An emergency rate cut would be an admission the Fed has lost control and the narrative would be busted. Everyone would lose confidence in the Fed. I strongly doubt any rate cut prior to September barring a black swan event.
dude stop with the misinformation of the crime in SF. There's less crime in San Francisco than in Opa Locka in Miami. Your car will be fine parked at the Marina.
@Michael Bordenaro. Please get the fluff out of there. It isn't safe. And leaving your wife to guard the car? What if there are 5 of them, yeah, leave...it isn't Miami
Major indexes booked their worst yearly performance since 2008 thanks to drivers like the recession, war, hiked interest rate and inflation which so far doesn’t seem to be easing off, so I’m left wondering what 2024 has in store for us investors, I’ve been sitting on over $745K equity from a home sale and I’m not sure where to go from here, is it a good time to buy or do I wait?
Starting early is simply the best way of getting ahead to build wealth, investing remains a priority. I learned from my last year's experience, I am able to build a suitable life because I invested early ahead this time.
I love the insight. Professionals could make a really big difference in investing, and I think everyone should have one. There are aspects of market trend that is difficult for the untrained eyes to see. I have made more than 350% through my estateplanner(fa) by alternative investing. The portfolio comes with perks as well.
It's good you make your own research. and make sure whoever you work with is licensed n verifiable with a repute, this Sonya looks the part but i'd do my due diligence. I set up a call, thanks.
Not only have Airbnb fees increased, but hosts have also raised prices higher than hotels. For that cost, you might as well enjoy the comfort of a hotel.
@americanpleb7871 should be some decent places off the strip, but then the savings are spent on ubers getting to the strip! So the resort hotels cost "more"
When Airbnb started to become more expensive than a hotel, and you have to clean up or pull all the sheets, run dishes and such…rather go to a hotel. Plus the bs fees are ridiculous.
That is true, they left a welcome note indicating how I should leave the property, and clean it, even taking out the trash, but they did charge me a cleaning fee.
Absolutely. I invested in an insulated cup. I have a really good capsule coffee machine at home, I buy good quality coffee capsules (not Nespresso) in bulk and make my coffee before I leave home. I also make batches of tray bake chocolate brownie, banana bread, flapjack and so on about 60 or 70 at a time. I eat and drink well on my way to work on the train and far better that I can buy in a coffee shop. I absolutely refuse to pay £5.00 - £6.00 to buy a substandard product. I also take an insulated carrier to work with home cooked frozen food and heat up in the microwave. Honestly, I am eating better and for about 1/3 of the price of going out to buy a sandwiches, salads and coffees.
And don't forget tipping! I'm a great tipper but if I'm at the Drive-thru I feel like it is more like McDonald's than a fancy bistro! I do tip though because I understand the workers must really need it how now I have to "answer a question" on their pad. But I hardly go to Starbucks anymore.
Two years ago my daughter and l rented an Air BnB for $65/night with no additional fees at a ski town. Last year they were asking over $300/night with all the crazy fees. We opted to drive an hour each way and got a beautiful hotel for $100/night and it was still cheaper! Air BNB is definitely going to become obsolete soon with all the additional fees and subpar service and it serves them right. Same with Uber and Lyft.
Yep! It seems like they are trying to cash on as much as possible, then dump stock/assets before their reputations destroy them. It is a lot like an exit scam pulled by scummy vendors of questionable materials on the dark web.
The trouble is that while Airbnb didn't put most hotels out of business, Uber and Lyft have decimated the traditional cab industry, it will take quite some time for it to rebuild.
Interesting. I took an Uber the other day for the first time in a long time. The Driver got $6.50. Uber took over $13.00 for their fees. That seems outrageous and exactly reversed to me.
Contrary to popular belief, these people working for Uber or places like Door Dash make only a small amount of the added fees. That’s why you have to leave large tips to get fast service. That’s really the only meaningful amount of money these people receive. In the end, neither party is really profitable. It’s not a profitable business model except DoorDash etc can sell stock to morons. The Morons working for DoorDash are unprofitable And can not sell stock. Big Difference.
I do deliveries for a living at the moment. Been doing it for 4 years and it's only been getting worse. Uber consistently sends me requests for $2-4 deliveries that would cost me $2 in fuel excluding other vehicle costs. The problem is that if people want $5 deliveries the drivers are going to need double pickups from any store. I now frequently have to wait 5-10 minutes for food preparation at all these various restaurants. I really don't have time to waste for $2 dollars an hour as it usually takes 25-30 minutes per order. We are not Amazon where we can deliver 10 packages for $2.50 a package to different apartments in a large complex at a time. It used to be that drivers of any kind would get 70% of the revenue. If you do not tip we do not make any money and these requests by customers are an outright nuisances to drivers. Sort of like delivery spam.
The offers for Uber Eats are incredibly low. You are actually barely breaking even or in some cases paying them to deliver. It could be the influx of migrants not knowing any better and just taking anything that they get for money.
The AirBnB I got last summer in Fort Myers (4-BR/3-BA) was great. With all fees, it was around $1,600 for a 10-day stay (off-season). Cheaper than any hotel, able to accommodate my friends/family coming over, and it was a cool historic house. I tried booking it again this summer, but it was nowhere to be found. Wonder what happened to it.
It gets real easy to say no when you retire. Every store I go into nowadays, they try to hit me up for more money for some charity - mainly for the homeless. Since they ask me, I get to tell them why I am saying no. I hold up many a line talking about giving a man a fish and he eats for the moment, teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. See how that works? That's how you say no nicely.
Kind of sad, I was thinking of putting our rental house up next summer, but maybe I waited too long. Our area is kind of short on hotels, and I thought it might be nice to rent it out overnight from June-September. But if the company is going to make it not serve people, and hold hosts to a standard I guess it will go out of business.
We had a terrible Air BnB experience recently. $500 wasted for a less than nice house. We left early because it was full of ants, wasn’t clean, and wasn’t worth the money. Done with them.
I can't stand AirBnb. My neighbor rents his home often and in the summer is a headache with all the guest's cars, noise, and disruption. I hope San Diego will prohibit or at least put a cap like 2 to 3x per year.
My town was having such a huge problem because people were buying up houses and turning them into Airbnb. Then there wasn’t enough houses for people to actually live in. So they put a moratorium on it and didn’t allow any more to come in.
Was going to get an airbnb for the weekend. Total price showed $350. Went to checkout and it came out to $800. They were charging $300 cleaning fee. And we were supposed to take out our trash from all bins before we leave. Why the hell would I pay a cleaning fee then? Ridiculous.
I talked to airbnb once about it and they said that the cleaning fee you have to get back if you leave the place clean. My host demanded that i do the dishes and the bedsheets, etc… or there would be no return of it….. and he sent me the list after i arrived!!!! He didn’t like my review and sent me seven messages to change it. He didn’t understand this was extorsión, state this huge list before and i decide if i go.
Probably because they have to subcontract out independent cleaning companies at higher rates instead of employee maids paid by the hour. I own a cleaning business that is surprisingly expensive to operate. A large hotel just hires a cleaning staff at minimum wage.
@@scullyfox4271 thats nonsense. I've contracted many cleaning companies for 6'000sqft facilities cleaned weekly. Generally around $50-$75 per week. A tiny apartment with multiple cleaning per week repeat business will not be any more than that. Now if they trash the place then yeah a higher fee is warranted but in most cases, these are just fees for the sake of hidden profits.
Uber charged me $24 for a journey of just half a mile. The driver arrived within a minute and completed the drop-off in three minutes. When I asked the driver about the high fare, he mentioned he only received $4 from it & showed me that at end of trip to prove his statement. Can someone explain where the rest of the money went?
Riding in a stranger's car and living in a stranger's house NEVER appealed to me, at any price. Goes against 60 years of being conditioned to "stranger danger" and hitch-hiking. Involving your mobile phone and internet does not make it safer.
Im a millennial, and I've turned my back on every service down to even not eating at restaurants. Many more will do the same, and we will all watch your companies fail.
I used airbnbs and Uber when I travelled all the time but now I prefer hotels. Most of the airbnbs I stayed at had something broken. The last one I stayed was a broken jacuzzi. Why would you advertise a broken jacuzzi? The host called me saying they would send someone to fix it by the third day! I asked Airbnb to cancel my stay and we went to another Airbnb because they don’t fully refund you, they will keep your money within the platform so you can use it on another Airbnb. I found hotels to be much better! Less fees, everything works, hot daily breakfast and a maid that organizes your room daily! Oh and I forgot they don’t give you a long list to do before checking out, Airbnb is OUT for me!
I just left an Airbnb. The owner made so many requests that it made for an uncomfortable stay. Because I'm rated, I felt I needed to comply. I'm very clean, generally, and tidy up before leaving anyway. It's just incredibly insulting to charge high cleaning fees and ask me to squeegee shower doors, take my shoes off, sweep, take out the trash, and wash the towels, etc.
@@thedalillama same here. I paid a $300 dog fee plus cleaning fee and I had a ton of shores to do before leaving the Airbnb. The only chores missing were vacuuming and mopping, they asked to clean the kitchen empty dishwasher, wash pots and pans, put towels and sheets to wash. Ridiculous!!! I paid around $450 of cleaning fees and pet fee and I still had to do a ton of stuff! I am not a fan of airbnbs anymore to say the least
@@justinlowry6522 no, you need to stop importing unnecessary baggage to destroy the west, there are more than enough homes., you don't need an entire country that is urban sprawl.
DoorDash is almost like something people do as a hobby. It’s not profitable. A lot of the users do not seem to be aware that the driver gets like $2.50 from the fee and nothing else unless the tip is generous. That doesn’t make practical sense for drivers driving to the restaurant, waiting 10 minutes for the pickup and then driving 5 miles to the drop off. Does that sound worth it even for $5? Doesn’t sound worth it to me.
@@p.granger8824 Grubhub is way better. I can make 35 an hour on good nights. DD is plain evil. GH doesnt charge a 2 dollar fee to take your money out unlike DD either. Problem is GH doesnt get as many orders as DD.
@@Mita7401 and none of that goes to the driver. 2.50 is correct. Then for the order to be worth picking up the order placer has to tip at least 5.00 after already paying 50% more than they should for their food. Doordash is going to fall i think. They are trying to rework some of their systems to give the illusion of caring more about the driver or make it less obvious how much drivers are getting plowed in the bum, we arent falling for it.
My girlfriend and I are staying at the coast for our anniversary in a few weeks and we looked at a AirBNB instead of a hotel. They were all triple the cost of a resort style hotel (with in-room hot tubs) for a crummy tiny condo, they expected us to clean up after ourselves AND charged a $60 cleaning fee on top of that. Who uses these things?
Air B&B doesn’t do anything to check out their renters and the place. They allow hidden and outrageous $400-$500 cleaning fees, meanwhile allowing renters to make you load the dishwasher, take out the trash and strip the beds etc. what’s the cleaning fee for????
Airbnb are so crazy with all their extra fees that literally raise the price 30-50% to more than a hotel room would cost, so there is no point of using airbnb anymore, cheaper to just get a hotelroom lately.
Michael, you comments about Uber/Lyft are RIGHT ON. I am a former driver (for both platforms). I used to occasionally work the San Francisco Airport. Back in 2018/2019 there used to be two HUGE parking lots (for the Rideshare drivers). As a driver you would sit in a queue of over 150+ drivers. Back then the money making was very good. Sadly, both of these companies started taking more and more of the percentage of the fares. I got tired of these companies holding the proverbial 'carrot' higher & higher. No way I would EVER work as a driver again. Those companies are so deceptive! Thank you for shelling out all the truth!
the left has you blaming business for their huge counterfeit money printing op? and cutting off our energy? ok, that's what caused inflation, not to mention they want to wipe out the middle class in america, it's the socialist dream- equity of outcome by taking from the rich we are all poor. eventually you run out of money. brics is going to stop trading oil with the dollar, and the dollar collapse is done, george Soros self described wet dream, dedollarization-bring down America in favor of ONE WORLD govt.
They have administrative costs. Customer service, management, infrastructure, technical, business flow managerial, building maintenance, about three hundred other associated costs just here in the U.S.. So yeah..they Do have costs. Along with these associated costs comes RISK. investors are pulling their money out of these speculative and risk-associated business models..for a number of reasons e.g. market changes, price misalignment, poor performance, unexpected technical glitches, etc. It's a relatively new business model and the investors are leary ...and rightfully so.
@@tommielee8please tell me you’re not serious actually please, Uber as well as door dash are the BIGGEST platforms to rip people off DRIVERS YES DRIVERS DO 100% of the work yet get the least pay
I was going to do an Airbnb in Daytona Beach for bike week last year but by the time they added all the fees, etc. it was literally, no exaggeration, twice the stated nightly price. Politely told the owner I had sticker shock. I just got my regular old beachfront hotel room. It was way way cheaper.
But all you got was a bed and bath. Comp a hotel with a 2-3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen, laundry, patio, proper tv with real channels etc etc. a “premiere suite” so to speak. Compare those rates.
@@noname-p2f2q Point well taken. I had a VRBO rental myself for about 15 years, so I get it. But for Bike week, I leave the pad at 9AM and dont return til late...so in this instance the value was not here. It would certainly have been nicer...but not at the cost. Have a great day...
@@noname-p2f2q now a days you have a lot of aparthotels and they are still cheaper than AirBnb and when you are on holiday you only use the room for sleeping and taking a shower anyway.
@@happydogg312 who wants to pay $30 a person to eat every meal vs cook for breakfast or late night snacks? Especially people with kids? How many people would like to cook out and end the evening on a private patio w drinks and music? Who wants to pay for laundry and sit in a laundry mat on vacation? How many couples in a party of 4 want to share a hotel room? So many reasons a home is better than a hotel room. Near Zero reasons why a hotel is better.
@@noname-p2f2qit's called vacation. I ain't worried about cooking. Granted I'm solo or max one guest with me. So it's different for a family vacation getting a beach home makes sense but a solo adult male. Hotels are far better because generally closer to places I want to be at and they handle all ish and if I wanna meet new ppl they have bars,restaurants and lobbies. Also love the gym, pool and free breakfast
@@TheBroLoungeI would say it’s a lot less than you think. Yes we hear stories of hidden cameras every now and then but it’s really far and few between. Just like nightmare stories of guest destroying homes or squatters not leaving airbnb homes. It does indeed occur, but quite rare.
I have lots of AirBnBs in my area because it is a very popular tourist city. They never give us any trouble. The rare group that does make noise quickly quiets down when the cops come. In the meantime, the renters and owners that live here are much louder and obnoxious. If the cops ask them to quiet down as soon as the cops leave they are back to making noise. I MUCH prefer having AirBnBs as neighbors. The homes are kept neat and clean with their landscaping well maintained and if per chance they do make noise they quiet down right away if the cops come.
I stayed in an AirBnB for the second time last year. Charming little place. Private. Safe neighborhood. The bed broke when I sat on it. I’m 5’9” 175 lbs, not exactly a giant. When I moved the cheapo Amazon frame, bugs ran out. The floor was dirty. The glasses were dirty. The owners were really nice and had just started a month before I booked. I got my money back. The first AirBnB was dirty and dilapidated. I only use hotels now.
People also don't even realize that grubhubs menu and the restaurants menu are different.. the grubhub menu of that exact same place is like 10-25% higher in price for every single item.
Of course it's higher. The restaurant is paying a fee to use the service of having someone deliver their food. The restaurant passes that fee on to the consumer by baking it into the menu prices. This way the restaurant is still getting their same margin on the food cost and getting more orders with delivery being offered.
@@kurts6741 Never here too but I drive my own vehicle and often sleep in it on short 2 or 3 day road trips. Have cooler will travel. LoL HVAC, Entertainment system, smartphone on board. Mini kitchen in the trunk. Better than a tent and free parking is plentiful. Wake up along the beach or in the mountains. Easy to get a room with a view. Often right next to free hot and cold running water in restrooms by boat ramps or in secluded quiet rest areas if you know where they are. Lighted picnic tables and free OJ at a rest area in Florida once. You're paying taxes to support this stuff. Might as well use it.
You must be spending a lot of time grocery shopping, walking or renting cars, or maybe you just don’t go anywhere. Your time is your most valuable resource. Hope you’re not wasting too much of it in some stubborn protest over modern conveniences.
I lived in San Francisco in the '70's, 80's and 90's. What a wonderful time. It was the Golden Age, especially for people without much money. It was quiet, serene, safe, clean, much fewer people and lots less traffic. In the Sunset, I told a friend that ONE day in the future, the houses on the corner lots might actually get up to $100K! Never had any fears walking any of the streets, day or night. Seems sooo long ago.
Yes I was there late 70s early 80s San Francisco was awesome, but got expensive so I just went to San Mateo which was close but cheap. Yhea it was beautiful.
I just started watching the Dirty Harry series for the first time... Takes place and was filmed mostly in San Francisco around 1970. What a different time the 70's were! I mean, I know it's a work of fiction, but it still depicts San Francisco of the era and I've been there a few times in modern times to be able to see the differences. You're lucky to have experienced it first hand!
@@ChadBoss-qr4hl Yes. I consider myself very fortunate. Back then, many people considered San Francisco more of a large town, rather than a "real city". In fact, there was a push not to "Manhattanize" San Francisco. The downtown high-rise core was only a few square blocks. I used to think of it as a "fake" downtown because it was so tiny. I could so easily walk from the downtown area to Telegraph Hill, to Fisherman's Wharf, to Ghirardelli Square, to Fisherman's Wharf, to North Beach, to the Ferry Building, to the Embarcadero, and to Coit Tower, all in a single day! Very little traffic, cool fresh clean air, and I never feared a single person on my walks all around San Francisco. And just like Brigadoon, that city now... only lives in photographs and people's memories.
The worst about airbnb is you could never communicate with them. They have no concierge and when you want to check in, you are constantly worried whether the check in would happen
I used air bnb and uber before covid as I could save lots of money. Now the fuckers are more expensive than hotels and normal taxis. I now longer use them
Yep, the McDonalds effect - lure you in with cheap deals so that you embed the idea of value into the subconscious and then slowly raise the prices and before you know it, they are more expensive (or at least much less value) and people cannot alter their subconscious mindset without a lot of intent. Even more so when you realize how most people go about their life on auto-pilot.
Affordable Ubers and Lyfts were a game changer for disabled folks who can’t drive or folks who can’t afford cars and don’t live near safe public transit. The current prices are unsustainable. It’s very sad. Everything that’s essential is expensive now.
I am blind and use a guide to dog. Uber and Lyft are constantly refusing rides to people with guide dogs. It’s illegal but they do it anyway. Airbnb also refuses guide dogs. Again illegal but they do it anyway. So screw all of them. I don’t use any of them. It’s hotels and taxis. Thank you very much.
Uber wasn’t a market disrupter it was a market destroyer. Let me get this straight: You want me for drive people IN MY OWN CAR with no benefits and I have to compete with all an unlimited amount of competition? And I pay all my own expenses? SIGN ME UP! You know it’s bad when the government had to step in!😂
Uber took over because it ran subsidized and at a loss until they destroyed the taxi businesses then they raised the rates. Despicable behavior. At least the French understood from the start. Oh and I forgot you have to pay your own insurance.
I was a 5 Star UBER driver in CA. for 2 years, I received over 1000 5 Star ratings with only one 4 Star that was the lowest rating I ever got. My car was spotless everyday, I offered every rider cold water plus I offered any satellite station they wanted to lessen to if they wanted it. Slowly the tips dried up as UBER charged more but they did not pass on anything to their drivers. I quit driving 5 months ago along with many other drivers. In CA. drivers are lucky to get 50% of what people payed UBER, on long trips of over 30 miles we would get as little as 30% at times. At one time ride share was a nice job but not anymore.
As a Doordash driver my opinion matters nothing but I figure I could weigh in on that part of the video. Everything you said is spot on. As a driver we depend on tips to make money and you can see the constantly increasing prices on the customer side reflect directly on the tip. Sadly we don't get any of that extra money, maybe a dollar or two for driving 10 miles sometimes as far as what Doordash pays us. I need to get a real job before it's too late. I drive about 15 miles from home to Dash in a pretty wealthy area. So far it hasn't slowed down. Shit hasn't truly hit the fan yet though. It's tetering on the edge though. Uber and Lyft, crazzzzy expensive now. I caught a lyft in Ecuador last month, in Quito, it was like $2.75 for 3 miles.
Air BnB got banned from where I live due to their operations being completely fraudulent and destructive for the small hotels that are everywhere here. Tourists would show up and realize they got scammed by the app with fake postings. And the non scam Air BnBs still were overpriced and often lacked basic things like Internet or A/C units.
I live near San Francisco. It was once a great place to visit. That is all done! If you park your car on the street in San Francisco there's a good chance it will be broken into. The place is filthy. The deterioration and loss of quality of life goes on and on. We have no plans of ever going back to San Francisco. Fleet Week was always fun, but forget it. Two years go my wife and I rode the ferry to SF and back to Vallejo. I sat down next to a SF police officer on the way back. He opened up about how terrible his job was and how the quality of life is so bad. He said he wanted to quit but had a family and mortgage and needed that job. He absolutely hated it.....
He should move to Florida. They let the police do their job but it depends on what the pay is due to what county or city. Palm Beach pays a fair price from what I understand.
Makes me so glad that i got out of Commiefornia. For anyone that is considering it, make it happen. You won't regret it. There are plenty of states with a reasonable cost of living and great quality of life.
Not true. You’re so dramatic. I live in Los Angeles and visit Frisco , and it’s fine. It’s safe, clean and just like it’s always been. Ppl trying to scare tourists away, because the locals don’t want you there, genius. Check the housing prices in San Francisco, and you will see that the market is still piping hot. None of y’all can afford a house here. But don’t need to be mad about it.
Not where I'm from. I can still use Über for $2.30 for a 20 minute ride. Whereas a taxi would charge me 5 dollars or higher. Public transport is even cheaper, but I have knee problems and can't walk as much as I used to.
Taxis are safer too, they are more regulated. But all that was done was destroy the taxi industry for themselves. The same with Airbnb, made housing more expensive because of reducing supply. It's ok if people want to Abnb their own home but not buy up all available homes and make it harder for normal people to live in a community.
It was either last year or the year before I was looking at us taking a trip, so I started pricing everything. For a full week at a hotel it was about $1800 for all of us and the dog. The same time period and requirements were about $4500 for the week with AirBNB. I ended up talking myself out of going anywhere because I always think of ways to either put that back into the house or invest in something. In that case it ended up being better that we didn't go anywhere because my husband had a site visit moved and was out of town for part of that week.
I used to go for a 3 day weekend once a month to SF. The homeless and crime got so bad that i just couldn't enjoy it anymore. I haven't been in years and can't see myself ever returning.
Same here .. use to live near LA and visit my sister who lives in SF .. her 2 places are very nice but I have zero interest in returning .. she thinks climate change is the most important thing .. not the homeless all over the place and feces and syringes on her sidewalk . I had to take her dog for a walk picking up the dogs feces but the humans doing it is ok .. insane .. she never visited me anyways .. I can’t handle snobs
@@thedalillama I lived in Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington for 19 years . Was just in California for a year .. she’s uber wealthy and doesn’t even need to work any longer .. but taking off to Germany every year is SOP to visit in-laws. Even when I went to the same college as her, I lived in student dorms and she was in a sorority .. 1/4 mile away .. never visited me though I did visit her once when she invited me to the sorority in the 3rd week I was there (first time moved out of parents house for me) though apparently having her brother around even for an afternoon and doing something together wasn’t interesting enough for her for the entire rest of the school year .. it’s not like I went over there and drank alcohol and threw up on the carpet .. I’d understand the alienation if I was like that
I live in the middle of nowhere and couldn't be more blessed. No I have nothing like the big city, and San Francisco used to be my favorite big city. So sad to see the country going this way. Thanks for the show..
One of the few things Denver got right was its overnight rental rules. You can only rent part of a primary residence. That's it. I think it really puts owners on the hook for taking care of their property and being a good neighbor. The city enforces this rule, too, because many people really don't want to live next to a hotel. That's why they bought a house in a RESIDENTAL neighborhood.
I realized early on when travelling that finding a monthly apartment is vastly cheaper through a local realtor or hotel than AirBNB. It depends on the country. This was my experience in Korea and Thailand. Go to a local hotel and ask for their monthly rate.
I was looking at a two night stay in orange beach on a Vrbo. They had a $99 a night special. Then the fees, $323 host fee, $58 service fee and $79.39 tax. Two nights for $658. That’s insane.
It’s for folks who can’t afford a car or are disabled and can’t drive. It’s expensive to be poor and lonely and hard to get around when you’re disabled.
Hi Michael I traveled to the dead middle of America from the east coast. Visiting here I can see more clearly the income divide and the impending real estate crash - from the boomers who bought their homes DECADES ago. The only people in all of these upscale homes are aging out. But the up-and-coming families and 30 and 40 somethings can’t afford to get out of the middle class. They can barely keep up their middle class homes and pay the bills.
2 years ago my son took a local Uber ride from his apartment to car mechanic. Like 10 miles it was awful the cost. When he told me, I said never do that again, said we do not give our money away, call me or your brother. My friends have all quit door dash and such now.
People also need to realize that a lot of businesses hire internally but by federal law the jobs have to be publicly posted. So many of those jobs were never available to begin with. Been there...
I remember when these companies came online, everyone was talking about the 'sharing' culture. What really developed is the "i want to leverage my wealth and luck so I can abuse my fellow man so I don't have to do real work" culture. I was in a $18 Lyft ride a few weeks back. As a part time driver, I had to ask the guy, out of the $18, how much will you get. This young, first generation U.S. man said "about 5 dollars". I felt so ashamed, I gave him a $10 Tip. On Air BNB People in Florida are asking $300 a night for their converted garage (off season). It really is a Dog - eat - dog world.
Tip is the worse nouveau riche culture the Americans brought to this world, it destroys transparency/honesty in the service sector, and make the customers to carry the quilt for employers' greed.
Bad idea having your wife in the car. The thugs will walk up, break the window, and grab your wife’s purse whether she sitting there or not. In Oakland they will pull up next to you at a red light, break the window and grab the purse. It’s crazy.
What would you suggest? Locking the car behind an armed secutity gate? I'm sure his wife will be fine. I hope you're not suggesting that Michael values the car over the safety of his wife.
I call that an ambush. They do it all over the USA. I never park anywhere and just sit in a car unless my back is facing a building and I can see everything going on in front of me.
Sounds like we need inspector Harry Callahan to clean up the mean streets of San Francisco again. "It's A Question Of Methods. Everybody Wants Results, But Nobody Wants To Do What They Have To Do To Get Them Done."
Worse. America is already a socialistic society under the guise of capitalism. Said another way... all the expenses of socialism without any of the benifits.. free healthcare.. etc. Folks in say France pay a lot but do we American's really pay less.... taxes take 1/2, insurance cost, copays, and crazy inflation has taken another 1/4... which means we only have 1/4 of our money to live off of. And folks wonder why things are so bad... some basic math is all that is needed. I have read that capitalism always turns to socialism because of greed, corruption, and class division (rich just keep getting richer... everyone else is screwed) I totally believe that now.
@@oopsminjungyou are concentrating on the wrong thing IMHO. Who cares ... you don't need to be involved with those folks. They are not the problem. What they do with their private parts in their house is their buisness. This is one of the biggest problems of America ... so Judgy. Let God sort it out as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Until we get there, which I think is going to be a nasty recession or depression... America will continue to decline. Do we think the world isn't watching how we treat each other... they are watching ... trust me.
A little off topic, but today I stopped at a Walmart in a higher end suburb for a non-toxic nail polish and Lumineaux toothpaste. What a miserable, bizarre, and uncomfortable shopping experience and it’ll be the last. Almost everything was behind locked glass cases. I had to track down store employees to open the cases, then they stand there watching you waiting for you to decide what you want-hello, I just want to take my time while looking for a nail polish! But there they are standing there waiting for you. When you find what you want, you have to pay for it in that department-no more throwing stuff in your cart and checking out at the end of your shopping. For every item you want in different aisles, you have to hunt down an employee and repeat this process! No thank you!! Never ever again!!! I called Walmart customer care and complained.
I lived a few minutes out of Pittsburgh and we don't have that issue. The only things behind glass cases are the video games. (for a while in 2021 the formula was but they stopped that a couple of years ago).
I'm fortunate that I live in a place where we still live by the rule of law and shoplifters get arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Walmart has some plexiglass in front of some items that are locked but around medication and personal care they have plexiglass windows that only alert that the window is open so security can observe through cameras. Very rarely do you hear of anyone shoplifting.
Well whose fault is that and who did you vote for, it’s simple California is now forever off our travel plans as well as most of the states not putting up with the crazies, they can rob and steal from the locals not the visitors.
One lady near me was told by the CAD the reason everybody’s property taxes went up so sharply is because a lot of people from California were outbidding locals and turning the properties into airbnbs. Please do a video on the possibility of airbnbs/ VRBO affecting everyone’s property taxes.
I've stopped using Uber Eats. In times gone by the prices were reasonable and the food got delivered fairly quick. Now you pay a lot more and a lot of the time the driver is just sitting in the car park with the food. I don't know if they've been told to do that for some reason, but by the time the food is delivered it's cold. So why bother? Well I don't. I'd rather go pick up the food myself.
I still use Airbnb for certain trips, but that cleaning fee is now at a point that it's a real problem. I'm starting to be deterred from using the service.
Airbnb was an interesting idea in the beginning when it was primarily a vehicle for people to make some extra coin on an unused bedroom but it quickly morphed into a frictionless app that made it easy for rich absentee landlords to gouge people and literally wreck what used to be cool neighborhoods, to the point where cities have to start banning them. Uber Eats, along with the other food delivery services, were ok during covid but now the prices have gotten so out of hand that you literally feel like you're shredding money every time you use the app. Vote with your wallet and STOP using your phone for everything.
Some neighborhoods have actually banned what they call "Short Term BnB." People would rent a house or condo to throw a huge wild bash all-night party, disturb all the neighbors and trash the place. Right in the middle of a nice suburban family-oriented neighborhood.
First and last time using DoorDash: Requested two paper plates (on the app), large tip, restaurant 1.4 miles away. Took over an hour, no paper plates, napkins, cheese (pizza), and cold. Asked the driver for plates; she bolted, never said a word.
@@Weathernerd27 Well, they trick you by making you pay the tip up front. That way, you hope the driver does a good job, and doesn’t feel slighted by a lousy tip. Then, if you do get lousy service, it’s too late to change it, and you’re screwed.
the problem is the notes you leave in the app are delivery instructions, to find your place or gate code, etc. you need to leave those requests in the order requests if the restaurant allows it. drivers check delivery instructions when they arrive at your address and those instructions can only be seen by a driver after they pick up the order and start the delivery. since it's rare for customers to ask drivers special requests about their orders, drivers don't check delivery instructions until they arrive at delivery address.
I recommend sending special requests as messages to drivers in the app after they arrive at the restaurant that way they will be aware of your requests.
One of the shitty things about the computer age is that you pretty much have to have a resume rather than just show up in person and ask for a job. Makes you feel like a number rather than a person.
I used to go to the airport and back for Uber it was $96 2 years ago. Now it is $140 just 2 years later. No thanks i’ll drive and park cheaper at the airport
That doesn't make any sense you're saying that paying for a storage facility for 9 months of the year while you hold some furniture and crap in limbo is cheaper than getting an Airbnb for a day you must be kidding me
I don't do AirBnB or VRBO, since the added fees are highway robbery. I've had luck with Furnished Finder for "transitional" stays in between selling and buying. When I visited San Francisco in early June, I used Lyft, not Uber, and found a higher class of vehicle and driver and I found each of them to be delightful! The one time I used the high end Uber from SFO after midnight for my then 17-year-old, I had the BEST driver on the planet, Attatuhl, to whom I shall always remain grateful!
Please people stop using these expensive services . These top 1% do not need another Mercedes, vacation, or beach house. We can't even afford the basics. It's more of us than them. 🤜
Frankly we need to let all these big “service” oriented companies that have popped up go under. Uber itself destroyed the cab industry and the only thing it provided was flexible hours. Supporting local businesses needs to be the future.
@@comment2250 Actually the car and refrigerator is over a hundred years old. Your probably to young to have lived as an adult without internet and cell phones. I know this because if you where old enough then you would admit you where happier and had better relationships with others.
I have been driving rideshare (lyft/uber) since 2017 I have over 10k rides under my belt. When I started the money was great. there was a 80/20 split in the drivers favor. Now Uber and Lyft are taking 70% of the fairs and giving the drivers 30% before the drivers add in their operating costs. I have used uber and lyft over the years and can plainly see that they are charging the passengers much more then they did a few years ago ... and I can assure you it's NOT going to the drivers which has to shoulder nearly all the cost... (gas, insurance, maintenance, etc...)
If you buy furniture pay for storage and rent a real apartment and you visit SF so much, why not buy/rent an apartment and put it on Airbnb until you come back?
People are soooo delusional supporting AI! I watched The 400 and that scared the bu-jeebies out of me! AI is NOT our friend! People messing with these AI generated characters on Facebook, no thank you!!
I lived in SF when Uber came online. Honestly, it was like a miracle. To get a cab before, you called the Yellow Cab/DeSoto cab dispatcher. They took your address and then it was a guessing game when that cab would arrive. Opera tickets? You may not make it. Then after the performance, it was a scrum to grab a cab. They only took cash. But, the drivers were awesome. The safety factor of Uber and not messing around with your cash in the back of the cab were winning factors for me. They did push the cab companies to adapt and get apps and offering cashless payments. Love you comments and I’m enjoying the tour of theBay Area! I live out of the country now for many of the reasons you discuss on your videos: safety, cost of living, polluted food chain, political craziness, etc.
@@msbeecee1I was almost set on moving to Ecuador and then everything went to 💩, including their political system. The entire world seems to be going that way. So, I have a renewed interest in Ecuador.
Astonishingly, Uber just had a huge earnings report for Q2. Earnings were 40% more than expected, but Airbnb’s earnings were below expected and its share price dropped 14%. I’ve found it’s cheaper & safer to rent a hotel. When we travel, we try to choose a location near public transportation.
Fun fact: in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Uber must show what part of the ride payment goes to the driver, and what part to Uber. The same ride that used to cost 12-13 reais now costs 19.99 reais (a suspicious number of itself), and while the driver's earnings on those rides went from 10 to 11, Uber's share became close to 30-40%.
Just a week ago or so, we wanted to take an Uber from the Anchorage Airport to Downtown. A 12 min ride as a side node.... the Uber app showed a price of $43. We just walked over to the cabs and public transportation area. The round trip with the bus was $4... While waiting a couple minutes for the bus, the Uber app gave me a notification if we still looking for a ride now for just $17... but no thanks we just took the bus... Nice try UBER!!!!!
We took an UBER equivalent in Thailand for a 2 1/2 hour long distance trip between 2 distant cities. It cost us $69. We gave the driver $100. He was extatic not frowning amd rude like in the US
I feel bad for Uber drivers. They use their own car and don't get that much money per trip. I stay in hotels now. VRBO has so many fees now on top of the daily rental.
Looked at a few Airbnb rates … insane! $150 a night quickly turns into $277! $150.00 x1 night $150.00 Cleaning fee $75.00 Airbnb service fee $31.76 Taxes $20.54 Total (USD) $277.30
