Same day booking over New Years

[John Underwood]

I received a booking same day request from the Airbnb platform for my Lake House.

Yes I was concerned.

It was a 4 day booking.

What happened was that the people were in Atlanta on their way to SC from Florida and they received a cancelation on the house they were heading to due to frozen water pipes that had ruptured.

They pulled over for an hour and a half and scrambled to find some place else. 

They didn't read much of my ad, but I got multiple text messages from them saying how happy they were with the house and they wanted to come back when it was warm!

I saw on the news that plumbers were overloaded with water pipe repairs. So take care of preventative maintenance such as winterizing your house. Pipe insulation, heat trace tape, leaving water running in the sink can all help prevent damage from a frozen pipe.

Same thing was going on in the smokey mountains, luckily we didn't have any issues there either. There was some rolling power outages, but they didn't last long.