Trying to find an honest apartment on Airbnb during Sandy: Not so easy


Skift Take

Beyond the good-will, post-Sandy PR from new media companies like Airbnb were the real, on-the-ground realities of price-gouging and odd cancellations that are the persisten reality of any rental marketplace.

I was certainly familiar with the site, but had never used it. (I like hotels. I like lobbies, bathrobes, and overpriced Diet Cokes.) Because Manhattan was cut off from the rest of the city and half o