Vacation Rental Hosting 101
Hosting Tips and Information to help you understand some of the lesser known issues that vacation rental hosts may encounter, as well as how to prepare as a host.
How to do a trial run for your Airbnb Vacation Rental to prepare for your first Guests
How to do a trial run for your Airbnb, and make sure you are ready for Guests. When you are ready to launch your Airbnb or VRBO listing, take these important steps to do a thorough trial run, and cleaning trial run, before you welcome your first guests. Make sure you are ready for your first Airbnb guests.
15 Mistakes New Airbnb Hosts Make, and How to Avoid Them.
Here are some of the top mistakes new Airbnb vacation rental hosts make, with details to consider so you can avoid making these mistakes too. Being prepared upfront can help save you from making costly mistakes, along with saving you some headaches and the stress of bad reviews.
10 Things All VRBO Hosts Need to Know - the VRBO Owners Blog
If a guest damages your property, throws a party, or causes any other issues that cost you money as a host, unfortunately VRBO does not offer any host protection. Most new hosts just assume that Airbnb and VRBO operate the same and that they have damage coverage, but are surprised to find out later that VRBO does not have any free protection for hosts.
How to Prepare Your Airbnb and Guests for A Power Outage
How to prepare for a power outage at your Airbnb. You need to prepare your vacation rental AND your guests for the what-if when the storms come. Both rain and snow and power supply shortages can be a real thing at vacation rentals throughout North America and the Caribbean. As a host, we know you can’t control the weather, but you need to be prepared with a few emergency supplies.
Most power companies allow you to sign up for mobile alerts for power outages, be sure to do this if it’s available for your property.
How to Recognize Scam Requests and Inquiries for your Airbnb and VRBO Rentals
Is that booking inquiry actually a scam from a fraudulent account? Are they trying to get your personal information such as the property address, or your phone number or email to communicate outside of the platform? Are they trying to pay in some way outside of the platform? Know the red flags to watch for common scams to protect your personal information and your vacation rental and listing.
15 Things You Need to Know Before Buying an Airbnb Property in 2022
Are you considering buying a vacation rental property to use as an Airbnb rental in 2022? Owning an Airbnb has proved to be quite profitable for many investors around the world. But how does one achieve success in the Airbnb investing world, and is it worth opening an Airbnb business for you?
How to Price Your Airbnb Vacation Rental
How do I set my Airbnb rates? Pricing strategy for your Airbnb & VRBO listing is important. It doesn’t necessarily need to be the same on both platforms either. Look at directly competing properties on both Airbnb and VRBO with the same bed/bath configuration, similar location and amenities and make notes, look for trends and average prices.
How to Make Your Vacation Rental Stand Out in the Crowd
In a Marketplace full of Airbnb and VRBO vacation rentals worldwide, it is very important to know what makes your property unique, in demand and how to make it stand out to more potential guests.
Every booking is important towards maximizing your revenue, but you want to find guests who book in advance and value what you have to offer, rather than constantly needing to discount your space to try and snag last minute bookings when you have too many vacant dates.
Hotels have great amenities and staff and locations, but they often can’t compete with privacy, designer charm, quality amenities and those added touches that make a vacation more comfortable or a business trip feel more like home.
Airbnb Cleaning Tips. How to Clean Your Vacation Rental
Airbnb Cleaning Tips for Vacation Rental Hosts, from experienced hosts, to keep your ratings high and provide a quality stay for your guests. Our top tips and little details for the best cleaning of your Airbnb Vacation Rental. How to turnover your airbnb. How to remove smells from your vacation rental. Do i need to clean airbnb before I leave? Guest cleaning requirements
How to Collect a Damage Deposit for your Vacation Rental and Protect Your Property from Guest Damage
How to set a Security Deposit in Airbnb to protect you from damage. How does the Airbnb Host Damage protection work? How to protect your vacation rental property from guest damage. Did you know that your property is not fully protected by Airbnb or VRBO host guarantees for damage protection and even if you go through the claim process for guest damage, you will not necessarily receive any reimbursement.
How to Market your Airbnb for the Off Season Bookings
How do you get more Airbnb guest bookings in the fall and winter? What is bringing Airbnb guests to your town, resort, area in the slower seasons? Is your area more tourism based or business travellers? What activities and events are people coming to enjoy and how long do they stay in the area? Do you need to market to short term or longer term guests for the slower seasons?
How to Prepare your Airbnb for the Off Season, Maintenance Tips and Marketing Info
Here is our maintenance guide to consider for the slow season in your Airbnb. When you finally have some vacant days in your Airbnb calendar, its the perfect time to do bigger maintenance items and touch ups to refresh your rental space. With booked out peak seasons, things can get worn and tired quickly and you need to review the full rental to make sure there aren’t damaged items, cleanliness concerns and other things that require more attention to clean up and refresh.
Maintenance Tips to keep your Airbnb Vacation Rental fresh and Top Quality for your Guests
There are a few simple things that should be on your regular checklist for maintenance in your Airbnb. May won’t really impact your guests most of the time but it’s better to get ahead of things before they cause other issues. Preparing your Airbnb for the off season with maintenance will help keep your property fresh and the guest experience great. Your Airbnb guests are rating your rental on Value and Amenities. Your VRBO guests are rating you on overall quality for your stay. Your Evolve guests are expecting a highly professional level of management and care given that your rental goes through a 3rd party manager. Despite each platform using different wording for their rating system, it all relates to the same things for cleanliness and having a great vacation rental.
Top 10 Tips to Photograph your Airbnb Vacation Rental
Top Airbnb Photo Tips. DIY photo tips for Airbnb and VRBO vacation rentals. If you don’t have the budget for a professional photographer when you are first starting out your airbnb, here are our Top 10 Tips on how to photograph your airbnb vacation rental with your phone. These tips include technical details and staging and design advice right from the Airbnb specifications sent to pro photographers.
Why we switched to Melaleuca, and how their cleaning products help our short term rental space
Melaleuca is our go-to eco friendly solution for our cleaning supplies. From their stain remover, to their highly concentrated products that eliminate plastic waste, we are a fan of all of their cleaning products and their snacks and beauty products are great quality amenities for guests.
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Comfort IS key.
If your guests aren’t comfortable during their stay, it doesn’t matter how beautiful or unique your stay is, the reviews are not going to be at their best.
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