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Charles Cormier booked his first Airbnb and had to refund it after missing a hiking reservation. He learned to set a minimum 3-day booking lead time and check the app regularly, treating the loss as a lesson for building his Airbnb business.

Charles Cormier booked his first Airbnb and had to refund it after missing a hiking reservation. He learned to set a minimum 3-day booking lead time and check the app regularly, treating the loss as a lesson for building his Airbnb business.
Hey, guys. So, as you might have known, I started my Airbnb experience, and this weekend I went hiking and I had a reservation, couldn't make it. So now I have to give a refund to the person. So I'm learning a lot, you know, like, this is normal. Not pissed or frustrated or anything. I guess a normal person would be it themselves. But lesson of the story here, put, like, if you have your Airbnb experience, put like three days minimum for them to book and obviously check the app. So I'm gonna download the app and all of this. But, yeah, learning a lot. This is the start my Airbnb experience empire and learning tons of.

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