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HI all, This is my first post for info. So I am excited to read the great responses that I know I will be receiving. Let's get started:My business involves buying cheaper houses that need a lot of work and rehabbing t...
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Is everyone else seeing an increase of inquiries asking for a better deal?When I started 4 years ago, it was very rare. Now a large % of guests ask for discount. In the past 24 hours alone, got 2/3 inquiries per prope...
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Frank Rolfe:The PBS News Hour recently ran a segment titled "Bad Bargain? Manufactured Homeowners Feel the Financial Strain", as a par...
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I posted 2 months ago, i was 2 weeks into launching our first STR in Panama City Beach, using everything that I had learned researching and reading here.2 months later, we just passed $50k+ in bookings for the year an...
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Had a guest just check out who smoked weed in our cabin (besides the point but thought it would help our case) and then left a 2-STAR review. I couldn't believe my eyes. We had a 4.92 rating through 13 guests with no ...
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Have you stayed in a few AirBnB rentals? VRBO? Have you stayed in the big city and then compared that to a place in the country near a tourist attraction? What was your experience?I've stayed in a dozen or more AirBnB...
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Hi everyone! Hopefully I'm dropping this post in the right forum. I'd be happy to repost if it needs to go elsewhere.We have 2 bids from companies for a small extension + backyard ADU project here in the San Francisco...
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Starting a vacation rental business is a potentially great way to grow personal wealth, even if you aren’t a homeowner or if you have bad credit. Making the business successful and maintaining good ratings, however, r...
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Got our first booking through AirBnb. Guest left us private feedback (wrote it on a notebook and texted us photos), although she emphasized that she "WANTED" to make it public. Some of it was warranted, but some of it...
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Hi BP, I run a small time property management company that helps take care of STR's and second homes in Summit County, Colorado; an area completely saturated with STR's, and I'm starting to see a correlation of pain p...