Saulo Dias
Vacation Rental Hosts
Hello, everyone.I would like to know the best ways to connect with Vacation Rental Hosts and what they are looking for when they need to hire a professional cleaner for their properties.
Christopher Messer
STR Service to Shut Down Parties/Unruly Guests
I’m a long time lurker and first time poster in the BP Forums. After listening to a lot of the BP and other podcasts about short term rentals over the last year, I’ve noticed avoiding/shutting down parties seems to be...
Farrah Buff
Airbnb Cleaning in Washington DC
Hi all--we are looking for feedback from short-term rental hosts in the Washington, DC area. We host 2 airbnb properties (2 apartments in the same rowhouse) and are looking for someone to clean when we have Sunday tu...
Ben Hooper
Working as co-host and managing other owner's properties
I've been hosting for over a year now and have two properties i run and have enjoyed it quite a bit. I've wanted to expand the number of listings i manage, both by buying more properties but also co hosting. For any s...
Nancy Bachety
New Host-only fees for Airbnb
This is effective as of Dec 7 2020. How do you handle this when using a third party? My iGMS account is no longer connected. In order to connect it, I must allow Airbnb’s host only fee structure. What’s the solution? ...
Jesse Turner
What to ask a new STR co-host?
What should you ask a co-host/property manager when they offer to list, market, maintain, and turnover guests for 20% of gross revenue?
Cole Simpson
How Short- Term Rental Hosts Are Taxed?
Nothing stresses out a host more than short-term rental taxes.A deduction is an expense you spend on your short-term rental business that can lower your taxable income. This is a good thing! The more deductions you re...
Beverly Daves
If you could make your own property listing service...
Hello all! I hope everyone is having a nice holiday rest.Going over my rentals for the season, it struck me that the major listing services (like VRBO, HomeAway, AirBnB, etc) are getting way too comfortable after hav...
Mike Gonzalez
No pets for out Airbnb - guest brought service dogs
Hello BP! We do not allow pets for our Airbnb and guest checking in today messaged last minute that they brought 2 service well behaved dogs with them both under 10 lbs. How would you handle this situation? I don’t li...
Justin Knighten
Different Airbnb Host Fees
I'm working through my tax stuff currently. I have 2 listings on Airbnb. When adding up the host fees I've paid, it looks like one of them is at 3% and the other is being charged 5%. From what I've been able to fin...