Guest Screening Guide
Master your guest screening skills and learn about all nitty-gritties of the screening process in our guide.
What is Guest Screening?
Are you letting in the right guests? We’ve created a Guest Screening Guide to empower you with knowledge and top-notch tips on the guest screening process.
Inside you’ll find:
- How to screen your guests manually.
- What tools should you use to screen your guests automatically?
- What’s the difference between guest screening and guest verification (aka ID verification)?
- And more…
Who needs to screen their guests?
As a rule of thumb, every property manager should screen their guests. However, it is especially important to do it for…
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Property managers who lease during specific dates
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Property managers who lease in risky environments
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Property managers who lease luxury listings
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| Party-prone dates, such as New Year or the Super Bowl weekend, are very lucrative but risky periods.
1 in 4 noise issues in February 2024 occurred during Super Bowl weekend, and these could negatively affect neighbor relations. |
Markets with high risk of fraud or very high competition benefit from guest screening.
Property managers should also check whether their market requires guest screening by law. |
Not only are luxury listings more attractive to party organizers, but the cost of damages tends to be much higher in these properties as well.
Screening your guests can help protect your property from party hosts and encourage guest accountability. |
The Manual Guest Screening Process
Manual guest screening processes tend to be more time-consuming and require more effort from property managers. However, they also allow for a more personal understanding of your guests.
In order to screen guests manually, property managers should check:
- Basic information such as their name and date of birth. It is important that this data matches the one used on their booking. You can check for this by asking your guests for a copy of their passports in order to confirm their reservation.
- Their address. Asking for proof of address can help property managers weed out guests who may book a property near their place of residence in order to throw a party without trashing their own house.
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