Years ago, I moved into an apartment and got my hard-line phone hooked up. Turns out my new phone number was formerly a job hotline number for a local school district. I worked nights, and was on-call during the day, so for weeks I got calls, sometimes several a day, from people wanting jobs with the district.

I phoned the district, explained my predicament, and asked that they publish their new number. That didn’t happen. The calls continued. This cycle repeated several times. In the interim I had changed my voicemail message to reflect that this wasn’t the job line…but the calls kept coming.

So I started answering all of my calls with “XXXXXXXXXX School District Job Line. How can I help you?” with as chipper a tone as I could muster, jerked as I was from a sound slumber. I would listen to the caller’s pitch, then, still in my district employee persona, would become, shall we say, far more abrupt in my language toward them. To say I was discourteous was an exercise in gross understatement; I was brutally vulgar. I would conclude each call with something along the lines of, “Thanks for calling XXXXXXXXX School District but, like I said earlier, please go —- yourself in the —- with a hammer, you illiterate sack of —–. Enjoy your day.”

I didn’t have to pull this routine too many times before the calls magically stopped coming. Pity. I was starting to enjoy it.

The takeaway? Your house is on AirBnB, you let every inquiry that comes in know exactly what AirBnB thinks of them and their vacation plans. Be creative…have fun with it. AirBnB doesn’t care what you have to say, but they may care far more when their “representative” starts generating complaints to their offices.

Bill,
if you enter practically ANY address in google, in 90% cases you will find old ads of the house when it had been for sale: inside / outside.

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Get your local press involved.

Sometimes enough public pressure will compel Airbnb to take action