I agree - but isn't this then a huge out for Airbnb, in terms of reducing the number of people that will actually be covered under this? NY has its well-known laws that make most Airbnb listing contrary to State law, and in my lease (for example) it specifically says that I can't rent it out to people without the landlord's permission - which I think is similar to most boilerplate leases.
Given that, would all the damage to EJ's stuff even be covered by the policy?
It seems silly to the point of trollish to argue that the $50k guarantee Airbnb announced in a post about EJ's incident would have been designed to exclude EJ. Give it a rest.
You have really been shutting down discussion on this issue. I don't know you from Adam but I think you need to step back a little and let people discuss all angles, I honestly think you're creating a little bit of a straw man here. I think it's reasonable to debate that yes, maybe this insurance will exclude a lot of people, and if so what does that mean for AirBnB's business model?
Clearly it wasn't designed to exclude EJ, but it also likely wasn't designed with EJ in mind. airbnb is no doubt working with an insurance company, and if that company finds an "out", they're going to take advantage of it. Like most all renter contracts, it excludes subletting without consent, which is what EJ may have been doing.
After mentioning EJ specifically in this post and very specifically mentioning that they will take care of her not taking care of her would be 'suicide by media' at this point.
If you thought what happened so far was ugly I'd hate to see what would happen if that were the case. Can we move past this?
Sure it is all words but they are on the company blog this time, not in a forum and to me they come across as written by a man that has seen the Elephant in person.
Specifically: "We will extend this program to EJ and any other hosts who may have reported such property damage while renting on Airbnb in the past."
Let's definitely have a 19-comment argument speculating about the worst possible case scenario with the $50,000 guarantee Airbnb just announced, because that will definitely pump the oxygen back into the thread.
Given that, would all the damage to EJ's stuff even be covered by the policy?