How to only allow check-ins for the following week on my mid term airbnb

[Josh55]

I'm Trying to avoid gaps in my Mid term rental. I am wondering what others have done with host functionality to solve this.

I currently only open my availability for about 35 days from the last day of my last checkout. This means guests can just book these days and I avoid far out future bookins and gaps, but obviously it only makes my listing show up to guests looking for these specific dates and for only a 30 to 35 day booking (due to local law I can only book 30 night or more stays).

I'd like to offer my place to guests looking to book my place for up to 4 months instead, but I'd only like them to book if they are checking in within the week after my last stay (again to minimize gaps).

Any suggestions with custom rule sets, etc?

my listing https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/16054644?viralityEntryPoint=1&s=76

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Josh55 I think you could do the following where night 1 is the first night that is available after an existing booking:

Open availability for say 6 months from the current guest checkout date

Create a ruleset that doesn't allow check in on any day of the week and apply it to night 8 through 6 months from night 1.

I think it is that simple.

You can then move the ruleset out further from night 8 as night 1 approaches and you haven't had any interest.

Sadly the inability to negotiate dates is a fundamental flaw in using Airbnb over a traditional realtor. 

[Josh55]

Mike - It gives me an error if I check all the boxes of the week for "guests cant check in on" when making a rule set...
So ive made a rule set for no checkin except sundays and applied it to every non sunday a few months out from the last booking. Then I made a rule set that doesnt allow check-in on sundays and applied it to every sunday a few months out. 

Hoping this allows guests to only check-in the week after my last booking but book any length of stay from 30 (my city's minimum) to a few months. 

Because of my cities min night book - airbnb knows this and auto applies a rule to not allow shorter than 30 nights and sometimes this messes up rule sets, so will see if this actually works out

[Rebecca]

Hi @Josh55 👋

I'm tagging @Mike-And-Jane0 here so they receive a notification of your message. If you type "@" and then the username, this will tag the member that you're replying to. 😊

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Josh55 Good to hear you may be sorted. We used to create a ruleset not allowing check ins on any day of the week when we were going to be away but didn't want to stop people staying whilst we were away. Perhaps things have changed since we hosted.

A simpler way of achieving what you have s just to apply both your rulesets to the next X months. You can have multiple rulesets applicable to the same night and it just makes it easier to implement.

To test what you have done you need to search for your property as a guest and see if it works when you try and book certain dates.

I would also ado your description asking potential guests to message you if they want to stay post XXX date. I think it will be easy to keep your description up to date as you will only need to update it once for every guest you have.