I’ve seen this a bunch of times: guests whose profile says also a host but no properties associated with their profile. I also assume a lot of folks stop hosting. We have people here all the time who stop, sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently.
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Thanks, I knew it did and kind of looked.
I thought a few years ago if you were a host and were booking as a guest it said so and the host could read your reviews. So, I was mystified that it simply said, also a host, but zero information.
@Terryathome, I’m surprised that you never verified your ID as a host. When I signed up in November of 2018, Airbnb really made it look like verified government ID was a requirement for hosts. They made it seem like I couldn’t sign up without it. When I went through it with my wife as co-host, I saw that they did let you sign up without it, but it’s clear they wanted hosts to have verified ID even when guests didn’t.
I can’t remember the process but thought I had verified it when becoming a host.
I was never asked for verified ID when I started hosting in 2016. And still don’t have any on my profile.
It’s the same ID and process. If you had done it when you signed up as a host, you wouldn’t have been asked to do it again as a guest. I think I just signed up during a time period when they were pushing it more strongly, for better or worse.
I just experienced something similar. I went to book a place for my family and they host asked a bunch of Covid19 questions (fair enough though we don’t have Covid19 in the community here) but then wanted me to provide photo ID of the entire party (wife and two kids). I have identified myself to AirBnB already and I am also a host (I was a superhost but all my bookins dried up in April and were replaced by BDC 
). So I withdrew the request and went for another place. The host this time only wants to sight my ID upon checkin. As a host myself I never ask for ID but I only accept guests who have been verified and I do my utmost to never see them with self checkin and lockboxes etc.
It’s interesting when hosts complain about how hard it is to be an Airbnb guest. It’s why I use IB and why I tend to book with places that use IB too.
I’m too old and impatient to wait for some inexperienced host to approve me. Or, even, reject me. No thanks.
I’ve read so much about hosts who reject people because they are local, because they are a certain age, because they asked for a discount, because they have no profile photo, because they are foreign, because they have blue eyes, because they have red hair … or whatever reasons they come up with.
It’s too much of a faff for me.
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About instant book—I stopped using it because when my condo was listed as 2br/2ba sleeps 6, I kept getting requests for high school graduation groups.
I think with my newer Max of 2 guests, I’m going to try again.
You’ve given some good feedback for me to consider
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I have had three different guests on three different occasions whose profile said they were hosts. Once they were here, I asked them about their hosting experience and they had no idea what I was talking about. I showed them their profile on my phone indicating they were hosts and they were just as confused as me. I have also had actual hosts, only one was less than ideal. She was clearly looking for someone who had done all the work and wanted to copy the setup. She even used wording from my listing. She didn’t last long. Lol.
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I’m wondering how do you know they are hosts other than looking at the reviews. I guess I haven’t hosted any hosts yet, but I do travel a lot and I am a host.
Their profile says they are hosts right beneath where it shows their reviews and where they live. But none of the 3 that I referred to ever listed that they were hosts. Just another “glitch.”