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real estate welcome to the david green show i'm david green and i'm joined today with jonathan

clark a short-term rental owner who's got a story about an experience he had that was a little rough on him

that we want to share with everybody else uh we're going to be talking about what happened, why it happened, what he did, and where we're at now. So hopefully all of us can avoid falling into the same situation and having the same experience. So Jonathan, thanks for me and when they come on the show, man. I appreciate it. Oh, no. It's my pleasure. And thank you for having me. And I got to tell you, based on my experience, I'm not even sure if it's something we can't avoid.

It was rather disconcerting.

It seemed almost completely random, to be honest.

So I can essentially tell you what happened, which is I've been an Airbnb host now since 2019. I've been slowly

transitioning from my main line of work, which is as a lawyer, to just becoming more and more

of an Airbnb host with these properties as I acquire more. Like many of us, I, you know, I've gotten quite into it.

I enjoy it.

It's in many ways quite fulfilling.

And I've invested a lot of time and effort into it.

So I've been a super host now, I think, for about three years.

So in any case, I actually woke up, as I often do, thinking about my

Airbnb. We're coming into high season here. Bookings have been going pretty well, all that.

And I logged in, and I was unable to. And I had a message that said, we've shut down your account because of, and what it said was

essentially an issue with my reviews. And I had no, like, the way they described it was

as if a review I left for someone else as a host caused some sort of issue. So that was the first

thing that confused me because I don't generally leave negative reviews for guests. I mean,

I probably hosted a thousand people at this, a thousand different groups at this point. And maybe I've left three to five bad reviews when

something's really bad, but mostly I try to just work it out with people directly. Let's pause

for a second there. What you're referring to is that a guest can leave a review on their,

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