How to Screen Guests and Maintain a Safe Vacation Rental Community
Hyatus takes many steps to make sure that we are keeping our neighbors and residential communities safe. One of the most important steps in this process is a guest screen tool.
Guest Screening
When a guest books your furnished apartment or vacation rental through an online booking platform such as Airbnb, it may seem like there’s no great way to learn much about a future resident of your furnished rental. However, there are fantastic, cheap services that keep extensive guest data as well as offer background checks.
Our Recommended Solution: autohost
One of the largest companies to offer screening services is autohost. Autohost searches through millions of rows of data and combines this with unique parameters from each reservation to flag potential risks and assign every guest a risk score. This score enables you to then manually review guests that appear risky and decide next steps, including further screening questions, an interview, or if necessary, even cancelling their stay.
Some highlights of their offerings are:
- Validating guest locations (local guests who book last minute are more likely to party)
- Thorough background checks, including checking the US National Criminal Record Check, International Criminal Record Check, Sex Offenders Registries and much more.
- ID verification
- Risky IPs or rerouted IPs
Conclusion
During the age of coronavirus, fewer travelers can sometimes mean a greater percentage of potential guests are booking for other reasons (namely to party). A good guest screening tool is more important than ever to help make sure that the group of 30 Yale fraternity brothers looking for a place to stay during spring break don’t choose your luxury New Haven apartment as their next place to throw a “rager.”
