I am becoming the quintessential "grumpy old man" a lot sooner than most people do. I attribute the fasttrack to airbnbs lack of caring for its hosts and its sometimes idiotic, moronic and disrespectful guests.
Yesterday afternoon, a guests supposed "friendly & submissive" dog bit my dog without warning, 20 seconds after meeting. I have to take him to the vet today.
In 3 years of being "dog friendly" here at our airbnb, this hasn't happened because I make sure to ask each guest about their dogs temperament, socialization and biting potential. This is her response before I clicked the accept reservation button... "When we take him on walks, he either lays down in submission or wags his tail and sniffs the other dogs. We've never seen him show any signs of attacking anyone or any animal."
The dog didn't lay down, wag its tail or sniff my dog. He just immediately bit him. She later tells me they got him from the humane society recently and really didn't know what he was capable of. Yea I'm prickly.
I come here to blow off steam with other hosts and am quickly called a misogynistic racist by hosts like sarah (who aren't even hosting people now!). When I don't have this outlet, it may start affecting my bookings. We shall see. The $6k a month will be sorely missed but airbnbs ever changing, anti-host policies and it's guests will not.
In my defense, you all are just mainly seeing my negative side. I come here to blow off steam and hopefully have like minded people sympathize with me on the sh*t that sometimes happens to an airbnb host. I don't come here daily to while away the hours and "chat" like some do. I could come here to post about the many wonderful families, couple, people and dogs I host on a regular basis but I'm busy. If you want to know that side of me, go read my 550 five star reviews from people that have met me, stayed here, eaten, drank, swam, talked and played pinball with me.