CNN  —  When a substantial plumbing disaster strikes, most Airbnb friends would pack their baggage and need their revenue back again, while their hosts would glumly compose off their gains and try to fail to remember about it. But for German vacationers Elke Thau-Montgomery and Rudi Thau, and their American hosts Beth Ann Moon and Jennifer Steinberg, a calamitous Airbnb predicament turned into a continent-spanning, five-several years-and-counting friendship. Florida-centered couple Beth and Jennifer outlined the apartment linked to their dwelling on Airbnb for the first time in 2017. Beth and Jennifer are gay, and were being wary about homophobia from their friends (Beth jokes that she hid from the initially…