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Overview
When a request for crew accommodation gets no reply, the person who wrote it usually assumes the price was wrong. It is rarely that. Far more often the host read the request, could not tell whether their property would work for the crew, and moved on rather than ask six follow-up questions. A request that answers those questions up front is the biggest single change you can make to how many offers you receive, how quickly they arrive and how close they land to what you wanted to pay.
Why "sleeps 8" is the wrong number
In the holiday-let world, "sleeps 8" typically means two double rooms, a twin room and a sofa bed in the lounge, which is fine for two families and useless for eight adults who have never met. The same phrase on a request form tells the host nothing about whether their property fits.
What a host needs is the number of people and the number of separate beds, and whether those beds can be in shared rooms. "Eight adults, eight single beds, twin rooms acceptable, no sofa beds" can be priced in thirty seconds. "Sleeps 8" cannot. If two of the crew are happy to share a double, say so, because it widens the pool of properties considerably. If a supervisor needs their own room, say that too.