Joe Kim
Latest Airbnb debacle,100 people party, 5 shot dead! - what next?
If you have not heard about a recent 5 person shooting death at a 100 person party in a quiet (quite affluent) surburb of SF bay area (Orinda), you can google it or read the synposis here https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/0...
Pavel K.
Need to Ban a Violent Guest from Property - how to handle?
Hi all,My tenant's family member and her boyfriend (who are not on the lease) are causing destruction of property and many issues - such as damaging another tenant's property during an argument. I was wondering if any...
Angelleena Arevalo
Airbnb - Long-Term Stays - 30+ days
Hello,I have officially listed my first Airbnb and received a long-term stay request. My initial thought was positive as we are transitioning from summer to fall and bookings are slowing down. After giving this idea m...
Daniel Murphy
How closely does Airbnb watch messages with guests?
For context, we built a local area guide (under construction) for our STR area. This also includes our direct booking page and every page of the website, has a link to our direct booking page. With time, we hope to b...
Jenny Milu
What's your best piece of advice or tip when starting out managing a STR?
We are closing on our first STR this week! YAY!
It's a completely turn key property, the sellers are transferring their profiles over on all of the booking sites, all of their contacts etc... It feels so easy and lik...
Christopher Oliva
Airbnb/STR guest liability waiver?
Hi everyone, I'll be getting my first STR on the market soon and I've started to wonder about liability if a guest gets hurt or something happens to them during their stay.
Does airbnb have a built in liability waiv...
Tommy Cheng
Using Simplisafe as Airbnb Smart Lock
Does anybody have any experience using SimpliSafe Smart locks for their STRs? I know it's possible to add guest codes. I have extra SimpliSafe locks and wanted to put it on my ADU for STR reasons, but they're never li...
Nick C.
Drug use in your rental property
I have just been made aware by tenants of my fraternity house that people that don't even live there will bring illegal drugs (not weed, much worse), supply them to a couple tenants and do them.
I do not tolerate th...
Shannon Green
Asking for IDs for all renters per stay.....good or bad?
We have an STR beach home in South Padre Island. We recently had a large group; larger than what was allowed, stay at our home and their behavior was unacceptable. We found out that one of the kids mother's rented t...
Greg San Martin
14-30 Day Actively Managed STR Possible for W2 Earner?
I own a triplex and currently occupy one of the units (I may move out). I have a sophisticated W2 from a full time job (not at home). I would like to offer actively managed STRs for a year or two until the end of bo...