Tony Russell 
Booking travel online is clearly popular, over $750 billion dollars was spent doing so in 2019 alone. But booking travel online should also be simple, however, start the process yourself and you may quickly find the task overwhelming. Worst of all it can be hard to tell if you really are getting a great deal. … Read more
Guests love thoughtful details. When you stay in a hotel and there are chocolates beside the bed, doesn’t that make you feel good (appreciated)? Yes of course. In this post, I’ve got 40 ideas for you to really make your short term rental shine which is really very inexpensive. And of course, the more you … Read more
There are a ton of really compelling reasons for your short rental property to have its own website. Most important of all, it’s your ‘internet business card’ and gives people a way to contact you directly for those lucrative direct bookings. But there are many other compelling reasons too. Let’s check each one out: 1. … Read more
This article covers 10 different ways to promote your listing on Airbnb that will result in more customers paying higher prices and staying for longer. This is an in-depth article of all of the things that most Airbnb hosts don’t do. They’re leaving money on the table. If you do these things, I would bet … Read more
Many people don’t realize that you have many options as to how to charge your guests for their stay with your short-term rental. It’s true that with some platforms you only have one option, but generally, this just refers to Airbnb. This article is all about the different ways that you can charge guests and … Read more
This article is all about what the lockdown and coronavirus have taught us about how we should be running a short-term rental business. Firstly let me preface this by saying that I take coronavirus as we all should take coronavirus extremely seriously, and nothing in one what I say in this article should negate the … Read more
The bedroom is one of the most important parts of your Airbnb listing, of course. In this post, I’ve selected some of my favorite ideas for putting an awesome Airbnb sleep zone together. Don’t forget that one of the ways that you can make your Airbnb or short-term rental really unique is to be creative … Read more
When I revamped my Airbnb I thought for a long time about how to improve my listing amenities., and this article is a result of what I did. Exceeding expectations for your Airbnb Guests is one of the easiest ways to get fantastic reviews. The first time I stayed in the Peninsula Hotel in Bangkok, … Read more
As you can imagine, I’m a member of most of the Facebook Airbnb, and short-term rental groups, and if there’s one subject that comes up time and time again, it’s Airbnb reviews specifically bad ones. Let me just shoot from the hip for a minute: Bad reviews, are not bad. They are a fact of … Read more
Whether you’re letting your property on Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia or any other website, a great (not good) house manual does more than serve your guests, it also helps solve problems for you too. This article explains how you can write a house manual, why you should give people different choices, and how you can make … Read more
If you do your homework first, you speak to your guests, they have good reviews, and you trust your instincts then you’ve got nothing to worry about (probably), and you’ll find 99% of your guests are problem-free. But is that assurance from me enough? Probably not. So instead I’ve brainstormed the ultimate checklist for to … Read more
Longer bookings are surely what anyone running a short term rental business wants? It’s almost the best of both worlds: The benefits of renting long term, with the income of a short term rental. But how to achieve this? I have 6 tips for you here with some ideas that you may not have thought … Read more
I’ve been running Airbnbs now for 5 years. I’ve had a lot of success but also a number of challenges along the way. This post is designed for someone who is thinking of buying a property for renting on Airbnb with all of the things I wish I’d known before I started! Key points to … Read more
How to get more bookings on Airbnb is probably the number one question on the host’s mind! But nobody has a sure way to do it. Even though there are more than enough blogs and websites promoting their tips and solutions, they often contradict each other. There’s no sure way to know which one is … Read more
I started my short term rental business on Airbnb as many people do, listing it as “Apartment in Grade II listed building”. And that did OK, but when I realized just how small Airbnb’s slice of the market is (see this post) and how much more I could do if I added channels like booking.com … Read more
If you want to increase your ranking on Airbnb, then stop doing all of the things that don’t add any value to your listing, and spend 90% of your time on things that do. Specifically: Have a Title That really Pops – be creative Focus on cleanliness. This is the one thing that guests really … Read more
A little over ten years ago now, the Airbnb story began In San Francisco, 2008. Three college students, down on their luck and in rent arrears, plotted, schemed, and grafted away night-after-night in an effort to avoid having their rental lease terminated and keep themselves off the streets. The result of all of this hard … Read more
The simple answer to the question is yes, it is possible to make money with Airbnb. Today there are more than 650,000 hosts around the world and more than 6 million listings. The amount of money you can earn however is not fixed and it is highly dependent on your property and on the overall … Read more
Running an Airbnb let, especially if there’s more than one, can get tedious if you’re not on top of the basic products you need. This article is a simple list of the basic things you need to run your property. They are all non-perishable, so there is every reason to keep a large stock of … Read more
The security of your Airbnb is paramount. You will have so many different guests staying, and even if you check and vet guests to the highest possible standard, you never really know who they are, so taking as much care of the security of your property is extremely important. This is what I do: 1. … Read more
Airbnb hosting isn’t for everyone. Many people think they’ll be able to run an Airbnb business and then struggle. In this article, we examine the common mistakes Airbnb hosts make when they starting out (and when they’ve been doing it for a while) and offer solutions to each problem. 1. Not trying out Airbnb yourself … Read more
Having a Facebook page can give outstanding exposure to your Airbnb rental if used right. For example, my guests log on to our wifi either by signing up with Facebook (and like our page) or by supplying their email address and password. In truth, there are a ton of ways you can use Facebook (along … Read more
When you have bookings at your Airbnb or booking.com property you must leave a review for everyone who stays. But what’s the right way to do this? How do you handle negative reviews? In this article, we show you how to respond to Airbnb reviews the right way. Let’s look at the short answer first: … Read more
This is the question I hear everyone asking. “How do I get more bookings on Airbnb”. This article isn’t going to address how to write a great Airbnb profile, that’s covered elsewhere, we’re going to look at expanding your horizons, and then looking at some actionable tips. But really simply, if you want more bookings … Read more
Making your Airbnb let wheelchair friendly isn’t just something to do because it might get you more bookings, or might get you ranked higher in the search algorithm. It’s something you should do because it’s a good thing to do, and why on earth shouldn’t people in a wheelchair have access to Airbnb properties? Think … Read more
