Hi, I’m hoping some hosts can help me out. I recently found a flat/room listing in Glasgow on Gumtree, and reached out to find out about it. The owner was very forthcoming with information about herself, but she’s based in Spain and so isn’t able to show me the property herself.
She’s asking me to do a long-term rental through Airbnb, which I am happy to do in theory, but she’s asked me to provide a copy of my ID before she opens up the rental listing on Airbnb so she can set me as a “preferred tenant”. Is this a thing?
I’ve asked to have a video chat with her before giving any info of that sort, but I also just wanted to see if this was a standard thing hosts do for their own protection?
Any help welcome!