Since the launch of this flexible platform with its Anytime Anymonth search system my 2 guesthouse listings, which I only rent monthly since the pandemic hit, have disappeared from the platform and not seen in searches. View data proves this factcrashed to zero. It took me a whole month of vacancy starting Dec. 18 and continued until Feb. 1 when a guest input the specific dates she wanted and booked my Parkside Crash Pad. Then the light bulb went off. I then tested the flexible functions and discovered that the program totally eliminates both my listings from search discovery " when searching from a computer". When i search from my Apple Iphone or Ipad they both appear in search results.
I have deduced that the programing for the flex thing is geared to discover holes in calendars which it can fill in with a Weekend or Week or Month of vacant time. Only those properties are presented- along with the dates it found for the search requested. It shows you those dates. ONLY.
The difference with the Devices is that they do not show those dates available in holes in calendars. When I search my devices all I put is my city, click Monthly Stays and both listings show up ! Devices compress and abbreviate data so my listings are not eliminated because it does pull dates.
My business exploded when I went monthly after COVID hit and I have never looked back. Last year occupancy 93% going monthly only. I can only imagine a lot of other hosts have done the same thing.
Please I beg Airbnb to study the occupancy data of the supper high occupancy listings from 2021, to 2022 now. Not also data of December 2021 when the Flexible was launched.
And the very idea of renting an Airbnb for a monthly rental works perfectly for the gig economy worker, the remote on-line worker, medical travel nurses, etc. So why did they remove the Monthly Filter? It captured that huge market perfectly. Most guests rent for more than one month!
Now all that is destroyed. I remember when they took away the Monthly search bubble. I complained about it then. Was told people can just put in a search for the dates they want . It does not work that way. When searching for a place to rent monthly they think the word Monthly is showing properties that rent monthly-literally.
THIS IS URGENT. I have reported this entire mess to Airbnb weeks ago. Nothing is happening. How can they not realize they just killed the cash cow that saved thousands of Hosts from going broke by going Monthly all last year. All because some bone head geek thinks of filling holes in calendars is a way to make more money???
Airbnb occupancy rates are at 11% right now according Airbnb Automated. My occupancy of 93% is probably the same for my fellow Monthly Hosts.prior to Dec. 2021.
We need for Airbnb to restore the Monthly Platform right now. Not only restore but promote it as a new way for Hosts to succeed and prosper by going monthly . The world of travel and housing and work has changed.
Airbnb was sitting on its greatest idea because it accommodates the change. It serves the change. And it solves COVID issues !
Susan