As much as I empathize with everything being said, my experiences staying at AirBonobo/ Vrbo have been >80% small, middle class hosts. A family (multiple siblings in their 60s who lived in adjoining houses) who rented out their deceased parent’s house which shared a backyard with theirs in Utah. A CP railway conductor who used his railroad pay to renovate 3 small properties and maintains them in his time off from work in Minnesota. A semi-retired guy who lives off his rental up the hill from him in Maine. I really think things have gone wrong with the platform since it started (like everything on the internet that’s been around too long). The prices have skyrocketed for what you get. I also grew up in VT and find it hard to imagine ever moving back bc affordability. Other than say essex county, island pond has some affordable houses for sale.

Most of your downvotes are probably folks whose ‘rents paid $75k/yr for them to attend a pretentious liberal arts college (they understand the world better!)