All Forum Posts by: Paige Martin

@Michael Hill I am looking through the archives on zestimates/estimates on homes to see if I can find more information ...and Google-ing of course. I saw your response on this thread and thought I would reach out. Based on your knowledge of being able to edit your own property information do you think it is possible to falsify a property estimate? I have a specific property in mind, it is (was?) for sale at basically the exact estimate, which in my opinion is at least a million over what it's market value is (even in today's market). I have done a fair amount of research and the seller is supposed to send financials but seems to be intentionally delaying at this point. Would love to get in touch if you might have any insight!

@Steve K. Thanks for that tip! I haven't heard of that before...the things we can do with the internet!

@Joe Splitrock great point. We have definitely struggled in other circumstances where we felt like they weren't supporting us at all and they should have been!

@A.J. D'Asaro thanks a lot for your sharing your insight, it definitely helps put things into perspective!

@Dave Stokley good point haha..I am usually the cynic but I think him being a marine hit a soft spot

@Dan Thomas from what I have read some people think the quality of vrbo guests is better than airbnb...we have 2 properties listed on both and I would say we get 98% of our bookings from airbnb. Not sure why

@Dave Stokley maybe it's a start...but guests are humans and the algorithm isn't always a sure fire way to prevent bad guests. In our case, even after explaining why our guest lived close by (currently on the local marine base) and wanting A NYE getaway with his girlfriend...they still wouldn't budge. I feel like if a host or guest calls to explain the situation they should take that into account. Their algorithm blocked the booking and then allegedly airbnb did their own investigation and decided to still block it. I doubt their investigation was legitimate. They're just costing us money at this point and not working with hosts or the guests.

They recommended also the guest try to book some shared spaces on airbnb before new years to get 3 reviews...sounds reasonable *eye roll*

@John Teachout that is ridiculous! I hope your property remained safe from the deadly animal haha

@Doug H. Thank you! We spoke to another airbnb support person who explained the high risk a little more indepth..she said "festive time" with no reviews specifically which makes sense based on what you found too. Our guest is at the marine base near by and just wanted a get away with his girlfriend for NYE so we wanted to work with him..he sent us our number in three messages so we didn't have to risk our account being shut down

@Bruce Woodruff thank you for the input, we are hoping to get this one on vrbo soon like our other two. And that's pretty clever with the phone number and file upload! Thank you!