@Tyler409 Third party bookings are against Airbnb Terms of Service. If you find some great deal to tell your friends about, what is stopping them from setting up their own account and booking it themselves?
Hosts are not covered by Airbnb for any issues or damages that might arise if the booking party is not part of the reservation.
The only exception to 3rd party bookings is if you have a business account set up and book for employees.
But the main problem for hosts with 3rd party bookings, aside from not being backed by Airbnb, is that the host can't communicate with the actual guest if they don't book themselves through their own account. And quite often, if not most of the time, the person who booked doesn't convey any of the important listing information to the person they booked for. So the guest arrives not knowing that smoking isn't permitted anywhere on the property, that they can't have visitors, that there isn't high speed Wifi, that pets aren't allowed, expecting to have a full kitchen, when the host only provides a microwave and an electric kettle, etc, etc.