Business seems to have fell after summer

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I can easily forgive errors when someone is trying to write in what is not their first language. (I do agree it’s lazy not to have someone fluent proofread a listing, though). The errors and turns of phrase they come up with are often quite funny and charming.

And I can usually tell when someone is using predictive text and doesn’t bother to look things over before posting or sending.

I also understand that some people are just terrible spellers. It’s some brain glitch- I have a friend like that. She’s quite intelligent, is an avid reader, but she could have seen a simple 6 letter word written a thousand times and still spell it wrong.

It’s when people are grammatically incorrrect in their native tongue that my hackles go up.

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Uhh… I hope that those aren’t the original fridge shelves. In AK they warn us not to use them for smoking because they’re cadmium plated.

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I’ve seen a guest’s boyfriend standing across the street, smoking over the storm drain, but I’ve never had one smoke in the house.

I went to “no smoking anywhere on the property” after my sister’s house burned down when a “non smoking” tenant put his cig out in a dried out flower pot on the porch. I’m not taking any chances.

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Just normal activity for my listing.
Even prior to CV everything fell off the cliff and bookings dropped after the summer peak.
Trickle along over the winter months with a few peaks and the usual pattern of repeat guests,new guests,loads of guests coming and going.
Airbnb is just one of my income streams,so not an issue.

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I agree with you but add in one other category. I know many people who have hand tremors or severe hand arthritis. They do their best. Sometimes, by the time they see errors, they are tired of trying and just let it ride.

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