Tim Hubbard explains why Airbnb hosts should limit photos of people in listings. Too many images of the owner, especially on the furniture, make guests feel like they're intruding on someone's home instead of renting a welcoming space.
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People are like, oh, great, I can put people in my photos, and it's going to automatically boost my listings. Well, not if you do it in the wrong way. So what do you not want to do? You don't want to have a picture of someone in all of your photos. Right? You've got to ask yourself, is putting a person in this photo adding some sort of value to my guests? Is this attracting my guests more to my property? Or is it just showing someone simply in a space? I literally saw one photo where there seemed to be the Colombian owner just sitting there on the couch. And what was I thinking? I'm thinking, I don't want to stay in this place. This is like, this is this Colombian dude's home, and I don't want to be in there.