How to get longer-term bookings for your short-term rental.

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I have been a short-term rental/Airbnb host for about eight years. When covid hit, I thought my business would be toast, as the cancellations rolled in thick and fast. Actually, it was one of the best things to have happened, because I started getting long-term bookings (3 months+). So how did I achieve this (all … Read more

How to price your Airbnb

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The short answer of how to price your Airbnb effectively is to examine the competition and price yourself in the mid-range to start with and as you get more reviews, to gradually increase your price. The one additional comment I would make is that there is a definite relationship between the quality of your photographs … Read more

Best Airbnb Locations (updated 2022)

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Location, Location, Location As the saying from the renowned hotelier  Conrad Hilton goes to be successful in property it’s all about “Location, Location, Location.” In this article I want to give you a short but thorough understanding of, in my opinion, good locations to run Airbnb or short-term rentals and also bad locations. As the … Read more

21 Things You Can Do Cheaply To Make Your Airbnb Shine

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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

10 ways to market your Airbnb (that are guaranteed to work in 2022)

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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

Check out all your options to bill short rental guests

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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

10 Tips for Promoting your Airbnb Listing on Facebook (that work).

Promoting your Airbnb Listing on Facebook

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

How to get more bookings for your short-term rental!

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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

How To Save Money On Your Airbnb Listing In The Winter

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After my first winter running my Airbnb apartments I realized that saving money on your heating bills was extremely important to stay profitable because (unless you’re in Australia!) in most places in the world, it gets cold. Really cold. The last thing you want is for your utility bills to suddenly go through the roof. … Read more

How to Attract Lucrative Business Travelers on Airbnb & Booking.com

How to Target Business Travelers on Airbnb & Booking.com

One of the biggest ‘bumps’ in my bookings has come from specifically targeting business travelers for my Booking.com & Airbnb apartments! Contrary to what most people in their 20s believe, I know from experience that business travel isn’t always that much fun. You tend to run late from meetings, arrive late, and leave early. With … Read more

How to Make Money With Airbnb If You Don’t Own The Property

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Getting into Airbnb can be tough if you don’t own the property, but if you’re serious about it, you can do it, and there’s more than one way to make money! The simple answer to this question is yes, you can. Rent-to-rent scenarios where you rent a property with explicit consent from the landlord to … Read more

Stop Paying OTA Commission: Here are 12 insider tips.

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Online travel agencies are awesome, and we get great bookings from them, but they’re also expensive. You’ll sometimes have to (or opt in to) pay commissions of up to 25% per booking. That’s a big chunk of your revenue. The standard answer when people renting out their property on booking.com or Expedia or Airbnb when … Read more

13 Awesome Ways to Make More Money from your Short Term Rental

Make More Money from your Short Term Rental

In over three years of letting out apartments on Airbnb, Booking.com, and many other websites, I have realized that there are a ton of opportunities to increase your revenue while still presenting yourself in an honest, ethical, and professional way to your customers. The real truth is that the best guests are the ones that … Read more