Airbnb announced this week that it would discourage its hosts from pushing their change-over chores onto guests … just in time for Thanksgiving.

The news stoked the internet into another spontaneous eruption of a multi-alarm blaze (though perhaps one or two alarms shy of whatever bird-puppet bidding war broke out between a famous songstress and a twee boutique in Brooklyn).

Guests and Hosts alike bickered over the banalities of how much work is too much to expect from people staying in your short-term rental.

The self-imposed policies of a disruptive enterprise … that started as regular schmoes like you and me being able to rent out a room in our house to make a little dough … have become something closer to corporations buying up all the starter homes and studio apartments they can find for cash while the deteriorating hotels and motels........

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