Topic: Does anyone have any successful strategies for busting AirBNBs

Does anyone have any successful strategies for busting AirBNBs outside of just checking listings and trying to match the photos? Have any companies actually tried booking the listings to do a clean bust? Would love any and all input!

I wish you the best of luck! What market are you?

Diana Walker Thank you! Southern California (Orange County).

The city requires licensing. If i find them i just turn them over. They will go knock on their door and put a stop to it.

You can search on a map on AirBnB. That’s how I did it when I was onsite. Just zoom in on where property is and it will show you any listings. If they didn’t have it listed in their name (most of the time they did), usually the patio/balcony photos would help determine the unit because I could figure out where they were on the property. You may have to play around with the search filters and also select “I’m flexible” when selecting your date

Lol book it and then call your resident, "hi it's the property manager and I'm having trouble checking in. Can you meet me in the leasing office?". Whoops ?

Check out a company called property guard. We use them to scour the sites and they can compare against your rent roll etc to help identify the hosts.

Rebecca Slater Thank you! Are they able to get past the fake host names on the AirBNB listings? Of the dozen or so AirBNBs I've busted in the last year, zero had a host name that matched the leaseholder.

Alex Mann sometimes. They will also run names in the reviews of the host to see if they can find a match.