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Vacation rental demand at the Jersey Shore is rising for summer 2025 () , with bookings up 4.1% compared to last year, according to AirDNA. However, travelers are waiting longer...
...expectations shaping the market. From policy changes and community pushback to booking trends and rebranding efforts, here's a look at the major developments making headlines this week.
As of April 21, 2025, Airbnb has implemented a global update to display the total price of listings, (
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...POC Form so that the phone number field is left blank *AND* is a required field, so that hosts can continue to reliably collect guests' real phone numbers.
The Background
As of September 30, 2025, Airbnb is transitioning to issuing temporary phone numbers () for guests that are created at the time of booking and expire 2 days after booking.
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...experience.
"Horrible experience! Wasted a lot of time and resources and ended up having to drop them...they way over promised and have ALOT of bugs and integrations to work out." Dylan S. (April 2023) ()
Looks good but doesn't deliver what they promise, nothing works as it suppose to work. Internal Server Error will become the...
...o then say that they are going to charge you 1% for every channel booking you take 'at no cost to you as you can just pass on the cost to your customer' was completely unacceptable." Andrew C. (June 2020) ()
"Almost impossible to operate easily. Not intuitive to use. What you think the system should do it doesn't, and what you th...
Currently, we have a 2 day minimum before arrival for all of our guests. We need that window to prepare our properties and we don't take last minute bookings. However, our owners can book themselves on the owner portal and come pretty much anytime. Even the same day, which is nearly impossible during our busy seasons. I'd like to able to have the same 2 day minimum for the owner blocks.
Chris
...both and can share their experience .
EDIT:
I'm new here so I'm discovering things.
+1 for OR: Using Tag automations. This appears like it will come in really handy.
EDIT 2:
I've had some time to play around with Ownerrez and here are my takeaways.
Hostaway has a clean and modern feel to it, and a decent amount of customization but it pretty much ends ther...
Hi. We have 3 people interested in renting one of our properties. They want to know if they each can pay individually for their rental? 3 ladies all wanting their credit card perks for a 2-month rental.
Lady 1 pays 33.3% using her credit card
Lady 2 pays 33.3% using her credit card
Lady 3 pays 33.3% using her credit card
...nb, vrbo, and direct
I have worked around this but the result is multiple discount definitions that often do the same thing.
To make this task easier I know I would benefit from the following 2 upgrades to defining discounts.
#1 ability to export, make modifications to exported data, and import new discount information back in
#2 ability to have discounts remain dormaint (ACTIVE FLA...
...the Owner Portal but functionality is a bit limited. All I really need is:
1. Ability to upload files (Statements, reports, management agreements, certification of insurance, etc)
2. Ability to link to other things... For example, I'd like to add a button that links to a Jotform to collect bank details from owners
Part two would be including links to the listings, so owners...
...e):
Description
Rate
Amount
Lodging
$780
$780
Cleaning Fee - Cowboy Cabin based on $65.00 per stay
$65
$65
Pet Fee for 1 pet based on $25.00 per night per pet
$75
$75
Colorado Sales Tax 2.9%
$26.68
Cortez Lodging Tax 2%
$18.40
Montezuma County Tax 0.4%
$3.68
The lodgi...
...bookings. How It Works
Strategy #1: Create separate listings for smaller versions of your property
Let's say someone manages a large five-bedroom vacation home with a nightly rate of $499 and a $250 cleaning fee. Homes like this tend to book further in advance because they cater to larger groups that typically need more time to coordinate a trip. As the check-in date approaches, the chances of...
...everything up I'm sure it won't be long. I probably wouldn't have made the switch if I'd known what I know now.
1)The unified inbox isn't truly unified. Texts and emails are still separated.
2) Zero customization of the list view columns, and a scroll bar at the bottom of all places. Their doesn't seem to be any interest in fixing this surprisingly.
3) Way too much navigation is requir...
...e unified inbox isn't truly unified. Texts and emails are still separated. - correct, OR is not an email app; maybe they can in the future? However, channel messages, texts are all in the inbox
2) Zero customization of the list view columns, and a scroll bar at the bottom of all places. Their doesn't seem to be any interest in fixing this surprisingly. - not sure what you mean - which columns...
