Hi, my name is Cari-Lee Stevens, and I'm here to help you with your short-term vacation rentals.
I've had my own rentals for the past ten years throughout North America
and when I first started I had a lot of questions and I did a lot of things wrong and I know I cost myself
a lot of money I didn't need to spend.
So, my idea with these videos is that I will be able to give you some tips and tricks and some strategies and things that
I'm still learning as I'm going that will help save you money and save you time so that you can enjoy the
benefit of being a short-term rental landlord.
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Today we're going to be going into how to create your Airbnb hosting account.
This hosting account will also double as your traveling
account and I have included a referral code link that you can use and when you use that,
you will get a hundred dollars or up to a hundred dollars on your first
hosting experience and you'll also get a credit applied towards your first traveling experience. So let's get started.
Hi, we're here at airbnb.com and I'm going to show you how to get your
first hosting account. So you go to the right hand side top where it says sign up and
click on that and it's gonna ask you to sign up with Facebook,
with Google or with your email, so I'm going to choose to sign up with my email.
It really guides you through this, so you fill in your email your first name your last name,
and you create a password and remember that you need to have at least eight characters
and it needs to contain a number or a symbol.
Now it's asking me to read this over to make sure that I agree or don't agree and if I don't agree
then I'm not going to be able to put together my account. So I press accept
and it's really gonna walk you through this. So I have four steps left.
It asks me to add a profile photo, I'm gonna do a lot of this later, so skip that and
wants me to confirm my phone number again, I will do that later and
they want me to confirm the email that they've sent me and I'll do that later.
One last thing I can sync my contacts with Airbnb,
so I can share my itinerary with people and I'm not going to do that, so I will skip that and
now I'm ready to get my listing going.
On the top, right, I'm gonna click become a host and
I want to host a home versus
hosting an experience which is something that's fairly new as of the last year with Airbnb.
So it's already defaulted somehow it knows where I am and
I'm in the Phoenix area and I have a place that will sleep
eight people
and it's an entire place. So it's saying that I could earn up to that much per month. Take that with a grain of salt.
What kind of a listing do I have?
It's a home versus a hotel or something else, maybe like a bed-and-breakfast
What type of property? It is a house and
the guests will have access to the entire place versus having a private room or a shared room.
Is this set up as a dedicated guest space? Yes
My place can accommodate eight people I have three bedrooms and
the number of beds that my guests can use, I have four.
Sleeping arrangements you choose what you want here.
So you edit it and you're going to notice probably that king is not there
so I had to choose the drop-down to find it. You could also write in
toddler bed, hammock, whatever type of bed there is if there was a hammock it would just add it like that.
You do that for each room that you have and then the common spaces, so I have in my common space,
I have a sofa bed and it sleeps two people. So that makes eight beds.
How many bathrooms? I have three bathrooms, but if I had three bathrooms and a powder room, I would do three and a half.
My place is located in Phoenix and
the exact address will be shared only with confirmed guests. I've just grabbed an address
so it's asking me now to confirm where my place is located and if I wanted to I could drag this and pin it wherever
so we'll say it's there.
What amenities do I offer? There are a lot of choices here.
What kind of things do you offer your guests, do you have Wi-Fi, if you choose that you have
breakfast coffee tea, you have to make sure that it is actually some breakfast items not just coffee or tea.
Are there pets in the house? Do you have a hairdryer? Do you have a private entrance?
Smoke detector. Just check through these see what is applicable to you and to your location.
What spaces can the guests use?
again, pretty self-explanatory.
Kitchen, yes.
Laundry, washer/dryer, parking. I don't have an elevator so I don't click it. I don't have a hot tub or a gym or a pool.
If there's anything that you want to change,
here with the beds the bathrooms the amenities you can click that button to change it now.
They're asking me to set the scene with some photos a short description and a title.
I am going to skip putting up the photos at this moment in time and you can do that down here at the bottom and
it mentions that many hosts have at least 8 photos. I would add as many photos as you possibly can.
So I need to describe my space. I would suggest to also have all of this written down in advance so
you just copy and paste it in.
Keep in mind this is not a tutorial on how to write a good description,
so I've just put in anything and I've ticked off that it's great for families with kids, big groups.
I love pets but it's not appropriate for guests with pets and you can add more information
about your place if you want, optional information.
What guests can access, your interaction with the guests...
So if you are right around the corner or you live upstairs or you're out of town
but you have an assistant who helps you deal with things other things to note,
maybe your garage door is a little bit sticky sometimes and there's a trick to getting it open.
So these are the important things that you want to make sure that you're letting your guests know about.
Let them know about the neighborhood,l et them know about how to get around.
Maybe you live in a really walkable area and it's not necessary to rent a car, let them know that.
Uber is really accessible or maybe you live in an area where Uber is not accessible and it's hard to get taxis.
So just paint the picture for your guests as best as you can
You have to name your place, and again, this is not a tutorial on how to do that,
so you'll want to think of something creative and there's some suggestions on the right-hand side as you can see right here.
Add your photo. They want you to upload your photo because it confirms who you are
you want to
have a face to the name and
it puts people at ease and it's great for if you are a renter as well because nobody's going to want to rent to a
faceless person or
maybe some people will but it's always better to have a photo of yourself,
so put a photo of you, not of your dog, not of an
inanimate object, make sure it's of you and as clear as possible.
I've added my photo and I click next and now you're going to add your phone number.
As soon as you enter your phone number
Airbnb will text you or will call you with a code, you enter that code that is sent to you and you press the button and
then you get to this page.
I
already talked about adding photos and the fact that I'm not going to do that right now.
Get ready for guests, booking settings, calendar, price, etc
So these are the requirements that you are asking the guests to
ensure they've got done. These are the basics. Their
profile photo, they have a confirmed email, phone number. They've got payment information so they can book.
They also have to do the following, which is agree to your house rules,
send you a message about their trip,
tell you how many people are checking in, confirm their check-in time if they're arriving within two days.
I like to add more guest requirements just for that added security.
Government-issued ID submitted to Airbnb and
recommended by other hosts and have no negative reviews, so I click those both.
Now you set your house rules. Is this suitable for everybody? Is there smoking allowed, are there pets allowed?
What's the deal? How about additional rules? Can you think of anything you need to tell people?
What about the details that the guests must know about your home?
A lot of people don't want to rent a house that has a lot of stairs. Maybe they have bad knees, so
just give them the picture and fill out as much information as you can. I
say that my space is suitable for children that are 2 to 12 years old, but younger than that
I say no and when you say no they ask you for an explanation, so I said stairs.
Not suitable for a pet. There's no smoking allowed and there are no parties. They ask you if you have additional rules.
I said "Please no shoes in the house. Thank you", and I clicked add.
These are some details that guests must know about my home that they have to climb the stairs.
So automatically it asks you to describe the stairs. So I said we have about 15 stairs walking up to the main floor.
Review your requirements and check next.
We're on step three and this is how guests will book with you, so they're going to find your listing.
Those who meet your requirements can book available days without requesting approval and that's called instant book
If they don't meet your requirements
they can send you a reservation request and you can decide whether or not you want to host them.
You'll get a message from your guests about their trip along with the reservation confirmation,
how many people to expect and check-in time and keep in mind that how many people to expect is
only going to work if they tell you how many people they truly are bringing, so
they could be bringing five people and say they're checking in with only three.
You have the option to require all guests to send reservation requests and you can click that if you like
but for my purposes
I feel that if people already meet my requirements where I have asked for additional ID and reviews from other
hosts, I feel pretty comfortable with that.
Here's a little disclaimer that talks about your calendar being accurate,
you'll want to read that and just make sure that you do keep your calendar up to date and if you're doing a sync
with any other
platform that it works properly because that can sometimes be a bit of a glitch.
Have you rented out your place before? I
have. How often do you want to have guests?
Let's say that I'm not really sure yet.
So they're gonna get the settings ready, based on my answers.
How much notice do you need before a guest arrives? I'll say one day. You can choose same day, you can say seven days. I
I personally like same day because if you're running a business that really works well, but it only works as well as your cleaning staff.
So I've added in one day.
When can guests check in?
I usually suggest a four o'clock check-in and
either a 10:00 a.m. or 11 a.m. check out.
So this is from
the time that they can check and I thought it was when they can check in and when they check out so
if you want to make it a flexible time
if you have a key code where they just punch in a number and they can check in 24 hours a day
you can make it flexible. Otherwise choose the time that you want people to be able to check in.
How many days in advance can guests book?
Three months in advance? Six months? A year? Or make the dates unavailable by default.
How long can guests stay? I like to do a minimum of two nights and
they can stay as long as they want. So, let's see if I can put in
365 days. Great
Let's imagine that because it's coming up to the Christmas holidays
I'm gonna be busy and I'm new to doing this, so I don't want to have to deal with
anything over the holidays. I have family coming, so I'm gonna block this off.
If people want a book from the 11th until the 19th or after the 28th, that works. How do you want to set your price?
Airbnb recommends smart pricing and I am NOT a really big fan of smart pricing because I think they do
lowball you.
That being said if you want to make it easy on yourself, and you're just starting out with your bookings,
you may want to try smart pricing and I would only do that if you have that extra added layer of security,
where you're asking people
to book only if they have had
prior positive reviews and they have that extra government ID.
So let's do a fixed price.
Now let's do price adapt. See what happens.
Okay, so the minimum amounts that I want to rent my unit for is,
say $100.
The maximum price that I ever want to book it for is $500.
The base price, this is going to be my nightly default price. I'll call it $250.
They're suggesting
$132 but
again, I would do your own research before you just blindly go ahead and take that. I
want it in US dollar currency, but I could choose a lot of different currencies and
next.
Weekly discount I'd like to give people a 10% discount. They're suggesting
21% and I think a 49 percent
discount is quite generous. So I am not going to be so generous, but I'm going to say 30 percent
for the month.
Now they're letting you know what you can expect,
so if you're available to host starting, December 12, and
Lou is planning her trip and thinks your listing is perfect,
then guests who are recommended by other hosts and submitted a government-issued ID can instantly book and remember that was something that we
specifically
requested that's not always the way it is
so you have to make sure that you tick those two boxes to ensure that the guests have been recommended by other hosts and that
they have submitted their government issued ID and
they're also going to agree to your house rules.
You want to make sure that you know about your local laws and your
taxes so that you are submitting tax if you are supposed to. Sometimes Airbnb will do this on your behalf
so just make sure that you're not double paying tax.
We've seen this page before where they are asking me to add my photos, but I'm not going to do that right now
I am going to move ahead and I am going to show you how to
add in your payment information so you can get paid, as well as if you want to be a guest.
So you go up to the right-hand corner, you click on your photo and you go to account settings and
then you have payment methods and payout preferences, so payment method is for you if you are a guest and
you
want to be able to book with Airbnb you're going to have to have a credit card of some type on file.
They take Visa, American Express, MasterCard and Discover.
So you fill your information in here and it's stored in the computer so that when you go to book that's your booking method.
But we're not doing that. We're actually going to pay out preferences.
So you have three ways to be paid out you can be paid out with a bank transfer in USD,
which is in five to seven days you're being paid and USD is
because I've chosen to be paid in US dollars
if you had chosen to be paid in Canadian or Euros you would see that instead. There are no fees with the bank transfer.
PayPal, pays within three to four hours and it may incur fees.
Payoneer Prepaid Debit MasterCard
gets you paid in three to four hours and it also may incur fees.
So I'm choosing this as my
payout method.
Now I'm gonna have to enter my banking information.
So here you need to have your routing number and your account number, if you don't know how to find your routing number,
that's pretty easy to do.
You can take a look at the check that you might have and you'll see a routing number on there.
You can call your bank and you can also
look it up on your online banking. What I do is I copy and paste that and put it into my
contacts so that I always have it because it seems to me that I'm using this a lot.
This information seems to be something that I need often.
Here's an example of what a routing number looks like, it's the first
digits here on your account or on your check, and then this would be your account number and this would be your check number.
I'm not going to fill in my information. I don't want to go too far down that road
but if I remember correctly Airbnb will do some small deposits into your bank account
just to make sure that it is your bank account and you will
get guidance on what to do with that information so that you can actually get paid.
I added one photo to my listing and then I click publish.
One thing I think that is a little bit tricky that I didn't notice and I don't think that it's
anywhere in the front end, is how to set up cleaning fees and how to set up damage deposits and that's something you definitely don't
want to forget.
Click on listing
and
then manage listing.
It's always a good idea to review all of this before you let it go live anyway or before you allow bookings.
But you're going go to here to click on pricing
So we have smart pricing on the minimum prices 100 maximum price is 500. I'd like to host as often as possible and
here's the average weekly price, the average monthly price, and
here is where you fill in your extra fees.
So I'm going to make it $200, my security deposit I usually do a
security deposit that is equal to what my deductible is on my insurance. So let's call it $750.
Extra guests, sometimes I do charge for extra guests. Sometimes I don't but
that's going to be up to you and what I would suggest is if you have, for example in this place
that's 4,000 square feet, if I have 2 people staying, that
cleaning fee is probably gonna cover
because they're not going to use the whole house. If I have 8 people staying and they're staying for a week and a half
that $200 cleaning fee probably won't cover everybody,
so I might want to add a $10 fee for every person over
the first two.
So more than two guests, charge $10 a person for every night.
Just going through everything, booking settings, it's people who are able to book, are people who ...
So what does it say, guests you meet all your requirements can book without requesting approval, that's what I had wanted.
You could say all guests must send reservation requests,
even if they are people that have had great reviews from other people and they've issued their they've given their government-issued ID.
Just making sure this all looks good. Checkout time is not set. I didn't see a place to do that earlier,
so I am going to set my checkout time as
10:00 a.m
Your cancellation policy, up to you. I prefer a strict policy.
For bookings at least 14 days away allow guests to get a full refund if they cancel within 48 hours of booking, that's an option.
Availability.
Recapping that I don't need any preparation time, but I do need at least one day's notice.
They can book twelve months into the future. Minimum stay two nights,
maximum stay
365. I have no additional requirements.
Gives you, what the heck I just did this checkout time. I guess maybe I didn't save it?
Checkout time is 10 a.m. That might have been the error there.
And this is under availability, before I was under booking settings.
Check-in not allowed. What does that mean?
Specify the days of the week when guests can't check-in.
Some people only like to do their bookings
Saturday to Saturday or Sunday to Sunday and that works really well for people who are maybe in a destination
where they have a lot of charter flights coming and those charter flights, come on certain days.
So that might be why you would only allow a check-in on a certain day of the week.
Here under availability is also where you're going to find information on syncing your calendars. So if you are with Flipkey
VRBO or any other
website that allows you to sync your calendars
then you will want to import your calendar and
you do have to be careful and pay attention because they don't all play nice together and
there can be some glitches and that could cause you some problems.
We're under local laws and occupancy taxes
and because my listing is in Arizona, Airbnb collects and remits occupancy taxes on my behalf.
That wasn't always the way, so just make sure that you're staying up-to-date and if you get emails from
Airbnb that you don't ignore them because it could be a situation where you're double paying your tax and
nobody wants to double pay their tax.
Co-hosts this is fairly new,
maybe a year. I'm not really sure but
if you need help hosting with your space
you can add somebody to your account and you can also go out into your
community and find a co-host so it's not always just somebody that you know, your husband or your wife or your best friend,
it can also be somebody who does this for some extra cash and who's good at this kind of thing.
Once you start to get your bookings, you'll be interested in going into your statistics tab
which is up here on the top under statistics and this is a pretty good website
It's got a lot of information so we have no ratings yet, but you have the overall experience
rating and then all the rest of them and then you'll see your reviews down here.
You'll also see your earnings, how much you've earned for the year and you'll be able to select it by month and
how many views you've had you'll see this will go up and it'll go down and
your standards. So if you want to be a Super Host
there's some benefit to being a Super Host, a lot of debate about how beneficial it is.
You do at this moment in time,
if you are super host for a full year,
they give you a $100 travel credit to use with Airbnb and you do have to meet certain requirements
to get that and they let you know what the requirements are and you can click there and check it out.
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