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0 pointsmangeletti9y ago0 comments

It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses.

I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. You also have to be inspected by the health department. Same goes for running a hotel. That stuff all costs money, and it's not up to a private business (AirBnB) to determine how to enforce such laws, even though their existence does change the landscape.

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tedmiston9y ago

It seems my phrasing was unclear. With "to sleep and eat breakfast", my intent was: a customer to sleep somewhere and eat breakfast there (as the end user), not for a business to serve that customer.

I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.

mangelettiOP9y ago

You're phrasing was clear. The person making the analogy was comparing the drivers to the hosts.

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tedmiston9y ago

I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.

mangelettiOP9y ago

You're phrasing was clear. The person making the analogy was comparing the drivers to the hosts.

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