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Security deposit/ damage

Greg Strunak
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Bp friends, we recently just had our first bad guest. Long story short they brought dogs(against our house rules) the dogs damaged the furniture. They also smoked weed in the house stinking the whole house up badly and stained a brand new bedsheet, trespassed on our neighbors property making them very upset. Any tips on dealing with these issues. Also we are thinking about implementing a security deposit, does anybody do this. 

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Wilson Vanhook
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Wilson Vanhook
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Charge the guest using Airbnb's Host Damage Protection. Moving forward, a better alternative than hassling yourself and your guests with damage deposits is to just purchase damage insurance through a company called Safely for each booking. I pay them $15 per reservation to give me $1500 of content coverages on each booking which covers most incidentals. When people cause damages that aren't accidental though such as smoking weed in the property, I still charge the guests and hold them accountable for breaking the house rules.

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