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Hi everyone,
Iā€™m about to complete my first year on HomeExchange and have already done more than 40 exchanges.

I wanted to raise a question and hear your thoughts about GuestPoints for rooms. Itā€™s becoming increasingly common to see rooms valued at the same number of GP as an entire home. Personally, I find this disproportionate and even a bit excessive.

What do you think? Thanks!

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I must admit that I havenā€™t come across this myself. You can report such listings using the report option ( 3 dots onbtop of profile page) and member service will look into it.

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I had cases when the home was way more expensive (in terms of GP) and I were asking to lower the GP price. Sometimes it worked, sometimes - no. Also I guess it is okay to negotiate GP price if youā€™re renting long term (> 7 days). It was also a case when I were asking for a room and the price was for entire home but I managed to find entire home for the same price.

I think it is always good to speak with owners - this is a great community of people and in many cases it is easy to find a solution by just talking.

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Please avoid talking with rental words. Itā€™s not ā€œrentingā€, ā€œpricesā€ etc. Itā€™s exchanges and gp value for example. Please be careful cause authorities are already confusing it sometimes so we Ask for members to use the good words. Thanks

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Welcome on thƩ forum Diana_81,

40 exchanges in 1 year, itā€™s huge!
How did you manage?

Numbers of GPs are sometimes strange.
Iā€™ve seen private rooms with ratings as high as those for entire apartments.
I never contact these listings.

I think they may be suitable for people wishing to exchange homes with a high level of interactions with the host such as single travellers.

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Welcome to the forum Diana! 40 exchanges in your first year is outstanding - what an achievement. You can report a home if you think the level of GuestPoints is too high, but there has to be a specific reason such as they are saying there are 3 bedrooms available when there is infact just one. Usually if a member thinks the points for an exchange are too high for them, they will just move onto another.