Well I do think that air has taken a lot of guests from the normal B+B market in our area. When I browse through the air listings near us and see that every visitor has left a glowing review for what I know is a less-than-stellar accommodation I figure that something is changing.
It will be interesting to see if the TA complex of OTAs tries to gobble up air too!.
Around here, Air is chasing the last dollar. Constantly, I see the prices going lower and lower and lower. Of course most of these people haven't had the taxes catch up to them and they don't realize that they are renting below costs.
I laughed a few weeks ago. One guy finally got his city commercial tax bill for all the apartments and he was up in arms that he shouldn't be charged commercial property tax.... hoping that others would chime in.. nope, silence... he's not residential! His property tax bill just went up by 4X. So, now that he's paying all the taxes, let's see him compete for that very last dollar.
Meanwhile, I'm full and I haven't lowered my rate. Now I'm hoping to work on getting the other B&B operators around here to help in the fight to make them pay their taxes... cause it drives them out of business. They were all tax cheats!
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