@Sarah977 this morning when I went into my listings page to make an edit I saw a little notice under the edit link that I needed to make some kind of special edits, I forget how they worded it and I wish I had taken a screenshot now. The implication was that the listings were either for rent by 'Owner' or professionally managed / commercial, but I honestly can't remember if those were the exact words. It definitely mentioned something like that and then said "for example, you are in the hospitality business".
I now see that there's a bunch of new filters when I go in as if I am a guest and look at my listing. They are the same filters that correspond to what I filled out today, except there is nothing about wanting an owner managed listing versus a property managed listing or hotel.
When I had to check one of those boxes there was a note that was seemingly reassuring, saying that guests would see my listing no matter what. So I wonder when that particular filter will be rolled out. It seems to be very similar to what VRBO and HomeAway has, if you've ever gone in there to look as if you were a guest. It seems like some people have this on their platform and others don't, so I wonder if I'm in some kind of beta testing group that I don't know about.
Let me know here when it comes up in yours. I expected to see a lot of people talking about this today but I appear to be the only one! It's hard to believe I'm one of the only ones on this community forum that is seeing these new filters, but maybe a lot of people have and they are just not on this forum or don't think it's a big deal. Anything that screens out a listing to me is a big deal. And we therefore need to be as informed as possible, and maybe that's what Brian Chesky will be introducing tomorrow in his talk. We shall see!