@Steve2584There is no right or wrong with regards to rebooking the same guest vs. opening the dates to new guests. If most of your month-to-month guests rebook, then of course it is reasonable to reserve subsequent months for them if you think they have been a good fit. Perhaps you should block subsequent months on your calendar and only make them available when you are informed a guest is checking out. That way you won’t have to deal with incoming inquiries for those months.
You said your main reason for the posting was to get insight/ideas/experiences from hosts regarding booking people who just joined ABB and have 0 reviews. I don’t see that you ever asked any questions about new users in your original post.
That being said, you’ll definitely get a lot of different views on that. For me, I typically ask more questions of new users in hopes of increasing the odds of a good fit, and check that proper verifications have been submitted (ID, email, etc.) Past that, I accept guests with 0 reviews, and have found most of them to be some of the best guests I’ve ever had, so I don’t use newness to the platform as a criteria for denying a reservation.
However, for month or longer stays, I would do a lot more verification (like checking credit and references), especially these days. Because of Covid, there is a federal ban on evictions until Dec. 31, and some local states and jurisdictions have additional bans as well. Someone who stays longer than 30 days is considered a tenant, not a guest, no matter how you break up the stay. Your worst nightmare would be to get stuck with a squatter.