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 Price Your Airbnb Vacation Rental
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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.

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How to Make Your Vacation Rental Stand Out in the Crowd
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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.

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How to Market your Airbnb for the Off Season  Bookings
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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?

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Top 10 Tips to Photograph your  Airbnb Vacation Rental
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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.

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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.

The Bedding is the #1 key to guest comfort right after temperature control

I am a big eco-nerd, but in a practical way, i can’t afford a Tesla - yet ;)

If I can find THE BEST pillows, sheets and duvets for my own use and they are organic and non toxic, well that’s pretty awesome. I recently connected with an organic bedding company to try out some of their products sponsored and can’t wait to see how I sleep.

Check out Sleep & Beyond and let me know if you have tried their hot item - the merino wool pillows, or their luxury organic cotton sheets. I want to know what you think!

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Allergy Free Products are important to many guests. Soft, comfortable bedding is even more important

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