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Thank you @wklukas
 

 
His rentmen ad can be found here:
 
https://rentmen.eu/CarlosAndresNYC

I think this was a situation where you had to be there and able to judge not just his words but the way he comported himself and his body language. Were they warm and interactive or cold and detached. Could you hold his gaze into your eyes. Maybe the 3 gin and tonics helped lol. I liked the bio detail of training to be a MMA fighter (whatever that is).

Yourr experience would make a good script for a porn flic.

Why don’t you post it here so we can all judge its appropriateness?

We shouldn't underestimate how hard it is for someone with no guaranteed income to float that extra $100 in deposits per day, especially in these lean times. Many of the people who stay in budget accomodations do not have that kind of flexibility all the time. Add to that the many forms of discrimination that a black person faces everyday. I sympathize with Jarrod here and can only imagine what it's like for folks who are having an even harder time being unhoused or without a guaranteed income during a pandemic.

Jarrod, you’re really not at the disadvantage you think you are here - look at business model comparisons
 
HOTEL: Operating at a loss Thx to COVID
PROVIDER: Same
 
HOTEL: Has federal, state and local regulations to follow, and is subject to unannounced inspections for enforcement, and pay fines for violations. This is calculated into all rack rates along with other expenses.
PROVIDER: Not regulated, with client bearing equal amount of any legal exposure for any violations of law.
 
HOTEL: Uses ads to reassure potential guests that during this contagion, the property’s sanitation practices are thorough and complete with all process documentation and MSDS available for review. May be liable in court for misrepresentation or damages to guests in civil suits.
PROVIDER: Uses profile to reassure potential clients that during this contagion, he is STI-free, and recently tested neg for COVID. No documentation provided. No liability in court for misrepresentation or damages.
 
HOTEL: Able to accommodate advance reservations and walk-ins by having trained housekeeping staff on a rotating schedule, to keep a variety of rooms (and all the common areas) prepared, sanitized and available for use, compatible with advertised check-in and check-out times and other posted hours of operation.
PROVIDER: Able to determine everything about availability and location of appointment. Now, later or not at all; my place, your place my friend’s place, or the Ritz. Client may have own request re time and location which you negotiate, or decline as suits you.
Provider does not require additional staff or communication equipment for douching, showering, gargling, condom-buying, cleaning, etc. in advance preparation.
 
HOTEL: Has been burned by no-shows and skippers, therefore...
Requires refundable deposit to cover costs for preparation of room to higher standards right now, rather than raise rack rate. (If you so much as sit on the bed for 10 seconds and decide you want another room, they’ll get you the new room AND will also have to document all the steps taken for re-cleaning of room you were in for a minute). Deposit refunded at checkout, and it is recorded that it was, in fact, refunded, not just adjustment to bill, and hotel can be liable for any emotional damage to client in the process of settling the refund.
PROVIDER: Has been burned by no-shows and skippers (no tip...) therefore...
Requires refundable(?) deposit to cover costs of preparation. For most providers, that usually involves nothing more than would be done as enhanced grooming prior to hook up with a FB. Deposit may offset losses from scheduling around a no-show. No documentation. Deposit may also soothe any hurt feelings from rejection (“sorry but you’re not the guy in the photos, so just keep the deposit, but expect an unflattering review”) Provider can refund as much or as little of deposit as desired, regardless of pre-agreement, as no client will ever bring a suit to court.
 
HOTEL: Has to maintain entire property to current safety and OSHA standards and prove all insurance is always updated in order to advertise as a hotel, and do business.
PROVIDER: Has a gym membership. Might move soiled laundry from floor Into hamper.
 
You get what I’m saying. Your business model really can’t be compared to that of a commercial establishment. Keep it in proportion. You have a low-overhead business with great flexibility about how you manage it.
 
To speak to your big dilemma, YES!! if you’re going to book a hotel room, whether for work or leisure, you SHOULD plan on the extra hundred or so up front, and use a card or cards that will cover the TOTAL amount it takes to reserve the room.
 
Deposit policies exist, like most laws and regs, because of a few selfish schmucks who took advantage in the past and have ruined it for others forever.. It’s a cost of doing business, my friend. No need to take it as a personal rebuke. Maybe you work locally for now, or in a city where you only take outcalls and crash on a friends couch, if liquidity is a major issue.
 
And for Karma’s sake please leave a generous tip for the housekeeper anytime you stay.

Keep in mind, that right now EVERY room has to be thoroughly taken apart, cleaned and sanitized before a guest checks in, regardless of whether the prior guest spent 5 minutes or 5 days in the space. The property has to have enough commitment of guests actually showing in order to schedule the staff. Providing a clean and safe environment for guests is essential, and that adds man-hours to each housekeeping shift.
Look at you, being a good pay-it-forward consumer and citizen!! Just by floating a deposit that covers the cost of turning a room, you are actually creating jobs and/or boosting OT for some minimum wage workers who can really use the money. You get your money back, and some housekeeper gets to both pay her rent AND feed her kids. Sounds win/win to me!!

One way to avoid that sort of situation is to book the room for two people. That way, if you are checking in or out together, that issue will not happen.
 
Until this awful pandemic arrived, I traveled often and used various hotels. Even though I usually traveled alone, I always booked the room for two occupants. You never know if an occasion will occur when a second person happens along.
 
There is no extra charge for two people sharing the same room. If you happen to select a room that includes breakfast, the second person is given breakfast. That is another advantage of booking a room showing two people.
 
Just something to consider.

I would love to tip, but I scrape up all the money I can just to hire. All I can afford to do is tell him what a good time I had and that we had to get together again in the near future. Before he walks out the door I hand him an envelop full of money (his fee), give him a big hug and kiss, and tell him to be safe. That's it.

I found myself in a weird situation on a trip with two male gay friends who were brothers a couple of decades ago. We took a side trip from Prague, where we had been for 5 days, to Warsaw for a weekend which we had planned before leaving home. When we arrived at the airport in Warsaw on the Saturday at around 11am, they would not let me pass immigration because I did not have the necessary visa. My two friends didn’t need one because they were Americans. I did because I was Canadian. When we had bought the airline tickets in Montreal at the airline office downtown, they had checked our three passports but assumed we were all Americans because mine was on the bottom and they all looked alike. So what to do? The flight back to Prague was late Sunday afternoon and there was no sooner flight. I was told I could stay in the customs control area of the airport and sleep on a bench. There were no restaurants in the restricted area. The closest city I could fly to was Paris because there were no flights to closer cities such as Berlin. So I bought a ticket and flew to Paris, a two hour flight but a different time zone. I arrived around 6pm and went to the Marais district, which I knew well. I looked into getting a hotel room but there were none available during this high tourist season in the three or four hotels I checked out. I gave up that idea and decided I would stay at a gay sauna for the night, but only check in after dinner and an evening at the bars, which were very active. At the back of my mind I was hoping I might meet someone to go home with but no such luck. So I ended up at the baths around 1am. After getting a room and checking out the place I discovered there were no hot guys at all, and it wasn’t very busy. The few who checked me out I wouldn’t go with if I was on a desert isle. So I tried to go to sleep but was awoken several times by someone trying to come in my room. After a fitful night of trying to sleep I decided to check out around 5am. The bus back to the airport was leaving around 8am so I had a few hours to kill. I just started off walking and found a bakery shop open with fresh croissants so had a couple for my breakfast. You.re probably asking yourself at this point, where’s the sex? So this is when it happened. Walking down a side street around 6:30 I saw a hunky guy walking in my direction. As our paths crossed we exchanged glances, which is all we needed to establish we were both horny. Without exchanging so much as a bonjour, we found a little alleyway just off the street and pulled down our flies. We gave each other blowjobs but I forget now who went first. His cum was delicious, just what I needed to complement the warm croissants in my belly. It was a very uneventful flight back to Warsaw where I met my friends to return to Prague.

I’m shocked shocked to learn this. LOL You have great taste however in butts.

I was visiting a friend who lived around 5 hours from me. As we were talking she just blurted out "Are you gay?" Knowing that she was pretty open minded, I said "Yes". As I tried to explain my situation to her I came right out and told her I hired escorts, and we talked about it. Recently, one of my best friends from high school came out and even has a partner. I came out to him and plan to soon tell him my history, including my experiences with escorts. I guess I wouldn't shout it from the mountain tops, but with people I'm close to I don't think I'd have any problem discussing my escorts with them. I have nothing to be ashamed of and I think escorts provide a valuable service for people like me. I'm so glad we have these guys. They've certainly made my life much more interesting.......and FUN!

I have only shared this with gay friends who also hire. It is sort of like a fraternity, where we don;t judge each other, except perhaps for the choices we make. Of course some of my friends are tops so we don’t use the same criteria anyway. And beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. One time I took a trip to New York with a friend who was also a bottom, and we arranged dates before we left Montreal. He told me before leaving he had made a date with an escort I had my eyes on also on Rentboy but he beat me to the punch. I ended up with choosing another guy, who became someone I so liked that we had numerous dates over the next 3 years, both in NYC and Miami. A case of noblesse oblige, I suppose, which turned out really well.

I was a virgin at 22 and went on a straight cruise with a gay friend hoping for a love connection. It didn’t happen between us that trip (or ever). However, he did convince me that a slot machine attendant had been eyeing me all week, which I thought was some cruel joke. I didn’t believe it but I struck up a conversation with the attendant anyway.
 
Hours later he had me face down on my bed massaging my body. He said “I’m going to teach you something that you’ll share with every lover for the rest of your life.” And he did. And I have.
 
14 years have passed and I’ve used that trick on over 100 men.

You seem to make the assumption that people using pics in their avatar are actually them just because you decided to use your real pic. Just because you do it, don’t think others will. There is also people on the web who claim they are the people in the picture and are not. There is no way to verify unless you meet them. This has been a particular issue discussed multiple times on the forum about hiring providers.
 
Some use pics or illustrations because they just like the pic and it may or may not be representational of themselves. I’m assuming a lot of people won’t use face pics of themselves because they want to maintain anonymity... either out of fear of being discovered by friends, family, or a colleague. Others just because they just don’t want to. I do realize some forum members use their actual body parts (other than their face) and a lot of the escorts, who use this forum as more than a way to express themselves, show their faces or at least their bodies.
 
Besides this forum, I’m not on social media. There aren’t many pics of me online that I know of. As much as I like posting here, if I were to put my pic out on the web purposely, the forum would be the last place I’d post it.

If you're paying him what he asked for you're not underpaying him! Don't off-set the market guys!
Americans also tend to do this when traveling abroad in everything from escorts to AirBnB's and it pisses off the locals a whole bunch! This foments a two-tier pay rate! One for US and one for them for the exact same services! All things are relative to the local and present day economy, not what you can personally afford . I remember HooBoy (may he RIP) used to travel a lot and made this very point when Americans started following him to Brazil!

Saw him last summer. He has aged but his dick is still huge and thick and hard and he aims to please. He fucked the shit out of me if I remember correctly. He is a bit more hairy than I expected (like on his back) but otherwise a big turnon for me. I saw him outcall when he visited outside of NYC so can’t say what an incall visit would be like.

He started out in Chicago YEARS ago as a dancer at the now defunct Madrigal's. He was REALLY hot and handsome back then and knew it. In those days, you and the "dancer" would agree on a set amount and the owner of the club would let you use his apartment upstairs for a certain amount of time. I never did that as probably was too cheap and scared at the time (f*ck my younger self!). Theo was quite the self promoter regarding that.
 
Now this guy "GQ" back then, shit, I shoulda. . .

I have only shared this with gay friends who also hire. It is sort of like a fraternity, where we don;t judge each other, except perhaps for the choices we make. Of course some of my friends are tops so we don’t use the same criteria anyway. And beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. One time I took a trip to New York with a friend who was also a bottom, and we arranged dates before we left Montreal. He told me before leaving he had made a date with an escort I had my eyes on also on Rentboy but he beat me to the punch. I ended up with choosing another guy, who became someone I so liked that we had numerous dates over the next 3 years, both in NYC and Miami. A case of noblesse oblige, I suppose, which turned out really well.

I have tended to shy away from hiring guys with heavy tattoos, the kind that would show even when in street clothes. It would inhibit my taking them to fancy hotels or restaurants (not that that is in prospect any time soon), Since I have a pretty conventional appearance for an older gentleman, a husky tattooed companion by my side would make me pretty uncomfortable. I‘m not the type who wants people staring at me. I certainly don’t have the makings of a celebrity who adores the limelight.

But hold the mustard. I hear it causes bum rash!

I could even supply my own buns. 2 of em?

I thought the hotdog pic was very witty. Who could resist a hot cock served up on a bun!?

I could even supply my own buns. 2 of em?

I thought the hotdog pic was very witty. Who could resist a hot cock served up on a bun!?