Airbnb starts paying 50% at booking for 1%. Are you signing up?

[Kevin Lefeuvre]

As you know, until now, airbnb would payout once the guests have checked in (Day D+1). 

Now they give you the option to receive half of the payout, at booking time (or Booking Day+3 exactly), but would charge another 1% fee for that.

Do you sign up?  Thoughts?

[Julie McCoy]

I won't.  It makes my bookkeeping confusing and puts me on the hook for refunds that get pulled from my account when guests cancel.  I don't want money to touch my account until I know it's staying.  Further, my bookings tend to go in fits and starts; I don't want a couple of months with huge amounts of income and a couple with very little, I want it more evenly distributed.  (VRBO defaults to paying out when guests book; I called them and asked them to change it to when guests check in, for all the above reasons)