Last March I started Airbnb hosting. Now it's time to share a few thoughts about it.
I didn't know hardly anything about Airbnb hosting, so I read about it on the Airbnb pages, and started thinking about an advertisement.
Making the advertisement was interesting, because there were many things to think about.
- What is a good price?
- How does the customer get a realistic picture of the space I'm hiring?
- What are my rules?
- What do I offer the guests?
- How about the communication, should I answer the messages as fast as possible?
- How many guests can I host every month?
Somehow this is something, that is partly only learned by doing.
If you enjoy meeting new people, it will be interesting for sure.
And everyone has their specific needs. So customer service and communications are also needed.
Keeping the calendar up to date is important. When you know, that it's not possible to host, close the days from the calendar.
I've realized, that it's better to take less people (at the moment) and try to make their experience as good as possible, than to take all the reservations, that I couldn't handle.
These are just a few thoughts.
Find the uniqueness of your space.
It might be the closeness to nature, or something else.
