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All Forum Posts by: John Underwood

John Underwood has started 106 posts and replied 12078 times.

Post: Short Term Rental-Famous person previous owner

John Underwood
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That's cool.

I would certainly advertise that and add pictures and themed items to house.

Post: Pool liability mitigation

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Make sure pool is listed on your insurance policy. Follow all safety requirements your Insurance Company plus city and county require.

This usually includes childproof access and alarms.

Post: Experience with BNB Leverage

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So many things wrong with all this.

First don't pay for this. It seems sketchy.

Second, Most of us on here do not approve of Arbitrage for so many reasons. 

Post: Electronic Lock Recommendations

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Schlage Encode.

Post: Dynamic Pricing leads to Accusations of Price Gouging in JT

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I guess they are holding you ultimately responsible for pricelabs raising rates.

Post: Interesting use case for ChatGPT Operator:

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Definitely interesting. 

I can see AI as being potentially super helpful with many RE tasks.

Post: Your First Airbnb: Do’s and Don’t

John Underwood
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Quote from @Collin Hays:

I'm not big on automating guest communication. Nothing worse than needing something and communicating with a bot.


 I agree. Vrbo automates the basics, but beyond the basics I will promptly answer.

Post: I Just opened my own STR Property Management Company!

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Yours sounds like a much better model than most. You are local and adding value add!

Post: LLPAs for Vacation Home Loans

John Underwood
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I just heard a strategy of selling points instead of buying points. You get money at closing and then you refinance when rates go down.

Anyone done this before?

Post: Giving VRBO a head start on Airbnb

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In my experience Vrbo has buried Airbnb.  I get 95% of my bookings from Vrbo. I got 3 total in 2024 from Airbnb.