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Never rent from strict-policy hosts and your cancellation rate will never be ridiculous. I'm a flexible-policy host.

Fun fact - because you are associated to the shitty hosts via AirBnB, you get the some of that tar drops.

I'm a consumer and I don't give a hoot about what kind of "policies" AirBnB offers. I've had hosts cancel a week beforehand, without explanation. Thankfully they paid me back, but rebooking was triple the price.

That's literally the reason why I will only book at chains, that can upgrade or shuffle me around their networks at worst.

Yeah, I always tell people to beware of hosts who cancel on their guests. You can easily see if they do, by looking at the reviews. Whenever a host cancels on a guest an automated review is posted that says "This host canceled a reservation X days before the stay." If I see that, I move on to a better host.

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