This Host cheated me, so I'm exposing his Secret..
Summary
In this video, Sean Rakidzich discusses the practice of "catfishing" in short-term rental listings, where hosts misrepresent their properties through misleading or heavily edited photos, and he shares potentially unethical Photoshop techniques to make STR listing photos look better and more appealing, emphasizing the importance of honest representation and image editing best practices, also recommending taking photos from the same camera to ensure consistency when merging images in Photoshop.
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