Can someone explain to me why JB's representing himself as managing 4 airbnbs in various locations sounds sketchy? I don't know anything about airbnbs and how they are managed.
I'm a few pages behind, so I don't know if other people replied. But I want to post my opinion, I also don't know much about how they are "managed". I started to watch the trial (it's on youtube) a couple of days ago before JB was killed. I still didn't finish it, but I watched his testimony also a few days before he was killed.
His entire testimony seemed really strange to me. It started with what he was wearing (and if you don't want to wear a suit, jeans and a black shirt or something would have been a lot less strange to me, something less "loud") and ended with how much he seemed like he didn't want to be there.
I didn't get the feeling though that he was scared that somebody could kill him, it seemed more like he had something to hide. The way he looked down a lot, didn't want to look people in the eye (I mean, with what we know now, he was a criminal himself, so it makes sense now why he didn't want to look the prosecutor in the eye and why being in a courtroom as such is something he really didn't like - but before I knew all that I still got the feeling he is hiding something). All in all I didn't think about what that could be or if he was just really nervous - just having to talk in front of people AND TV cameras would make me really nervous too. I was just paying attention to what he said like with all the other witnesses.
But something that was really strange to me also was the "managing 3 or 4 airbnbs to make a living". Claiming that's how you make money, that is your job. "Managing" them would mean something like looking after them, cleaning them or having them cleaned, managing the rent money, stuff like that, while somebody else owns them.
So if you actually work for a company that owns them, just managing 3 or 4, I doubt you'd make a lot of money with that. If you work for a company and they have several and maybe also own several other houses and apartment buildings and you basically do their book keeping, then yes, that would be a full-time job. But only 3 or 4 apartments? This sounded to me like he doesn't really have a job and there is something else going on but in court he had to find something that he could say to make it sound like he actually works.
The only thing that would make sense is if you own them (but you need a lot of money in the first place to buy 3 apartments) and rent them to people, then the rent money would probably be enough to make a living, maybe even a pretty good one depending on the apartments.
While I was confused in the beginning, I was pretty sure that him being killed had nothing to do with AG. I pretty much thought he was killed by other black men (and not white policemen), not only because black on black crime is a huge, huge problem and statistically it made sense, but also because I knew something was off with his testimony or with how he acted. And because he said on the stand that he had problems with drug possession before.
But I really wanted to think that maybe he wanted to buy drugs and got shot, I was quite shocked to hear that he was a drug dealer, and not even a small one. I didn't expect it to be that "bad".
MOO
