Yes, it's clear that host support has declined, as well as the general quality of guests. We're now forced to decline more inquiries than accept them.
Having said that, comparing VRBO and Airbnb, in our entire history since 2012, we've had hundreds of bookings from Airbnb and until last year, about 90% have been the ideal, family oriented guest that VRBO claims they deliver. And most of the remaining 10% were large professional groups.
Since the beginning, we've had only two bookings from VRBO, both were the single worst guests we'd had up until that point. Young party animals, causing damage. And back then, there was no recourse, like Airbnb of today. So, we dropped all other platforms.
But because Airbnb has become much the same as the others, and the quality of guest continues to drop, we've signed up with VRBO again.
So, we receive maybe 1/10th the inquiries on VRBO that we receive on Airbnb.
But... This is a bit depressing... Out of 8 enquiries from VRBO, we have declined 7 of them, because they're consistently groups of 20-something party animals. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
On Airbnb, it's also depressing.. We're now forced to decline almost 1/3 of them... Because they have no history and not telling us the truth, don't read the description, are planning parties, and so-on.
What happened to the good old days when almost every guest was nice and totally honest, just coming for a relaxing holiday?