7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Airbnb rentals - Pt 1: I decided to do my exercise walk inside the building yesterday, going up and down the stairs, exploring the different business floors, etc. Post Covid, there has been a surge in Airbnb rentals throughout Cebu, and in this building as well. I do understand the incentives and benefits of renting out one's place, but it's been an adjustment for some us owners who actually live here. I should note that we also rented out our place, for 6 months earlier this year. One and done. When we returned in November, there was a separate counter set up in the lobby specifically for Airbnb guests. Back to my walk, I walked down our hallway and past the elevators towards the other end of the building, passing 4 or 5 people before reaching the stairs door at the other end. I said "good morning" to a few people, and they said "good morning" back to me. People were still streaming out of the room they had rented, 12 or 13 in total. Please note - I still love this place... Going down the stairs, I stopped on the 9th floor, one of several floors designated as "Entry door" floors. It was shut and locked. I walked down to the 8th floor, which had a "No Entry" sign, and I went through it. Evidently, in pre-Covid time, they had a bunch of offices and businesses operating on that floor, there were public restrooms, etc...a nice area. I meandered through the hallways until I reached what I thought was one of the hotel elevators, and pushed G thinking it was their lobby. We're all part of a larger complex. When the elevator opened, I found myself in the lobby area next to our apt lobby. I had ridden that elevator only once before, when we saw the singer Vina Morales at the Casino during last January's Sinulog festivities. I walked around the second and lobby floors downstairs, walked by the singing Santa Claus, through the glass door going past the in-house mini-market and over to the hotel next door. I walked through the hotel lobby, out onto the sidewalk and over to our building's front door. To be continued:

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