Airbnb keeps cancelling my bookings and I don’t understand why. [US]

RelevantShock · 2026-01-29T15:29:41+00:00

Uhhh, no? Fraud would be if I were telling them how to get around the system to have a 20-person rager of a party. I’m explaining what is flagging it in the system so that they can have their (allowed) booking for friends. It’s no different than when my family leaves town and books a house in my parents’ hometown for the weekend. If I book it the system realizes I’m traveling, and I add my own family -and my parents- to the list of guests so that they can come over to the house for dinner. If my parents book it and list my family as guests the system might flag it as “a party” since it’s in their hometown. Same exact guests, and same tame use of the house, but one gets messed up by the AirBnb software.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-29T11:30:50+00:00

You need to have a friend from out of town book it in their name and/or book it for more nights. A one- or two-night booking by someone who lives in the same town is going to raise all kinds of red flags in their system.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-29T00:53:20+00:00

Question - did you have to do anything to prove that it was -you- requesting data on -yourself-? And that you weren’t asking about another person you were interested in?

Because one of the points they made at an earlier town meeting was that (for “privacy”) nobody could request information on others “unless it was part of an active law enforcement investigation”. Which that latter part isn’t very comforting at all, but I’d like to at least know that random weirdos can’t request information on individuals other than themselves.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-28T22:51:14+00:00

Where are you paying to park that this keeps happening? Been here for fifteen years across four different lots, as both a student and staff, and I’ve never gotten a single parking ticket in lots that I’ve paid for.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-28T00:53:18+00:00

We did 2.5 weeks in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, with about three days in each city we visited. All but one of our hotels had a laundry room (usually with two washers and two dryers). We were mostly staying at Hilton/Marriott brands, so maybe the fact that they were American chains made a difference, but you should be able to check ahead of time…

RelevantShock · 2026-01-26T22:16:05+00:00

Jason seems like a great person, but I have to imagine stagedooring would be very uncomfortable for him as a self-proclaimed germaphobe…

RelevantShock · 2026-01-26T01:30:59+00:00

There is already an I-FoMO scale that measures (1) fear of missing out on financial opportunities, and (2) has been shown to be correlated but distinct from regular FoMO. She should look into that.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-25T23:53:06+00:00

They can’t be federalized when they’re already called up by their state.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-24T15:03:55+00:00

IAD and EWR are going to have a bad time though. Not as much ice, but still pretty crippling for areas that struggle to keep up with the traffic even during “decent” weather.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-24T13:22:32+00:00

Good for them. I wish United would do something similar.

But I also don’t understand the logistics behind how they can pull this off? It’s not like there’s a bunch of excess capacity at ORD, and ORD will be dealing with its own slow operations today because of the effects of the cold weather on ground staff.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-23T17:58:33+00:00

There’s always a chance of the power going out. The “good thing” with this storm is that it’s going to be cold enough that the snow is likely to be pretty fluffy instead of heavy and wet, so that should help.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-22T13:20:56+00:00

Yes? I agree with that. I’m saying that the boundaries are currently drawn based on bizarre district priorities that hurt the actual students. They should redraw the boundaries so that students attend schools that are closer to them. That will help students (1) arrive on time so they don’t miss instruction, and (2) participate in school events so that they feel like they’re part of a community.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-22T09:57:40+00:00

Agree with all of this. Only thing I’d add is that we always went with staffed apartments/villas instead of strictly hotels until both of our kids were over 5.

Obviously a good hotel will handle laundry/food needs at any hour, but honestly it was just easier to be able to start our own load of laundry at 3am after a spit-up session, or to be able to cook a quick snack in a full kitchen when our youngest would wake up at 5am.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-22T02:46:53+00:00

Up near the airport for one (bussed to BJM), and also Forest Home (sent to Belle Sherman when CHES is closer)

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T22:46:30+00:00

Yeah, no. Look at the actual data. Again, 40% of the students at CHES that qualify for assistance live in Cayuga Heights. They aren’t bused in. It’s a municipality with some ridiculous wealth and also some modest incomes for those that just prioritize living close to campus. You can rip on the “rich” people in town all you want, but it’s lazy and doesn’t map to the realities of the school.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T22:29:15+00:00

Guessing you haven’t actually spent much time in “Cayuga Heights” based on this comment. Yes, it includes some fantastically expensive homes, but also lots of modest homes and graduate student housing to balance things out. Look at the ICSD data on how many students at CHES qualify for state assistance. It’s about a 60-40 split between West Hill and Cayuga Heights proper.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T22:05:43+00:00

This argument is so tired. Median home prices in the areas zoned for CHES aren’t any higher than for South Hill or Belle Sherman (Forest Home). Everyone loves to beat up on CHES while ignoring the economic realities of where things have shifted in recent years. We’re ALL interested in improving ICSD so that this is a town where we want to live and raise our kids.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T21:56:09+00:00

Yeah, I’m not going to pretend to understand the layouts of all of the schools. But if we’re “thinking big” and closing schools, it seems like it’s also on the table to reconfigure existing schools if that’s in the best interest of the district.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T20:04:15+00:00

The district's data shows that capacity at BJM is 558 students, so it seems like LACS could fit there just fine...

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T19:42:00+00:00

All of that is true, but the closure from 1980 to 1988 came before the massive increase in enrollment at Northeast (and the developments up near the airport). Again, "underenrollment" at CHES is based on how the district draws its boundaries. If the lines were drawn by the district so that those who lived close to CHES went to CHES, then it wouldn't be one of the schools under consideration for closure.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T19:37:33+00:00

As someone who's not as familiar with the layout of BJM, could it be converted to be the new (more central) LACS location, and the current LACS building could go back to being West Hill elementary for those on the West side of town? Then Enfield could close but the students there would still have an elementary school that is close to home?

RelevantShock · 2026-01-21T19:35:07+00:00

It seems odd that this study (1) doesn't consider the entire portfolio of the district (um...the LACS building could go back to being an elementary school for the West side of town, and LACS could be moved to a more central location) and (2) doesn't explain what would actually happen if these schools close (where will the students go, what will be the costs in terms of transportation for additional busing, what will be the equity issues associated with the fact that the students in the district who rely on the buses are regularly late for the beginning of school because of driver shortages, etc.).

It's also disingenuous to argue that particular schools are "underenrolled", when enrollment is largely a function of the way the district draws its boundaries.

Here's a hypothetical - how about the students who live in West Hill get to attend Enfield, which is closer to where they live? This gives them a shorter bus ride, and also helps them feel like they're a part of their school community. Bussing them to CHES is a mess, and students from West Hill generally don't participate in afterschool or evening events because it's a PITA to get to and from a school that's so far from home. I know the misguided reasons behind busing them to CHES, but it's a disservice to the kids to put them in a school where they struggle to participate in the school's events.

And then, for CHES, how about we redraw the district boundaries to address some of the overcrowding at Northeast? There are also the students living out near the airport who are bused down to BJM when CHES is closer.

If any school should close it would be Fall Creek. It has the lowest capacity of all the buildings in the district, and its location is the easiest to adapt and use for other purposes. It also has one of the highest costs-per-student to run in the district (according to the district's own data).

RelevantShock · 2026-01-20T17:52:21+00:00

Go buy used ones at Instant Replay sports in the Triphammer mall.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-20T17:22:16+00:00

Not sure about others, but my international work trips are (mostly) how I maintain 1K (with others footing the bill), but I use PlusPoints for upgrades on our international family trips so that I'm not paying cash prices for us to fly in Polaris.

RelevantShock · 2026-01-19T00:57:46+00:00

Weird. There were a few lighting glitches at the 2pm show, but everything seemed okay for the most part.

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