Tiny House Success and Expansion Report

[Leigh Ann Smith]

We've just finished our first full month of renting our Tiny House on the Christmas Tree Farm through AirBnB.  The minimum number of rental nights we need for a reasonable return is 7 nights per month, and we had 11, so we are delighted!  We marketed the listing with a Facebook ad directed to fans of our farm's Facebook page and their friends. The ads resulted in over 1,000 clicks on the AirBnB listing, so we were pleased with that.

Because we're off to a good start, we bit the bullet and purchased our second tiny house on wheels this weekend.  Our first house, "Lone Star", sleeps 2, and the new one, "Bluebonnet", will sleep 4.

We have 3 RV hookups for the tiny houses, but we will probably wait a year or so before adding the third.

One goal we have is to try to increase weekly rentals, and we're considering running Google ads to try to drum up some of those.

[Juan Diaz]

@Leigh Ann Smith

I googled Marvel, TX, and it looks pretty far out from Houston. Adding the tiny house into the equation, and I would guess that most guests are looking for the charm factor as opposed to location. 

That would seem to me that you'd want to follow similar strategies that successful bed n breakfasts  & other funky airbnbs do: find a blog that pulls out fun & wacky listings, see if you can get it showcased there. Maybe advertise there as well? Either way, it seems like your guests are in it for the charm, so anything and everything you can do there from an advertising standpoint will likely pay off. 

Congratulations on the success!