All Forum Posts by: Andrew Wong

Anybody have furnished rentals in the bay area and want to form a referral group of some sorts? I often times get people inquiring about my units, but they're not a good fit either due to price or size. I'd love to be able to find a group of people to send referrals to and form a mutually beneficial partnership with.

PM me if interested. I'm located in Mountain View and Palo Alto.

I have multiple rentals.

I use QBO for the auto import, the ease to make PNL graphs and charts, and to be able to analyze what my expenses are across time, and where I can cut costs and make more money. QBO has pretty charts.

What is your target market for long term furnished rentals?

I think this post is in the wrong forum.

I'd be extremely disappointed if I went on vacation and it turned out there were no towels in the place I rented, wouldn't you?

Also I'm in the NY area, where is your rental?

@Valerie Rogers, thanks for that site. I'll need to check it out.

On every booking that is done, we clean her. Our cleaner isn't on retainer or anything, so its task based.

@Mindy Jensen, do your higher more excited reviews command a higher $/night than your competition?

Thanks all! Definitely will just be buying AC and increasing the price of my units accordingly to the market rate of the other units that have AC. There is a bit of a disparity between units w/o AC and units w/ AC in my area.

To me, AC is a luxury. I havent had it in any of the places I've lived in. However, the main thing I learned out of here is that it's all about the customer's comfort.

I had the expectation that guests who book my place, given that AC isnt listed as an amenity, will be okay without AC. AirBnB actually took my side about my guest wanting to cancel due to there not being AC because my listing was posted accurately.

Now the question is, do I get AC units across my whole fleet, or just wait until the next hot season since it's fall now...

@Mindy Jensen fair enough. AC is important, and STRs are all about customer satisfaction.

I gotta ask though, what WOULD you "nickel and dime" for? What would you consider something worth upselling? Or would you consider upselling things in general putting petty charges on minor services?