@Huma0
Here is hypothetical situation how to make certain that guests do understand and did read (as most of the guests never bother to read House Rules - "what - ME rules?" and then complain) and agree to comply with house rules (you can make "no holding any personal belongings past departure and absolutely no responsibility for forgotten things" part of the house rules),
so -
friend of mine with much better hosting experience told me this story -
he has a place suitable for 3 people max, he has gotten request (no "automatic booking acceptance abomination" of course) to book, the guy was stating "party of 3 people”.
My friend went through reviews and though most of them were positive he noticed that
- there were too many reviews (which is OK if it is 1-2 days business travel, but most stays were in places with minimum stay 5-6 days in resort areas – hey, nothing wrong with having good life, but none wants to have parties in their house – do we?) and
- In quite a few reviews hosts were saying "nice couples" - and mention the same names - meaning 2 couple travelled
As his place was clearly not suited for 4 and he did not want to decline or wait 24 hours for request to expire (hence no matter what affect his superhost status as "guest is always right" with airbnb) - he resent House Rules to potential guests and requested to acknowledge then particularly stressing out "Only guests listed in agreement allowed to stay overnight or stay will be immediately terminated without refund"
What do you know - guests canceled their request in about 15 minutes.
There are a lot of different people out there, not all of them bad, but most of them only think about themselves. LOL
Aitbnb has wonderful scheduled messages system - use it, do not worry about "annoying" quests - think about YOUR property and YOUR interests - YOU are the one to protect them.
I, right after booking, send out concise list of House Rules and ask potential guests to confirm and abide - and if they fail - I contact support and clearly indicate whose fault that decline was - I always my communications to prove it. Yes - takes a little more time, but nothing left to chance.
Still - too bad airbnb takes side of the guests in most cases. Even though airbnb claims to take host’s side if guest broke house rules – I can not help, but wonder how that works in the real life observing how weird new “better” interface changes of Summer Release are….
Rant over