Thanks for the new newsletter - always interesting, but also a bit disappointing:
1.) I was particularly looking forward to reading about the insights by the two Airbnb engineers on how to boost our hosting. But it really didn't tell me much of anything, ultimately in my case it always goes back to setting lower prices, which is the only thing I see regularly on my listing as their recommendation. With all due respect, I can think of that on my own.
2.) As to the updating one's listing with new, more specific labels maybe a good idea, but the implementation of it already caused problems:
a.) the link provided in the newsletter to update one's listing ( with the newer labels) didn't work for me, neither on mobile, nor on desktop, and I am signed in: it comes back as " error - you do not have permission to access this resource."
b.) I had actually just noticed the "more specific labels" on my own this morning on my listing before getting to the newsletter here:
I suddenly saw my place listed as "Entire House" - which it isn't! Where did that come from, I wondered? It used to be named something like entire house/apartment which I was comfortable with, as it is the entire apartment on the first level of my house. : yes, "Entire House" may be more specific, but it's also wrong! So I sure wish Airbnb wouldn't get into one's listing and change things for the worse, not better!
c.) Makes me also wonder how many hosts are as diligent and fast regarding changes as I am, as it took me a while to get into my listing to find the right place to change it so that now it says "entire guest suite" - which I'm fine with. Not happy that Airbnb took it upon themselves to wrongly classify my place as "entire house" instead of "entire guest suite". They need to be more diligent and accurate in making their changes!. Luckily I could change it before any guest might possibly say I had misrepresented my space. But what about other hosts whose listings might now get mis-classified, and they are not aware of it?