I started with BnB about a month ago. At the first day, there was this question, rent the house or bedrooms. I wanted to rent the whole house since the whole house is available.
I used the smart pricing, and it looked pretty good.
I got 3 reservations right away and noticed "my" mistake. Shifted to all bedrooms right away.
It looks dumb now, but only after going through the mistake. When we rent a house (whether normal rent or whatever), we (and city codes) make sure that dumb mistakes from the dwellers will not hurt anyone. That is what Codes are about. Bnb should think the same way.
- The site needs to be very clear for brand new people
Do you want to rent all house or all bedrooms or some bedrooms? Does it hurt to have this extra question??
Well, I did not cancel any of the reservations because it was "my" fault.
Passed 40 days, and renting all the rooms now, it gets overbooked. The full house was rented and two bedrooms were rented.
2. Host and Guest of one individual room agreed to cancel it and get full refund PLUS self-offered compensation out of my pocket for what I consider to be a code issue.
Now the second problem. Guest cannot cancel it. If I cancel, I am severely punished.
This has to change. Is it too much of problem to have an extra line of code:
IF {addres} is rented as full house
then rooms are UNrentable.
Is it that difficult?
OR be very clear that
Renting the whole house is not the same as renting ALL bedrooms?
Very upset.