I have been a host for 3 years. Although I live in a climate where you could assume we have a 'low season', because it is a major metropolitan city surrounded by mountains, people come here throgh the winter for many reasons - family, skiing, conferences, even just cheaper travel since it is the low travel seasons. For the first two years I was booked for every available date even through the winter. In 3 years, I have rarely received a review less than 5 stars, and am a Superhost.
A couple of months ago there was discussion in the news about stricter regulations coming to my city, so to preempt having to cancel reservations in a panic, I blocked the first three months of the year just so I could have time to observe what was going on. I thought this a sign of being respectful of guests and the possibility of derailing their plans, rather than being more concerned about losing revenue for the first quarter.
Very soon after, I noticed I did not receive any new reservation requests. I thought it was just a annomaly, so I didn't think about it much. Now that two months have gone by, I realized I am only booked for half of November and barely anything in December. Last week I got comfortable that nothing drastic with the rules in my city was going to happen soon, so I opened up the calendar, except for 3 weeks at the end of Dec/beginning of Jan when I will be away.
I came on the boards here and see comments about how your posting may fall down in search results if you block too much time on your calendar. Here I thought I was doing the right thing, but now I've lost a signficant amount of income. Is there a way to resolve this?