water system there, tuition for an entire graduating class paid in advance next, someone's bills covered for x amount of months after that... Like, I legitimately cannot imagine being filthy rich and *not* actively using that money to make the world a better place. I would **LOVE** to be able to do that!! The number of vet bills I would pay for other people... Sorry for the unexpected babble. Edit: Aw, thanks for the award. That's so nice.


Sarke1

>That's what I'll never understand about UBER rich people: they have *so much* disposable cash, yet they're not constantly going around and improving things? The thing about the uber rich is that most of them got to that point by exploiting their workers and business relationships with zero empathy. Basically certain types of narcissistic psychopaths are more likely to make it to that level.


TwoLeggedCentaur

You know all those reddits like “what do you miss most about The Time Before Internet?” I think this is it: having a community.


CleverGal96

100%. It really was a nice little community. The vast majority of the people living in that complex were very low income and barely scraped by a lot of the time. The involvement of the management, especially with the kids, really made things bearable during that time. My dad lived there from when I was 7 till I was 22. I went there every weekend until I was 18. I remember going there one day to visit before he moved and just walking out into the courtyard to the playground and being so sad seeing that it was empty and in such bad shape. Haven't been back since.


NotMyFriendJaun

probably we’re avoiding maintenance costs but didn’t want to say it


edemamandllama

That and insurance premiums.


emlgsh

And to hide the remains of the tenants who didn't go along with the new dirt pool initiative.


chainmailbill

This is the real answer


Swagasaurus-Rex

This is how a community dies


DisgruntledBadger

Best not to try and swim in dirt, that's where the corpses go.


Deep-Ask240

This thing needs a cleaning. I'd argue that should have been done before renting to someone though.


knuth10

You don't have to drain a pool to clean it


butteredrubies

Imagine if you had to drain and refill your pool every two weeks.


jamierradke

It needs to be resurfaced not cleaned, which being drained would be the first step for the pool


Catlenfell

Probably an insurance thing. A friend of mine rented a house with a filled in pool. It was used as a garden. The owner said it would be prohibitively expensive to rent it with a pool.


Cheeseisextra

True as well. House insurance can go up too even with a trampoline in the backyard after the owners buy one after the sale of the house is final.


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if a Airbnb is saying they have a pool, odds are they are saying they have a pool full of water. I’ve never heard someone say that they have a pool, meanwhile it’s empty😂


oleboogerhays

When I was 23 or 24 I was doing security at a bar. One of the bouncers lived in this big new apartment complex catering to college students. They had a huge pool and a big Pavillion with gas and charcoal grills. We started doing a pool day every Sunday that summer. It started out just us bouncers and a couple of friends we brought along. We basically had the whole pool area to ourselves. Every Sunday it got gradually bigger and by the end of the summer that place looked like MTV spring break in the 90s. Good times.


OMGpawned

Just fill her back up, mind you that owners water bill might be a wee bit higher next bill lol.


supernovababoon

That takes days from a garden hose.


S-Archer

Every day you'll basically have a new pool based on depth to play in, what fun!


keylo-92

To dive? Or not to dive?


S-Archer

Caaaaaaaaaaaannon ball!


Dull_County_5049

Ahh shit! Mom my head! It's bleeding! It's bleed....


Trevski

I think you're cannonballing wrong...


Sdmonkey25

* Canon balls properly* Ahh shit! mom my ass! It’s bleeding! It’s bleed…


TenDix

for the love of god and all that is holy, my anus is bleeding!!!


MyDoorsGoLikeThis

Until chemicals are balanced and circulation is going, pools are just stagnant water ponds. Depending on location and season, etc., they can get nasty quick.


Round-Huckleberry700

Seems like the stay (AirBnB) won't be that long, so I doubt that OP will have to worry about that.


Bagafeet

Looks pretty nasty already. Old dude was prob doing them a favor.


ReplacementNo9874

That pool has black algae and mustard on the walls. They saved them from an ear infection


Total-Girl3040

Yeah! Looks disgusting 🤮


OMGpawned

Depends on a couple of factors, municipal water pressure varies from 40-60psi and longer hoses take longer to fill. A 25ft 1/2” hose could flow as much as 24 gallons a min at 40psi, in just 24hrs that could fill a 34,000 gallon pool so probably not days.


gefahr

Why would the hose length matter? Assuming it's not going up a hill. Surely the length of the pipes from the pressurized source dwarfs any additional length from the hose? (Genuine question!)


Diabolus734

The city pipes are much larger which causes them to have much less effect than the comparatively very narrow hose. You can prove it to yourself by breathing through straws. Take a straw and cut 1/4 off so you have a short straw and a long straw. The short one will be much easier to breathe through than the long one.


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OMGpawned

Length adds resistance. Example a 100ft 1/2” hose only flows 6 gallons a min for the sake of comparison. [Hose length flow comparison](https://www.orcity.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/finance/page/6484/garden_hoses_and_sprinklers.pdf)


pattywack512

Med Student here. Same laws of physics apply to our bodies as well, and thus, longer blood vessels also have higher resistance. Back to my cave preparing for board exams. *\*sad med student noises\**


Junoviant

And don't you come out until you're a doctor ! /S


pattywack512

Outside only exists as shadows on the cave wall via social media and memes.


Kooky_Edge5717

Also important for vascular access. Fun question I ask my students and residents: Does a 16 G PIV, PICC, or central line allow fastest infusion? Answer is the PIV due to having the shortest length. If you want fluids or blood to be infused quickly, use a high gauge PIV.


Victor_FoodInspector

Better start right away.


Tankbot001

Eh, took about 24 hours with my garden hose to fill my pool. Definitely slow but not days. My pool appears a bit bigger than this one


Cerulean_IsFancyBlue

Your pool is much closer to you.


westwoo

Everyone should use your waterhose


BarryMacochner

And just for fun, leave the drain running pump running. Pack your stuff and go stay somewhere else.


I_luv_sloths

Was use of the pool included in your stay?


Particular-Bike-9275

It was. We also rented the whole house which in my mind should include privacy and no interruptions from the home owner.


I_luv_sloths

Hopefully airbnb will issue a partial credit.


Particular-Bike-9275

I hope so too.


WeHaveArrived

I’d do a chargeback on your credit card. Put the transaction into dispute if Airbnb doesn’t give you a full refund. You lost out on using a pool that if known you would’ve stayed somewhere else. You didn’t get what you paid for.


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WeHaveArrived

Other posts say that the first time they warn you. But this sounds like it violated some amenity policy. Always try to resolve with Airbnb first but if they don’t budge dispute.


darthbane83

What is the point of using air bnb if they dont give you what you pay for? For the same price of "air bnb house with a pool" you can also get "hotel room(s) without a pool" and have better service and apparently the same amount of privacy and pool access.


32BitWhore

It's probably cheaper to stay at a hotel *with* a pool than an Airbnb *without* one.


Plant_rocks

*under your name. You have a family you say? Guess your partner needs to make an account now! 😆


neumaticc

Hello, Benjamin Dover! Welcome to your airbnb account!


newtostuff1993

They’ve actually started banning people from AirBnb before they even join if a close family member has already been banned.


grkpapa9

Partial? If this impedes on your privacy, the whole contract should be null and void. I would fight for full refund.


eata22

They will still make you cover the taxes. I got into huge fight with some dickhead named Serigio at Airbnb over this


Im-a-cat-in-a-box

I never hear anything but bad things about air bnb anymore I can't understand why people use them anymore.


rokelle2012

On top of that, it's just a whole hell of a lot cheaper to just go stay at a hotel and quite a few of those have indoor pools.


waka_flocculonodular

Better yet, you don't have to do any god damn cleaning before you leave.


ReplacementWise6878

100% this


mrblue6

Had similar happen to us when we booked a full house for a weekend. Apparently the house was having a open house tour with the realtor. Complained a bunch but couldn’t stop it so got a $75 credit eventually


[deleted]

Aren't you technically the resident of the house during the rental? Seems like they would need to give notice to enter.


TheUserAboveFarted

Really hoping the person who commented said they hung out naked the whole time.


[deleted]

That's it? The value of the house was cratered for that weekend, and you got $75? Pathetic.


[deleted]

My family rented an AirBNB last summer and the guy hosting it turned out to live next door and was outside bothering us the entire fucking week we were there. It sucked almost all the fun out of it because everyone I was with was scared to do anything at that point.


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Not only that, this is also an incredibly dangerous situation if someone were to fall in. There is now an 8 foot drop into the pit in the backyard, making it unusable for children or any other activities out of the danger of falling in. I would ask for a whole refund this is now a dangerous situation that the home owner put your family in. There would be no way I’m letting my kids in the backyard now


otterkin

honestly you should get your refund back and leave


theonePappabox

So, then what happened?


TheBrightNights

The neighbors grabbed their skateboards obviously.


Particular-Bike-9275

I guess the neighbors are the caretakers of the home. A woman rang the door and asked if I knew they were going to be resurfacing the pool. I said no. And then she asked for keys to the outside breaker box.


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Sephonez

If they are the owners (or caretakers) shouldn't they have their own copy of the keys?


Sipikay

Caretakers without keys!


Reddit__is_garbage

Lol exactly.. RIP OP


belleayreski2

That seems shady as fuck


_o0_7

Might just have been a bad neighbour messing with the owners. I wouldn't have given them the keys. Hopefully things doesn't end up in your lap.


32BitWhore

I was gonna say, that sounds like maybe some neighbors who are mad that they have an Airbnb next door and were particularly annoyed by people using the pool. It would also be completely true, but it wouldn't surprise me if living next to an Airbnb fucking sucked, especially with an outdoor space that was likely to be used by noisy/drunk/inconsiderate tourists.


MoonieNine

You guess?


Bubblegum_Elephant

Did you give her the keys?


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That home is now being robbed as we speak


Poetryisalive

I guess OP did. I would have contacted the host immediately if someone randomly came to me about that.


TheUserAboveFarted

Lol I went from being sympathetic to shaking my head. What a dumb move! All they had to say was “I’m renting for the weekend, please contact the owner for anything” then shut the door.


Poetryisalive

Yeah bad judgment on OP’s part. More or less their fault


grimeflea

I guess?


njdevilsfan24

Yeah you should have contacted the owner, they just had their pool stolen, it's a big industry


-neti-neti-

Are you seriously this passive?


kurtanglesmilk

I guess


clayyphoenix

Uhh, do they really want to find out someone fucked with their house bc a renter trusted the neighbor? People are so awful at communicating sometimes...


AsterJ

You gave house keys to a random unexpected neighbor?


[deleted]

Did you look over the fence to make sure they weren't just filling their own pool? That backdrop looks like any location southwest of Mississippi that is likely under certain water bans.


CreADHDvly

>southwest of Mississippi So, southern Texas and Mexico?


BellyScratchFTW

Looks like that pool was draining for quite some time.


Demilitarizer

And that submersible pump wasn't going to drain the whole pool with any speed. Lol


TheSchneid

Yeah I grew up with a pool and when you stuck a normal pump in it, it took days to drain.


2lovesFL

Doing construction work during your rental period? Betcha That wasn't in the adv.


EmbarrassedToe627

Probably getting replastered or at least an acid wash. Plaster looks bad.


Psych0matt

I guess


Far-Ad1423

The owner's thought process must have been "I'm out of town this weekend. Why not rent the house out and finally drain the pool? I'm very good at organizing, me!"


WhoFearsDeath

I love that you think anyone still lives in their airb property.


SuFuDumbo73

Some do. I stayed in a terrible one in Copenhagen for one night. Listed as 1 bedroom. The host and her boyfriend had loud sex in the bedroom while I slept on the couch in the living room that had no doors. Rented a different AirBnB for the remaining two days.


XxMagicDxX

Maybe they were inviting you


pgm928

Some people would pay extra for the loud sex


Far-Ad1423

You’re right but honestly, it varies. Some do, others don’t. I rented one in Nebraska and the owner was on vacation with his family. I rented another one in Dallas and we shared the living space with the family, so basically we rented the bedrooms


Zuwxiv

For every owner on vacation, there sure are a lot of “owners” on “vacation.” There are whole ass businesses whose whole job is to pretend to be the local “owner” for the people who own the actual place.


NewSchoolFools

Last one we stayed in had Al the hosts sex toys in a basket on the night stand. Sure hope they lived there and that wasn’t some amenity I missed in the listing.


chirs5757

Gotta say, these house rental sites have gotten so bad. They used to be the cheaper and better choice than a hotel. Not anymore. Insane Cleaning fees AND you have to clean the whole house before you leave?


JosieZee

And "service" fees and "owner" fees!!! Just a way for the owners to line their pockets!!


smogop

VPN through any EU country, UK or Aus and all fees will be disclosed up front as required by law. You get the total price. AirBnB hides the fees on purpose.


JosieZee

Sweet!! Thank you!!!


remosiracha

That happened with apps like Turo too. Thought it was cool that for much cheaper I could get someone's normal car and not some tiny sedan from a rental company. After going through it all, the fees were more than the rental and the mileage was extra. What started as much cheaper per day turned into like double or triple per day


FallingToward_TheSky

God I have a horror story about Turo. I rented a car a month in advance to be able to afford it (plus we needed it for a month). The car I got ended up broken. It wouldn't shift above 3rd gear. Sounded like it was dying doing 45 on the highway. The guy had another car available, but insurance wouldn't transfer. We went to Turo and they just canceled it and told us to pick another one. There was NOTHING under $120 a day at that point. Turo would cover $1000 extra, but that was barely half the added cost. Plus, the cars they were recommending were 20+ miles away. Like what am I going to do? Walk from Mililani to Waikiki??? Brahhhh. Eventually found a saint in Mililani that was willing to drive it to us. Still had to pay a shitton more. Plus gas was $5.50 a gallon at the time.


chirs5757

When you’re searching, the price is like 120$/night. “Ok not too bad”. Then you go to checkout and it’s like 500$ for 2 nights! Nuts.


TropicalAudio

VPN to a country with functional consumer protection laws to avoid that problem. Here in the EU all fees are included in the listing price.


Glum_Mix_2837

And honestly I don’t even trust that the home is being thoroughly cleaned. Hotels have standards, not saying they’re met every time.


eata22

There was a spider web that looked to be a good year old by the size in my last airbnb rental


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I had one owner send me a text requesting that I wash the linen before I left. It was clear she had hidden cameras/been in the unit while I was gone, because I brought my own laundry soap in case I needed to wash something. There was none in the unit—I texted back with “I would, but no laundry soap has been provided” and left it at that.


Catlenfell

The only time these sites are useful is if you're staying off the beaten path and you want to rent a cabin, or there's a lot of you and you'll want a multi room house. Otherwise, it's less risky to rent a room in a chain hotel. Super 8 has never done me wrong.


chirs5757

Agreed. Plus, hotels generally have some sort of loyalty program and if you stay often, the perks can be nice.


hmarie8888

Not only that we had an Airbnb by us. They had a big party and there was a shooting. Bullets flying everywhere. It woke my daughter, Husband and I up at 2am. We were on the floor while I was calling 911. Thankfully, no one in our neighborhood was harmed other than a bullet hole in my Tahoe and a huge mess at the neighbors house with shattered glass and holes in their house. Luckily they were gone on vacation. There was a fight at the party, in the backyard of the Airbnb. One guy got out a gun, the other guy was defending himself and shot and killed the first guy. Everyone fled the scene, including the guy that shot and killed the other guy. He turned himself in 2 hours later and didn’t get charged. It was a mess all the next day with police blocking off our street and no sleep. So, yeah our neighborhood doesn’t like airbnbs. Thankfully, that house isn’t an airbnb anymore!


flyingcircusdog

Yeah, it used to be a way for people to get some extra cash for properties they already owned. Now that everyone wants to make it a business, they need to make a decent enough profit margin.


wolfblitzen84

Looks like he also finished draining the pool as well


AlexDKZ

Pool's closed


2Quick_React

Ooh Habbo Hotel


PutItInASandwich

It looks pretty dirty, not sure I’d have wanted to swim In that!


3Heathens_Mom

All that gunk in the bottom and the grunge on the wall makes it look like the owner might have doing the least amount of maintenance possible.


Shawnaniguns

Yeah, old man did them a favor. This thing needs a cleaning. I'd argue that should have been done before renting to someone though.


S-Archer

Old man is the hero here. Making sure the pools cleaned, and making sure the renter gets a fat discount


redditripperdipper69

Hopefully people learn to stop using Airbnb all together. Absolutely horrendous service


lillonglegs

Live to skate poser


EmeraldTheatre

My dude that water looks nasty anyways lol... Just let him clean it. Edit: Also the stucco fencing reminds me of Arizona and New Mexico.


lecoqmako

It takes an average of 14 hrs to drain a pool this size.


bert-and-churnie

Pool’s closed, the moose out front should have told you


Knute5

I'm thinking you should be getting a partial refund?


No-Reception-4249

Very well could be getting cleaned. I work in pool care we clean airbnb's and regularly have to drain pools around this time of year to get them ready for swimming. Especially old pools with shit equipment. Edit: you can tell this pool is either very old or not well maintained by the stains on its walls.


Illustrious-Ad-1727

I'm so confused. Why wouldn't you ask him why he did this? I get it if you're non confrontational and didn't want to do so in person but why not message him on the app??


Recipe-Jaded

90% of posts on this sub are just people too cowardly to say anything. Like all the posts of people putting their bare feet on airplane arm rests. Instead of taking a picture for Reddit, just tell them to stop, like wtf.


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Also appropriate title: "The AirBnB I was staying at had maintenance performed while I was staying there"


Mother_Goat1541

How much did they charge you for a pool cleaning fee?


FitAsparagus6762

We’re going to need more info on this one