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Hi, I have kind of an unusual situation I’m wondering if anyone has encountered before. A guest claiming to be a traveling nurse from an hour away from my home contacted me several weeks ago. She said she wanted to stay at my place every Tuesday and Wednesday for the entire month of February. She said she wanted to go through the app for the first visit and pay cash for the rest. I told her I was not comfortable with that and she needed to book through Airbnb. She booked through Airbnb to stay February 7th to February 8th. Last week, on January 31st, She texted me requesting check-in instructions saying that she was on her way. I said the reservation is for next Tuesday February 7th why would you be coming today? She said oops my mistake and said she was turning around to go home. She messaged me this morning and said she was coming at 3:00 p.m. I should have clarified that yes 3:00 p.m. tomorrow the 7th. I gave her check and instructions and she showed up. Today. I said your reservation is for tomorrow February 7th. It is not today. She said she would go check and went out to her car and drove off. She has since messaged me saying she’s at a hotel.
I got on the phone with Airbnb to request clarification. I told her if she wants to stay two nights, she needs to book and pay for two nights. She said that the app won’t let her do that. I said she needs to call customer support to get help. I am waiting to hear what they say in return. But I am starting to wonder if this woman doesn’t know what day it is or something and whether it’s safe to even have her in my home. If she is that confused about the days of the week and claims to be a traveling nurse. It just seems very strange. Has anyone experienced something like this? I will just wait and see what Airbnb customer service can do.
I believe you can adjust the dates from your end and send to her to accept the changes. As for the confusion in dates, it might be that she’s stressed. Did you google her name to confirm she’s a nurse?
That is an excellent idea however I only have her first name so I have no idea what her profession is. Someone tried booking with me the other day who didn’t even have a verified ID. I think Airbnb is completely lax about who they allow to join the platform and make reservations. I will ask her to supply an ID when she shows up again.
Hi again, Airbnb supplied her full name so I searched the state nurse registry and she is an actively licensed nurse so that’s good. I also ran a criminal background search.on my state and nothing showed up. So at least her reason for traveling is legit. I’m just confused as to why she’s having such a hard time with the reservation dates. It’s possible she has a condition of some kind and I don’t want to judge that.
I am confused, why do you check their licence? Why do you prefer to rent to people with licenses. I’m not being daft…i have just no idea why you are checking a nursing licence? I am from Canada and I am a Registered Nurse.
I normally never check someone’s license unless something suspicious happens and the fact that this person could not seem to get their dates straight made me question their reason for needing to come here. It’s very odd that they were so unsure about reality of what today’s date is compared to when the reservation is. Since her story is that she’s coming as a registered nurse to do some work, I wanted to make sure. I never check credentials. Just when something happens that makes it not sit right in my gut which is not very often. I believe that most people are honest and good but I am reluctant to share space in my home with someone who is not.
I have not heard of that. Sounds suspicious. I just had someone ask for a receipt saying they’d stayed with me in addition to whatever receipts they get from Airbnb. I’m confused about that.
Ok, Nurses can be slobs too, just because they have a valid nursing license doesn’t mean they would make a good tenant. Wouldn’t it be more reliable if you could ask for references from previous landlords.
I think it would be safe to assume she was confused with the dates because of stress. There’s a shortage of nurses so hospitals assign to nurses so many patients plus they work 12 hour days. In addition, they work with patients and patient’s family members that are not always very kind. Also they have to deal with difficult doctors. They’re truly heroes with little recognition.
Pf course the fact that there is a huge fraud thing where “nurses” bought their degrees for about 15k (about 20% passed the certification thing, whatever that’s called) and they are still out there. I can not 100% trust even if they’re certified because they may have not finished all their classes or clinicals
I’m worried that if they lie and cheat to play with people’s lives & health that they could easily bring many more issues. The background check only deals with concretes so it is helpful but at the moment I do question nurses integrity & honesty. Although some of the 2800 have been caught & beginning in the system that may start to show up on the background check.
I’m just saying that we cannot assume that she’s just tired because she’s a nurse working long hours; she legitimately may be unhinged & you cannot ignore that possibility for the time being.
Besides, with all that said, my grandmother was a nurse & switched pain meds with saline for over 20 years.
Wow, a nursing conspiracy! New to me (but I do not regularly watch F News or Breitbart, so I am ‘uninformed’ of this). Care to cite your source for these percentages and allegations? If 80% of nurses fail their courses, this is a BIG deal… and so is ‘buying’ a certification…
How about the Department of Justice regarding the topic & what they’ve been able to do about it?
The only thing I’m wrong about is that the amount is greater. These are nurses who did not complete the school but to get certified they had to take the NCLEX for their certification. Their pass is about 20%. So take 20% who didn’t go to school, somehow passed an exam are out there committing fraud.
Btw, I’m a full on liberal (vaxxed, boosted, and masked too) who doesn’t pay attention to the right wing propaganda if that even matters considering politics is the first thing you want to sling around.
This is one case. Not all nurses. And in Florida, so there is that lol.
I am sort of on a mission to stop folks from saying percentages or ‘facts’ without proof. In your case you said something about
But it is not every nurse, or every certification. The ‘alternate facts’ are not acceptable. You intimated it was a huge fraud but it is only a small subset of the over 4.3 MILLION registered nurses in the US. It denigrates nursing to imply that buying acreddation etc is rampant.
You could quote murder statistics and the fact that a certein percent is small compared to the grand scope of things negates the fact that it isn’t a current problem. The same was said when covid was rampant. You still do your best to be vigilant. Nobody wants a doctor who didn’t attain their credentials legitimately.
All I am saying is not all nurses are an issue but to assume that aren’t is negligent (if coming up with an excuse for being erratic or forgetful).
While I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, as we all screw up sometimes, I’d have to agree that this guest getting her booking date wrong, not once, but twice, doesn’t warrant a “maybe she’s just tired”.
Sure, nurses work long hours, and are often tired, but so do lots of people in other professions.
I’d be concerned that if she can’t even pay attention to her booking dates, she’s not going to pay attention to your house rules, appliance usage instructions, will go out all day to work leaving the heat blasting and all the lights on, etc.
