Short YouTube clip (Tim Hubbard) discussing local reservations for short-term rentals. Hubbard warns that locals booking a property can be a red flag (e.g., potential parties) but not always; post-COVID norms shifted to allowing vetted local guests and he recommends asking why a local is booking.
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So the second one, we've talked a lot about this in the past, and that's accepting locals. It's a red flag. But not always. Not always. I don't want to say that these reasons we're talking about are always going to be red flags, but if someone's local and they're booking your property, you just simply want to find out why. Why are they booking a property in the same town where they live? It's a good question asked because sometimes those can be.
Potential party scenarios. We used to never allow local reservations. We do now after Covid, because during COVID a lot of people just weren't traveling from far away. And now I'm happy that we've discovered ways to vet our guests a little bit better because we do have lots of local reservations, and a lot of them are really good. So easy way is just to ask them. It.