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More Airbnb advice for Payton! · Johnjay & Rich On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Peyton was talking about getting an airbnb for a possible
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  Speaker 1: wedding reception and how difficult that is. Melinda, are you
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  Speaker 1: in the airbnb space?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not, but my girlfriend was.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened?
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  Speaker 2: So we had she'd gotten an edification that this mom
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  Speaker 2: was wanting to rent it out for a college graduation party.
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  Speaker 2: She talked to me about it. We're sitting here going, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're in their early twenties. Okay, shouldn't be too terrible, right, right.
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  Speaker 2: We get to the airbnb after they had checked out.
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  Speaker 2: We went the next day after they had checked out,
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  Speaker 2: because they checked out at like five o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 2: In her and I were like, we're not going over
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  Speaker 2: there tonight. Show up the next morning. We find almost
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  Speaker 2: every window is broken, There is damage to multiple cabinets,
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  Speaker 2: The floor looks like it had been torched in multiple areas.
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  Speaker 2: Woh wow. Like there was scorch marks on her carpet,
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  Speaker 2: there was scorch marks on the hardwood. And we're sitting
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  Speaker 2: here going what the heck happened? Get into the bathroom,
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  Speaker 2: realize it's just flushed, and they're getting a haznut company
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  Speaker 2: out there to take a look at it. And she
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  Speaker 2: gets told it's a complete demolition.
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  Speaker 3: What did they do?
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  Speaker 4: Like did they have like a fire performer gone wrong?
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  Speaker 3: A party?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Like we never ended up finding out what fully happened
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  Speaker 2: because the mom who rented it claimed this was not
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  Speaker 2: the kids, Like, this wasn't them, someone else had to
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  Speaker 2: have done this.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's I mean, I think if you rented Airbnb,
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  Speaker 1: who if there's damage to it, the person who rented
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  Speaker 1: it as is responsible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they have a max. So the mom ended
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  Speaker 2: up being Airbnb tooker for ten thousand dollars that didn't
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  Speaker 2: even cover nearly all the damage.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, full demolition, right, you got to start all over.
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  Speaker 2: And because of Airbnb's rules, you cannot have cameras inside
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  Speaker 2: the house.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so they couldn't even see what happened, Like what?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we we never got the answer on what
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  Speaker 2: happened and caused all the damage inside. We did get
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  Speaker 2: answers as to what caused the damage of some of
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  Speaker 2: the windows, which I don't know how they were playing
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  Speaker 2: with and everything else in the house, but it was
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  Speaker 2: peing pong balls, golf balls, and we're just like, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened is she had demolished the house and
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  Speaker 1: rebuilt a new house.
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  Speaker 2: She ended up demolishing it, sold the property, and has
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  Speaker 2: done with Airbnb after that. She will never do another.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what a headache, like the liability you have, that's insane.
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  Speaker 4: I've never heard of something that got so damaged that
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  Speaker 4: they had to take it all down, wreck the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: She's probably why I have those like thirty five hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars event cheese nowadays, because those are people's homes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes when they come back to That's crazy, are you?
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  Speaker 2: She she had to demolish it, and the main reason
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  Speaker 2: it was demolished was because of the sewer water damage
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  Speaker 2: and then because of the fire damage.
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  Speaker 3: Well Peyton doesn't even like golf, so yeah, good, it's
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  Speaker 3: too hot outdoor activities are for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Melinda, thanks for calling in and sharing that story
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  Speaker 1: with us.