Wireless speakers and TV's in a listing

[Lior Golan]

Hey everyone,

I am keeping with the preparation for equipping my first short-term rental with multimedia and furnishing, and started to wonder what is the best way to add wireless speakers in a listing without the ability of fear stealing them.

I started to think about the TVs in my property and saw the Roku TV is the best option, but then I see that a soundbar is also an option to equip with the TV (thinking of equipping it with the living room TV). So then I started to do research and realized that a wireless speaker is a good option but it's better to put a speaker, like Sonos, mounted on the wall and put some Echo dots (the ones that comes with a clock) around the house.

I am afraid that using the echo dots option would bring the guests to steal the dots... (the echo can be a good option to act as a chime for the Eufy doorbell I have)

So how should I act with:

* sound bars/wireless speakers
* echo dots
* Should I put TVs only in the living room and master? Or also in other bedrooms? (I have 4 bedrooms)

Thank you

[Lauren Kormylo]

Quote from @Kenneth Woodruff:

We have TV's in every room of our STR including the kitchen. I don't know that I could charge more for them but I have had 2 guests in the last year ask if they were in bedrooms before booking. We use Roku on each, no extra speakers. The echo is a no, it won't work anyway, it requires an account holders phone to be present in the house to function, or to leave a tablet in the house signed into the account, most don't know that. One thing to remember, you will have to check each TV as part of the turnover as EVERYONE forgets to sign out of their streaming accounts when they leave. Good luck.

Roku now allows you to put it into Guest Mode, which requires the guest put in their date of departure, and automatically signs them out on that date. That’s how I have mine set.