I have a family so we use them when we are on vacations and want to stay at a cabin on a lake or some other area where hotels are not a convenience. I do think Airbnb has a purpose but there are a lot of people out there with wild ass rules and conditions that make no sense and I wonder who in the fuck is renting those places.
If I'm paying those dollars, I'd rather stay at an established place with safety standards mandated by law, than someone's crusty basement or some land lord's housing fraud.