Hello hosts,
Just an observation from our over a year as hosts. Despite an exhaustive listing and Guidebook we still get inquiries that can be answered by reading same. Without fail, if we get three questions the folks don't book, which is a time-wasting source of frustration. The key for us is adapting to ease stress so I recently put "please read entire listing before making inquiries" as the first line in our listing. I remember seeing that on another listing and wondering but now understand why. In addition, I answer the first question and then politely refer them to the listing for others. I recently answered all the questions for a 3-day, 3-person potential booking but the result was still no booking. Our rates are seasonally low, our place is highly rated and we are Super Hosts, so go figure. However, my comment every time is "why don't people just read what I spent ours writing?" Thoughts?
