'Given that my wife would only have that one review this has more of a damaging effect on her ability to use the service in the future than it does on the host

'Given that my wife would only have that one review this has more of a damaging effect on her ability to use the service in the future than it does on the host with dozens of "fabulous/great place!"' I have had to trash an established account with 16 great profile reviews because an agent acting for a host left a vindictive review for me. Creating a new account takes a few minutes and I found no downside to getting places without any review history. AirBnB isn't Facebook, people don't think it's funny that you don't have an established account. Conversely, it doesn't work the other way around as I would be wary of booking a place with zero reviews and, I expect, most other people think the same? Oddly though, the only place I have stayed with zero reviews (limited number of options at the time) turned out to be the best place so far?