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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. We're ready. A couple of stories

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Speaker 1: recently about airbnbs, and as I said earlier, remember a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, they were all the thing airbnbs.

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Speaker 1: People were turning away from hotels and staying in airbnbs. Recently,

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Speaker 1: the bookings have gone down in a number of them

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Speaker 1: because the guests are saying that the rules are too harsh,

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Speaker 1: cleaning fees, lists of chores, that kind of chores. This

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Speaker 1: is what happens when you stay in an airbnb. Some

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Speaker 1: people have been asked to do incredible things. There was

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Speaker 1: a woman I was reading about. He actually she booked

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Speaker 1: into an Airbnb and she said the surfaces were unclean.

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Speaker 1: She didn't feel that property was clean. You pay a

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Speaker 1: cleaning fee and there was a moldy sandwich in the bin.

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Speaker 1: So she said that she went online and told them

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Speaker 1: about this and said she didn't want to pay the

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Speaker 1: cleaning fee. Next thing she knows, the host storms into

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Speaker 1: the house, grabs all her stuff and throws it out

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Speaker 1: onto the street. This is the problem is that you

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Speaker 1: did with a human, and each place you stay has

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Speaker 1: a different human.

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Speaker 2: Give me, give me a machine, any tape.

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Speaker 1: Or a hotel where there's a strict code because there

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Speaker 1: may be one airbnb you'll stay out where you can

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Speaker 1: take your pet and you can have the best time

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Speaker 1: of your life. Next one you stay at may be

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Speaker 1: a very different story. Jenna, who's our social media guru DCP,

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Speaker 1: she said that she stayed in one in La where

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Speaker 1: they paid a cleaning fee, but they were told they'd

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Speaker 1: be paid they had to pay extra because they dirtied

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Speaker 1: the towels. And she said, we didn't dirty them. We

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Speaker 1: used the towels. But that's yeah, that's what she said.

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Speaker 1: We haven't dirted them, we've used them.

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Speaker 2: Is the old school way.

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Speaker 1: No, she said it was just normal tawel use.

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Speaker 2: So that's not normal towel used when you do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you do at home, Brenda, but

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Speaker 1: some of the stories here that people said that they've

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Speaker 1: had to do. You know, you've got to load the dishwasher,

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Speaker 1: empty the dishwasher, put out the recycling. Some people have

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Speaker 1: been asked here not to use the kitchen. Cooking in

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Speaker 1: the kitchen is not allowed, but you can prepare a

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Speaker 1: simple breakfast of oatmeal between seven thirty and nine thirty.

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Speaker 1: After that you were not to go into the kitchen

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Speaker 1: we are having. There's quiet hours after seven thirty pm,

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Speaker 1: which means you're not allowed to shower. Some of the

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Speaker 1: rules are really wacky.

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Speaker 2: I got to admit I never look at the rules

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Speaker 2: when I go in for an airb.

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Speaker 1: You just grab the towel and go.

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Speaker 2: Because usually it's not made of the books that it's

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Speaker 2: Usually it's friends of ours. I think we've got some

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Speaker 2: weekend away, and it's always in a regional area. It's

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Speaker 2: not what we did stay in the city. One time

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Speaker 2: we're watching a show and we're at this airbnb in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the city. That was pretty cool, But

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Speaker 2: I had nothing pretty cool. I had nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with it. I didn't, But did you?

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Speaker 1: But when you left, like in a hotel, you can

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Speaker 1: just leave your towels on the floor and you you know.

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Speaker 2: Off you go.

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Speaker 1: There's a list of chores and you The hard thing

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Speaker 1: is you want to feel like you've got a weekend

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Speaker 1: somewhere lovely, rather than you're in someone's house and there's

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Speaker 1: a list of chores and everywhere you look there's a

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Speaker 1: post it note telling you to do something. It's got

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Speaker 1: to relax