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    The things my kids say

    Posted by TM Lutas on October 5th, 2016 (All posts by )

    My son just asked me if we can AirBNB our house while we evacuate for the hurricane (we’re currently leaning towards sticking Matthew out).

     

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 at 12:17 pm and is filed under Economics & Finance, Humor, Miscellaneous. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    7 Responses to “The things my kids say”

    1. Jonathan Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 12:29 pm

      I like the way he thinks.

    2. Mike K Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 1:05 pm

      I’m going house hunting in Tucson this weekend and my daughter, who is also going, told me about a friend of hers who lives in LA and owns a house in Flagstaff AZ that she rents through AirBnB and it pays her mortgage.

      No hurricanes in AZ. The Mexican hurricanes come to Tucson to die as “Monsoon season” in August.

      Be safe. I have another daughter in Charleston. SC.

    3. TM Lutas Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 2:33 pm

      Mike K – That’s actually where I am, Charleston.

    4. Grurray Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 3:03 pm

      Despite news reports, there isn’t any statistically valid historical comparison to Matthew

      http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/analogs/14L_analogs_latest.png

      I saw on the news yesterday they were comparing the path to Hazel, but jet stream conditions are very different. By the looks of the forecasts, it will be passing over the Bahamas until tomorrow afternoon, so hopefully that knocks some wind out of it.

    5. Bill Brandt Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 9:10 pm

      I just learned what AirBnB is today. It would take a special kind of tenant to move in while a hurricane is coming i would think.

    6. Mike K Says:
      October 5th, 2016 at 11:12 pm

      I had a friend who used to trade houses for vacations. She lived in Newport Beach in a very nice house. They would go to Paris for three weeks and the Parisians would switch with them.

      I suspect it is a similar idea to AirBnB. No rent, just a trade for a few weeks or a month.

    7. Mike Cunningham Says:
      October 6th, 2016 at 7:24 am

      At first I thought that the writer was planning to leave his son, who was named Matthew, outside when the hurricane appeared: but then I realised that the writer, being American, was using a figure of speech; and was actually planning to stay for the duration.

      I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who commented, ‘America and England, two countries separated by a common language?

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