Hiya,
I've been a superhost for over 4 years now, and occasionally I find myself in a situation where I want to leave more honest feedback, but don't feel confident in doing so.
I understand the importance of other hosts reading honest feedback and have made the suggestion to AirBnB that they should find a way for us to read private feedback on a potential guest if there is anything negative they don't want the guest to see. It should be quite easy for them to create an algorithm to flag host-to-host feedback on a particular person?
Only 2 weeks ago I had a perfectly friendly chap stay for a week but he left my front door unlocked 5 times, the window open 3 times, spilt tea down the wall (and didn't tell me) and other annoying things yet he had only 5 star reviews from previous hosts!
The most concerning factor for me was that I cooked him a few meals during his stay, and he was the one that suggested I charged him slightly more for them and wrote it down. Then when he left, I sent the request and he denied he'd offered that amount but said he'd pay up if I didn't give him a bad review. When I said I wouldn't mention the tea stain, he said he'd rather not get a review at all if it wasn't going to be good.
So, why am I worried and making this suggestion...? Because guests know where we live (and he was local - between 2 rental houses) and we don't know where they live, so IMO they have an advantage when wanting to be honest in their feedback.
Does anyone else out there share my POV and would anyone else recommend this to AirBnB?
Thanks
Karen