AIRBNB HOSTING STARTER GUIDE

Airbnb Startup Checklists for room-by-room amenities and shopping.

Our First Vacation Rental Start-Up Guide

Designed for new & inexperienced hosts on Airbnb and VRBO

My first Airbnb startup checklist and airbnb hosting guide for Vacation Rental Owners.


50 pages of content to help you walk through the steps that I recommend to help you launch your first vacation rental and avoid some common mistakes and stress when you are first starting out.

The guide includes detailed content and checklists to help you walk through the full start-up to launch process:

  • Room by Room start-up checklists of the Airbnb amenities and shopping you need to do

  • How to do an initial inspection to start your design plan and budget and make sure you take care of maintenance things that could turn away guests

  • Tips on hiring cleaners, photographers, property managers and co-hosts

  • Pricing Tips and Listing Details

  • How to avoid common mistakes that new hosts make

  • Making your listing look professional and stand-out from the crowd, right from the start.

How to Start your First Airbnb Ebook


Room by Room Airbnb startup checklist of amenities and shopping lists, and a maintenance inspection how-to and deep cleaning list to make sure you have the details covered before your first guests arrive.

This Airbnb hosting guide was entirely written by Alanna (me!) just for new Airbnb vacation rental hosts. This vacation rental hosting guide is best suited for brand new Airbnb or VRBO vacation rental owners and hosts, or anyone looking to purchase/invest in their first vacation rental in the next few months or get started as a co-host for other owners.

The guide covers a lot of basic starter tips, preparation and detailed amenities and room by room shopping guides so you can walk yourself through the process from property purchase to launching your listing and accepting your first renters.

It also covers topics like safety and maintenance considerations, researching your local competition and running through your initial numbers to make sure your rates make sense to cover costs and profits from the start.

This guide gets you to the point where you hit GO and launch and finalize your new listing to accept those first bookings.

For detailed Amazon shopping guides and product recommendations please check out our guides here


This startup guide DOES NOT go into the “what happens next” process with your first guests or beyond the launch process. It is intended to cover most of the details to consider from the property purchase through to setting your new listings to live on VRBO and AIRBNB.

If you would like to have a personalized 1:1 review of your listing and to talk through the next steps and first guests, I offer 1:1 zoom coaching calls. Check out my services HERE to support you in your hosting business.