As some of you, guys, know, I've been into long term rent for international police and embassy workers for a very long time.
I have apartments in one of the Oldest Guest Houses in Europe, about 150 y.o. (Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the very center of the capital).
And, as I'm trained by international police workers as customers, my ad is one of the most detailed and strict in the world. 11 pages of rules just for renting sofa (1 room in one of the apartments, where I also live).
I'm selling around 28 nights a months, a lot of customers make reservations during the second half of the day, so my room is like an emergency service for them, when they get rejected by other owners, or have very late night flights.
You can see my ad on airbnb site here:
A lot of you made fun of me ( and not only you, but my neighbours and owners of other properties in this house as well), that it's impossible to get a customer with such strict rules. But later with the practice I discovered that many catigories of clients are actually using my rules to their advantage.
Once I got a booking request from the very strict father comming from the very strict middle east country, who was affraid to let his daughter go to Europe as single tourist. His daughter looked like instagram model. She found my apartment, showed the number of rules to the father. Father booked her stay and was especially happy for the rule: "The additional guests from the Lessee are forbidden". That looked like a garantee to him, that his daughter will not be dating boys on my territory. Needless to say, the girl had her own plans outside of the house during the night.
But, I just recently discovered another catigory of clients, who also vote for "No additional guest" rules.
I had a young women as a client. The foreign office booked her stay. But later she said that the guy, who booked her stay for her is much much older and she doesn't know how to get rid of his extra attention.
And, as ADDITIONAL GUESTS from the side of the Lessee are forbidden, it "saved her life".
So, if you want your stay to be paid by your potential wooer, but you don't wanna sleep with him, book the room in my apartment.
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