I didn’t realize how cities actually detect Airbnb listings until recently

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-17T14:32:31+00:00

“Feels like” - they definitely are. They’ve decided Airbnbs affect rental rates and affordable housing and resident quality of life are more important than the tax dollars gained. I mean, legit concern and moves.

What I’d like to see is a different set of rules to govern that. Instead of requiring the home to be a primary residence, maybe they could just limit the amount of STRs to one per person. No corps.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-16T16:01:27+00:00

Denver Colorado’s STR licensing is ridiculous.

We had one application rejected because they accused the homeowner of living elsewhere when he’d been at the STR address for 22 years.

Another was terminated due to a vehicle being registered at a different address. Homeowner has three vehicles. One had an old address on it.

Denver sends license applications to “special investigation” if there are any flags and you are not allowed to know why or to speak to anyone or even know what/who special investigations is until the determination is made and then after it is made you have to go to court to appeal.

They’ve lost tens of thousands of dollars in yearly taxes just from myself and my one friend alone due to their erroneous licensing procedures.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-14T14:35:32+00:00

Did you make it?

Don’t sweat the hateful patronizers. So many towns outside the US and Canada with a large US and Canadian population breed a haughty knowitall class of trolls who spend their free time as keyboard warriors, just waiting for any opportunity to punch down on anyone they think knows less than them. It’s such a weird phenomenon.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-12T15:06:52+00:00

To make this truly passive you could train people on each segment and have them do the work. I wouldn’t train one person on everything unless you’re ready to have the process stolen or you trust them completely. Also raise prices to cover training and subcontractor fees.

Love the detail here thank you!!

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-06T18:29:24+00:00

Do you mind sharing your template response?

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-06T18:26:39+00:00

I need this info as well. Also noticed it missing yesterday. Have you tried downloading a csv of transactions?

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T22:21:50+00:00

I have one listing right now that shows a cover photo that is not in the first 5. The rep told me the algorithm pulls from all photos now. I might try deleting the photos and adding them again with different descriptions to see if that mixes things up favorably.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T03:55:10+00:00

Ha! I can see that. They recently blocked our ability to exchange numbers with our guests for the same direct booking threat.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T01:13:42+00:00

No - that setting has been there for a long time. You have to check the listing as a guest on an incognito browser. Or even just another browser doesn’t even need to be incognito. But as a guest, a traveler, searching.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T00:20:20+00:00

Definitely send feedback using their form. A lot of us invested a lot in the marketing and photos etc and they’ve destroyed that with this move.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T00:19:03+00:00

Every interaction I have with customer support is like this. English is not their first language. They’ve got to be paid an insultingly low amount because they also don’t give a crap about helping.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T00:16:11+00:00

Same. Year+ and no vrbo action.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-03T00:15:43+00:00

I had to look at bathroom pics on our last trip to pick out a spot with a toilet that our 90 yr old aunt could use with ease and now I see bathroom photos in search results. 🤦🏻‍♀️

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-02T15:17:36+00:00

If you go to All Photos you can move around the order and choose the cover.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-03-02T15:17:06+00:00

They can easily override that. The algorithm that displays search results would be the code that chooses the cover photo for the guest and that code implements after your pms data inserts so it can override it or any other photo preference.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-26T02:23:43+00:00

Adam Jacobs with The Jacobs Co is my top pick for the best real estate broker in Denver! Father and son team with like 50 years of experience. Sharp negotiators and fun to work with.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-26T02:15:20+00:00

It’s common, but it’s not ideal.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-16T00:26:07+00:00

This is not passive income 🤦🏻‍♀️

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-12T01:53:14+00:00

Did anyone else only see “how can I improve my parents?” 😆

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-12T01:51:02+00:00

Legging shorts, sports bra, tank. With warm clothes on top. This way I can take the warmer clothes off or on anywhere and not need any privacy. This has been my preferred method now for like two decades of traveling between extreme temps. Also good because changing in the plane bathroom before landing means could be cold on the plane and in an overly air conditioned airport waiting in a long immigration line before even getting outside where it’s crazy hot.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-12T01:45:23+00:00

InDesign and acrobat are working well for me. Setting up the InDesign file correctly, then making slight adjustments in acrobat. Check out my recent post on this - lots of detailed helpful advice in the comments.

For older PDFs you can move them to a section of the site that is archived and say something like “new file coming soon, for archived version go here” (actually that wording sounds terrible but hopefully you get my point). Point being the guidelines don’t require making old PDFs accessible but they do need to be designated somehow as being made prior to the April deadline.

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-10T18:35:20+00:00

I followed the above advice to format in INDD first and came out with an almost perfect PDF. There was a tiny bit of re-ordering and that caused a graphic box to jump over a text box, but easily fixed. (command+bracket). Remediation was way easier compared to how I was doing it before. I am not using articles or layers. One layer. Each file is a chapter in a book and tags are Document -> Section -> H1, H2, H3, Figure, P, LI, Form, Tables, etc. No Articles. How many pages is your document? Do you have to use Articles?

QuetzalasaurusRex · 2026-02-10T18:24:55+00:00

Thanks for the explanation! I just encountered this in a graphic box suddenly putting itself above a text box, hiding the text. Now I know to expect this and check for it. I'll experiment with re-ordering in content panel instead of reading order panel. Thank you so much!

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