Creating harMONEY in a Sharing Economy

The information I am writing about is coming straight through me. The only time I have heard the word sharing is when it was being referred to in the AirBnB model. I have no political training or inspirations nor do I have any desires around them. The information is coming only from a source of LOVE and how we can all get along better in this infinite Universe. Those of us who believe in Spiritual Laws will continue to find ways to make our lives easier, how to help our fellow man and of course how can we sustain our families in this time. When corporations and business continue to do what they do and I am not here to label what they do or make them wrong. We just choose NOT to be part of that system. We will find a way to THRIVE in this economy by doing what we term is right and true in our hearts. By following our bliss and being of service to our fellow man. One way a group of us have been doing this is through the ever amazing and popular platform of AirBnB. What a concept and yes it has been a cash COW for everyone. I am speaking from a viewpoint of having 2 mortgages, being a single Mom and at times being on unemployment. Why would we want to shut this system down? How can we be threatening anyone’s economy? We are not, we are simply creating a new stream of revenue. We are not competing with the Hyatts and the Biltmores, that is simply absurd. We are creating an entire new industry where someone wakes up one day and realizes, oh yeah, I want to go check out Asheville, the coolest city on the planet and now I have a means to. No I can’t afford to or better I choose NOT to spend $150 a night on a hotel but I’d rather share my money with a single Mom or Dad or even a Grandmother who is raising her 3 grandchildren. I will have extra money to spend on their THRIVING tourist economy and bam, win-win, everybody wins. Do not limit us, fine us, ticket us, threaten us, tells us your going to make us sell our house. HOA’s listen up, how loving is it to tell your single Mom family that you are going to sue her and force her to sell her house? Everyone and I mean everyone needs to bone up on Spiritual Lessons on karma. What you do to me will come back to you multiplied abuntantly. I told my neighbor what the HOA sent me, a certified letter in the mail. He wanted a copy of it…He said if he didn’t have a problem with what I was doing, no one gets to. I think he has secret super powers and I think he knows a few very important people. That’s not a threat just thoughts I think. I think we all have the right to create a win win income based on however we choose to. The extra money has allowed me to pay my 2 mortgages, spruce up my home, paint and power wash the outside of my home. Isn’t this a GREAT thing for our neighborhood? Or would it be better for me to fail, go into foreclosure, go on welfare, food stamps and unemployment CANCEL CANCEL …and pull down the home values in my own neighborhood. Wake up and smell the sharing economy. It’s going to happen regardless. Can you limit or tax couch surfing? At least AirBnB has given the communities that are sqwaking the most what they want…MONEY in the form of occupancy tax. The values for rooms have gone down significantly, not sure how that is going to work out but I do know that requests for my rooms have declined dramatically. I just got back from a home in an undisclosed state who doesn’t even use AirBnB, it’s all word of mouth. He is a single homeowner renting rooms to people who are on a healing journey. Magically a group of 6 people shared a home, 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths over a weekend. He provided affordable beds to those of us who were seeking to heal ourselves, he made income to pay his bills and probably decided…you know what I can keep this home and make a living and the community at large benefitted from us purchasing food at their wonderful restaurants and wares in the stores. Let this tribe thrive, let us show you how we can all learn how to live together successfully, let go of the old model and old paradigms. No matter what you try to do to us we will find a way to gather and heal because GOD wants us to and the more you threaten, limit, harass, tax, yadda yadda to US the more the effects of KARMA will come upon you, your families, your business, your industry. Just saying… Love and Light. Athena in Asheville