Yeah, although that is how averages work. It's important people understand this when they look at data.

Personally I think it's much worse that the OP doesn't control for unit size. (In the article, he says he collected that data, but didn't mention doing anything with it.) There's a huge difference in the effort to clean/launder a 3-bedroom house say, and a studio.

I can't speak for other hosts, but we have a cleaning fee because most guests stay for 2 nights, so it's unfair to the ones who stay longer to have a higher rate.

>People would be so much happier to pay $120/night for 4 nights than $100 + $80 cleaning fee

That calculation works for 4 nights. But what if the vast majority of your guests stay for 2 nights, and only some stay for longer?

The nightly fee would be $140 to cover the cost of cleaning, so a 2-night stay would end up being $280.

The problem then is that a 4-night stay would be $560, instead of the $480 it would have been with a separate cleaning fee.

From Berlin, does the map still show you just an average nightly rate? Or does it show you the full price for the entire stay?

(From the US, the map just shows an average nightly rate for me, but the listing shows the exact breakdown.)

Can you elaborate a bit? What exactly is it that you see differently when you're in the EU?

If you read the OP's blog post, he explains that it's an average. There are a lot of listings with $150 cleaning fees, but there are also a lot with $0 cleaning fees (and presumably higher nightly rates that compensate).

Actually cleaning fees are included in both the AirBnB host fee (commission) and guest fee calculation:

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1857/airbnb-service-fees

Oh, I think I understand what you're saying. That as the interest rate goes up and you limit the monthly payment to $1000 then you'll have a situation where the loan would not get paid-off. I don't think that's realistic, since the home would be repossessed if you didn't make the correct payment.

My point is that a standard 30-year loan could, in theory, have any interest rate, but it would still be paid off in 30 years. You just may have a payment that's more than $1000/month.

That doesn't sound right for a standard 30-year-fixed-rate loan. They are designed to fully pay-off the principal at 30 years.

I think it's the other way around: When interest rates are low, house prices get inflated, and so downpayments go up.