All Forum Posts by: Lauren Kormylo

Some trash companies have a service for an extra charge where they will wheel it out to the curb, because handicapped and the elderly often can’t do it. Call and see if yours does. 

I agree Rooms To Go would be fine.  I bought my 6 mattresses from Mattress Firm with 0% financing for 1 year when I was furnishing my place.  I paid it off within the year, so it cost me no interest. 

Thrift stores take a lot of time to shop at, wasted time in my opinion. I found nothing good at the ones near my STR, it was total crap that I would be embarrassed to have my guests use. And if they don't deliver, you need a truck and an extra person. Your time is worth money, it's time that guests aren't renting your house.

Sinistar has been asked about before here, but I don't remember anyone having direct experience with them.

As far as PadSplit, you'll have to check city and county laws concerning the number of unrelated people allowed to live in a house.  Some localities have limits, some don't.  For instance, Sedona AZ has a limit of 4 unrelated adults living on a residential lot, so PadSplit won't work there. If PadSplit is already operating in your city, there shouldn't be a problem with that.  Not to say the law couldn't change of course.  You are aware that PadSplit requires you to convert your living and dining rooms into additional bedrooms, right?  So you'll be putting out quite a bit of money to do that, and when you sell, you'll most likely have to convert it back. 

Remove it.  It's in the way of the only full-height headroom there.  It's a burn hazard to someone trying to walk around it, they're going to be constantly brushing by hot metal. 

As an alternative, you could supply guests with a dog blanket to put on the the sofa.   https://www.amazon.com/couch-covers-pets/s?k=couch+covers+fo...  I supply a similar cover for the master bed because I've had dogs' nails snag the stitching on the quilt. 

But my sofa has a medium gray fabric that wipes off pretty well with a wet microfiber cloth, and dogs have not stained it or even gotten it very dirty so far. If you go with white or a very light color, you may need to have cleanable covers.  So if you still want removable covers, search for "sofas that come with slipcovers".  Wayfair has a selection.  

Wedding photographers would love to use the front porch for photographs, it's very impressive, especially with the Juliet balcony.  The back patio and large trees on the grounds would be great for that too.  

It sounds like you don't need a co-host, you need a Virtual Assistant, as @Alex F. says.

You are not being overly overcautious. I see the same, a lot of STRs without much pool safety at all. 

I live in Phoenix AZ, where we take our pool safety very seriously, as kids die every year in pools because it's warm and they swim much of the year.  Because of that, the laws here are very strict.  But the thing you'll have to do is call insurance companies and find out what their requirements are for pools, and treat that as the minimum you'll do.  You might want to look up the pool requirements for Phoenix and Scottsdale AZ if you want to be the safest you can be, despite the lax laws in other localities.  Besides the financial liability, I would not want the mental trauma and anxiety of knowing a kid had died in my pool. 

I think it would, depending on the celebrity of course.  And if you had it themed or had memorabilia of theirs.  

There's also the fact that during Covid, Airbnb, going against hosts' cancellation policies, cancelled bookings and refunded any guest who said they had Covid, or their grandmother had Covid so they'd been exposed, or any other ridiculous excuse.  With no proof required.   Hosts lost tens of thousands of dollars. Vrbo did not do that, they kept to the hosts' policies as they should have.
@Karina Busch It's not automatic, you have to synchronize the calendars yourself. Google it and you'll find instructions.  It's not hard, just takes a few minutes.