Airbnb Caps Number of Guests at 16

[Luke Carl]

Perhaps to position themselves for the upcoming IPO. 

More on this HERE

Your thoughts?

[Amanda Ferguson]

I saw this yesterday.  I think it is a knee jerk reaction to the house party issues that have been happening.  These one night rentals on large homes for parties is bad for our industry.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/07/20/another-weekend-of-party-goers-in-osceola-county-leads-to-several-arrests/

https://trip101.com/article/party-house-to-rent-for-one-night-in-and-around-orlando

Not every large home is for parties. Most are perfect for multi-generational family vacations.

More hosts need to review guests when they run into these types of issues with guests so others owners and managers are aware of these people who are renting homes to throw parties and charge entry at the door.  

We also utilize stealth noise monitoring and wifi enabled devise detection to keep an eye out for over occupancy & noise issues like this. If there is an issue we want to know about it quickly before a neighbor or HOA manager has to reach out to complain. We also keep a contract with a local security company. On our highest peak weeks we give them a list of properties that are our larger homes that have the potential for issues and have them do evening drive through of those neighborhoods. They are also available should the overnight on-call team member need to respond to a noise or occupancy issue and not feel comfortable arriving alone, they can call security to meet them.