Seema Garoutte
45:43 - 45:49
“those bookings on RentalScape really aren't bookings.”
- Speaker
- Seema Garoutte
- Timestamp
- 45:43 – 45:49
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
I have no idea, but all those are actual bookings. So I— that's where we have found the difference in some outdated information from RentalScape. So we would say when somebody came in and maybe made an appeal that we sent them a business personal property in there saying, no, I haven't had this account, and we go on to RentalScape and say, hey, here, it looks like you were booked these 3 weeks. And it doesn't matter to me if you've booked at all, the fact that you're open, but they'll go and they'll pull up their information from Airbnb or VRBO and it'll show that they opened it January 1st and closed it January 5th. And those bookings on RentalScape really aren't bookings.
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