We've basically had no requests at all until yesterday, all for this weekend, which went as follows:
1. Covid 1st responder wants to stay for almost a month. Great. Except the guest never responded to multiple messages for almost 8 hours, never confirmed a check in time, never confirmed having read the house rules, never responded to anything and so we were forced to deny the request because it started to feel like some type of scam and it was concerning that a first responder would not be concerned about COVID, either in terms of them bringing risk to us or vice versa.
2. Guest wants to book for 2, this weekend, great, starts off asking a random question. We dialogue. Then the guest wants to bring a baby and another person. Fine even though the place is listed as not suitable for under 2. Then the guest can't change the reservation to 4 guests and then they disapear.
3. At 2:30 am guest, local, messages saying having trouble with ID verification. We respond this morning. We've now sent the guest 3 messages and airbnb help 1 message. No idea if this guest will be arriving tomorrow or not. UPDATE: The guest withdrew the request.
So, I guess the summary is that guests seem to have extremely, extremely poor communication skills and even a lack of understanding of how the system works, as if they think the request=confirmation.