Airbnb: choose who to welcome for your first reservation

[Shankar Patil]

Hello Everyone,

I recently listed my Airbnb listing and finally decided to move out of Evolve.

The listing is fairly ready, but I had a question on "choose who to welcome for your first reservation"
there are two options 

1. Anyone on Airbnb
2. An experienced guest(This i learnt to be someone who is verified by airbnb)

I have selected as an experienced guest, but that also means I will be discouraging a lot of other guests who are yet to be verified.

what is your take on this, and is it a good idea to just have anyone on Airbnb book it?

regards,
Patil

[Matt Owens]

I go with "Anyone on Airbnb" and I'd suggest you do that. You can tighten up your guest requirements (i.e. require a govt id, require a profile photo, minimum age of person booking, etc.). Unless your market is in such demand you think you can be picky and still crush it?