I don't know about you but I've been getting lots of really short and somewhat meaningless requests to book by lots of first timer guests. They immediately set off my spider senses when the profile is incomplete and has zero info about the possible guest. No one liner gets a confirmation at Bearpath Lodging, this is not a party house, hosts live within!!!!!!
Heres a couple recent ones, "Hey is this available" from a person that had no reviews and no location and really nothing but her first name, I thanked her for checking with us and asked her my normal barrage of questions including where are you from (we have a statewide qt on guests from 30+ states right now) and expressed expectations and expected I would hear nothing. The suite booked nicely from a guest with 25 perfect reviews for her dates 20 minutes later. About 2 hours later she wrote "I’m from new York Syracuse to be exact do u guys except cash", my last reply to her was "Hi ________the suite has already been booked I’m sorry, and no we don’t ever except cash payment we only work through Airbnb".
Another prospect guest named "Angel" wrote, "Hey love , is it possible to see pictures of your hot tub ?" This is the second person BTW that has wanted to see pictures of 1 person walk in spa tub we include in the listing in the bathroom, IDK why they cant just look at the pic's, its in there! This Angel had almost no info in their account info and Love isn't a standard intro in upstate NY (London maybe). I sent my list of questions and pointed to the pics in the listing and never heard back, that's okay with us, we need more than that or no key code for you!
in the last 3 years, I've become a super sleuth hound dog when it comes to smelling a rat in a request or weeding out scammers and party barge guests. I know you have had some odd opening requests, what are they and how did they turn out? Safe hosting Folks! JR