I don't do instant booking and chat with each and every guest.

@Hillary Buckingham I’ve seen some posts about a few good books for agents on how to grow your business and improve upon your sales.

You can view their review counts to give you a rough idea on the bookings and note what their weekend/weekday pricing is to give you another form of comp.

I read Brian’s book and still learned more than a few things.  

And yes, the income from renting is still taxable, but ideally you are offsetting a chunk of that with depreciation which is a non-cash expense.You should read Amanda Han and Matt MacFarland's books as well which are available in the BP Bookstore. https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/tax-strategies-book...

So for the bookings we get on there, I am invoicing her monthly for the cleaning fees and then 18% of the rental rates for each booking.

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If you could shadow someone a little this would be better than any book.

With Airbnb prices rising, we loved the idea of investing in a few different small apartments scattered around the world so we would have a virtually free place to stay, and when we were not there we would make money off of sites like Booking and Airbnb.

Estimating is both art & science and FWIW most professional estimators rarely get it spot on, usually operating within a Delta.There's tons of estimating books, software etc.