2.75 in Atlantic City, NJ! There are some oddly low rated ones still on there, but guests tend to rate the area pretty harshly.
It’s known that Airbnb lets low-rated places remain on the platform as long as they are high earners for Airbnb. It’s only the hosts with one or two modest listings who get “warnings” from Airbnb if their ratings go below 4.7 or so.
There are places on the first page of search in some areas with 2.5 ratings, believe it or not.
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Zero sympathy for their guests. Zero.
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Years ago I had a review that mentioned me and said that I was very “contentious”. I hope that was a spelling error. 
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You may not have to, your stock and trade is easy access off the 10 last minute folks… Honestly I would not even consider a $40 listing as somewhere I would stay and I am sure there are plenty of people who think the same thing.
RR
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My luck we will be in lockdown II by the time I’m ready to reopen.
I have stayed in some nice $30 and $40 AirBnBs in Washington and Oregon. They were adapted sheds or rehabbed travel trailers (except for the one new listing where I advised them to spend the money on a decent desk and desk light, which was a way underpriced mother-in-law unit in a brand new house). They were clean, warm in the winter, and conveniently located near medical facilities I was visiting. Not all $40 stays are dumps.
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No but there are definitely people who set the search filters to a range that takes out the low priced ones. I had at least one guest tell me they almost didn’t see my listing for that reason and they were a little skeptical of my low price (at the time $44 for two people and no cleaning fee) but “took a chance” due to my good reviews. LOL. At that time I probably had 300+ five stars so not much of a risk.
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