You’re the best 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 hands down 👌🏽 thank you for assisting me on creating the career I have always dreamed of. Working for myself in the travel and tourism industry. By setting up an Airbnb private villa. Thank you and keep doing what you’re doing. It’s changing lives.
LOVE the tip about adding a little text bubble on some pics. have added "king bed" to two listings' hero photos. tip: put it in the bottom left, but not too far over that it gets cut off when displayed in square format. took me 4 tries to get it right.
Thank you Sean! I started following you about 2 weeks ago. Someone canceled two weeks ago. It just so happened one of your pricing videos popped up after midnight. That same day I watched your video I changed my price. I had 3 days left before someone could book because I have a minimum stay. Someone booked later that night.
Having your own internal cleaning teams is impossible unless you can guarantee them full time jobs many housekeeping workers have residential clients and Airbnb’s schedules are hectic. Many of them don’t show up I’m beyond happy with our cleaning service who specialize in short term rental cleaning I’d rather pay extra for peace of mind than penny pinch like Sean is saying.
I somewhat agree with this. I'd hire my own full time employees if not every listing had to be done within the same 4 hour period, but with 10 listings I'd need at least 6 different people working at the same times in order to make that work. Seems like a headache.
@@scottmaaronson yeah, what absolutely destroys you having a team in place are same day turns, also the majority of check-outs happen on weekends! It’s a major headache. Found this company they do end-to-end back of the house service from turnovers, laundry, inspection and maintenance the money I pay them for the peace of mind I get and being able to grow my Airbnb business is worth every penny. They also, send me reports keeping me up to date with everything, even if I grew to 100 properties and potentially could hire internal teams I wouldn’t do it because you still need to Manage them. You could hire a manager for that but at the end of the day it’s just about the same with outsourcing to a business that’s dedicated specifically to those services a manager could leave you and then you’re stuck in a never ending loop of having to retrain them. Just my 2 cents.
So guarantee them the work. What’s so hard? Well, I’ll rescind the question in part. If this is hard for you to do, you’re not thinking like a CEO. And your complaining about your personal inability to lead a cleaning team has no bearing on what an actual best practice is for anyone who can lead a team. (Respectfully) I hope you get better at this aspect of the business so you can get out of your disbelief
@@AirbnbAutomated I am guaranteeing them work via another company because I’m giving them my business, my bottom line is healthy and I don’t worry about managing cleaners, keeping an eye on my properties for the most part, laundry services or minor maintenance issues this all being outsourced and I’m helping another business grow while I grow mine and not pull my hair in the process. You know for a fact better than anyone and are downplaying how hard the back of the service for this industry is Airbnb’s aren’t set up like hotels and I challenge you to actually do a day in the life of your turns/housekeeping teams being managed in the city/state where you have more doors.
lol, it's not a real word, and when you name your company with an unpronounceable name, this is what happens. But yeah, agree it was nice to hear it said like that.
I have Evolve management on our property in Lake Havasu City Arizona and have a house cleaner that charges $175 for every cleaning. Her monthly charge is $170 for taking care of our guests and property. Evolve is charging 10%. We live in California cant manage ourselves. What do you think? We only have one home.
I am learning a lot from your content. I’m starting to notice more listings from VRBO. The str space is more fun and less headache than rentals. I’m adding my fourth unit that was a rental previously. I definitely plan to engage with your paid subscription as your information is well worth it!
Not getting any inquiries for summer at the beach…. Makes no sense when the entire town is “no vacancy” Can’t figure out what is going on. Active listings for the past five years and now… nothing
I haven’t noticed a change in my bookings other than the summer rush. I do give discounts to my returning guests, but stopped giving the suggested discounts. I guess I’ll change that if bookings slow down, though.
I disagree Sean. ABNB has shadow listed a whole sector of very successful long term listings (5 years plus) with high occupancy crashed to zero new bookings around last mid summer. I just got my 2 guesthouses un-shadowed when I answered a weird customer survey thing they kept sending me, so I answered it, every question, it took a lot of time but I told the truth of my experience and after 3 months of no new bookings I got in about half an hour a 3 month booking from my base line target market consumer- travel nurse/contract worker. There are no accidents. Answering that survey un blocked my listing, it was seen and booked at 4:30 am.
We started on Airbnb and took off quickly for the first 2 months, but then we booked a 2 month extended stay via furnished finder. Suddenly our listing is very difficult to find on the Airbnb list in our area for future available dates. We’ve had only 1 booking in the last 30 days due to this extended stay and I’m curious if we’ve been hurt ourselves with the Airbnb interest algorithm. Thoughts or advice?
My properties' revenues are up 5-20% from last year, my prices are higher, and don't see any drop-off. The key is to be the top 5-10% of coveted listings in your market. Either by location, design, uniqueness, high-demand amenities, or other intangibles. This attracts the market of guests with inelastic demand (high wealth so not affected by inflation/recession). These guests will always travel and will pay whatever it takes for the best properties. Best thing to do is keep improving your property. Although arbitrage model does not work well in this environment as improving property is often not possible and are usually mediocre listings.
I was totally Vibing with everything you said until you said that the arbitrage model does not work well in this environment. The reason you give is accurate but there are a lot of other considerations. Probably some other bigger picture stuff like the inability refinance out of a house to expand with this current market. With arbitrage you can respond faster to consumer data and trends. It’s easier to pick up properties that I have a pool agent and a hot tub for a lower price. The cost to completely paint an apartment to create a unique design is also much less expensive.
@@AirbnbAutomated True, with arbitrage much better flexibility to trade-up to better listings depending on lease terms. If stuck with a long lease (from what I hear some try to lock-in 2 to 3 year lease so rent doesn't change) then it's a bit more complicated to upgrade in-place since don't own the property
Making changes to a property, absolutely. But that is also downtime you don’t want once operating. Mixed bag there. Rehabbing is in the sacred doctrine of owning property as a means of wealth generation. Once in airbnb it is something you hope to never need to do.
@@AirbnbAutomated We set aside one week (sometimes two) per year for capex improvements. More than pays for lost income. With the end in mind of either reducing pain points or increasing conversions
A smart guy, I watched even though I came her to figure out how airbnb is tracking my location/VPN use. My google account is supposedly not tracking my location, I use proton VPN in the new stealth mode & in safari private browsing and still, somehow, Airbnb detects that I am using a VPN and denies access. Once I turn off the VPN it works normally. Am a full time wanderer and have stayed at 150+ Airbnb's all over the planet, so am not a newbie. Any ideas? Anyone? Bueller?
Question for you! I am currently working as a manager for an individual who does rental arbitrage. We do single family homes. We have 9 properties. I do just about everything from finding the new deals, marketing, dynamic pricing (using pricelabs), customer service, scheudling with handymen, pool maintenance, property runs, staging, as well as managing cleaners and virtual assistants. I get paid a salary of 42k a year... The owner is barley involved in anything other than maybe making sure payments to homeowners are taken care of. Is 42k way to low of a salary?
And the person you work for is a cohost and not the owner of the properties? If so your company is probably collecting 25% on the nine houses which could be anywhere between 60 and $100,000 a month of revenue. If your boss is doing nothing is further your career growth and has gotten lazy and left you to deal with his client you could cut him out and take over those contracts at 25% less cost.
@@AirbnbAutomated Thank you for the response Sean! I have learned so much from your videos😁 His LLC owns one of the properties and pays rent, utilities, and staging costs at the others. The LLC gets 100% of the revenue from 7 of the listings. They are single family homes though not an apartment complex, I forgot to mention that part. The company made about $210k on our bookings since I started back in September of last year. During that time I’ve taken on just about everything mentioned above.
I am using AirBnb's professional tools and most of the categories are running steady month over month *except* the number of page views is down drastically. My first page impression rate is constant and wish list addition is still good. My "search to listing conversion" rate remains high and my "listing to booking conversion rate" is higher in the last 30 days than it has ever been in previous months. It seems that if I am not ending up in search results, it is because of people searching by price range. Does that sound right?
Hi Sean- I have never scaled as you have, however have had 20 year experience in STRs. Guesthouse on our property in Los Gatos CA starting 2001 on VRBO (one of the first in the south bay) was Premier 5* 130+ reviews, then started with Airbnb in 2011 became Superhost. Now I live in Reno, NV and have started again - family property in Incline Village, NV. Am on both platforms - Airbnb and VRBO. Can't complain, since starting in July I'm booked through mid-September. All bookings so far have been Airbnb - I think that is because my history carried, showed I was an 'Experienced Host'. However nothing with VRBO - why do they not acknowledge a host's history as Airbnb does? Interestingly however, once I got 3 reviews on Airbnb - that 'Experienced Host' (in the top 3 items in the listing) went away ;-/ I am going to check out your channel - thanks so much for the helpful info!
Hi Sean, I really need your help and guru wisdom with this one. I recently just bought a new property to rent out via Airbnb, but I launched my listing too soon while the previous owner still had her listing online. This probably caused airbnb to ban my account and now I have been waiting for more than a week to get a response from them... But they didnt give me any feedback or response. Can you PLEASE advice me what to do now? Greetings
@@AirbnbAutomated no I am not, i called them. And I dont have their email. They said they would escalate it. But never responded. Even after calling 5-6 times…
Hello Everyone, I am new here and I've been watching his videos. I want to start Airbnb an empty room I have. My question is I would only like to open it up to Women only since I live alone, good idea or bad idea? I've never Airbnb before
I noticed my loft of 3 years (Atlanta) has slowed down in bookings. Not so much the number of bookings (occupancy rate) but the lead time has diminished greatly. Bookings come only a couple of days out now (0-3 days), as opposed to a week or more. Also, Atlanta is over saturated causing lower nightly rates, to compete.
Airbnb is pushing long term stays and I followed their suggestion and then I’m not able to find myself in searches again after the 30 days Anyone else??
@@AirbnbAutomated i couldn't even tell you what it was, i'm the type to have my finger over the L key, reading to skip 10secs forward to avoid all the waffle. smart youtubers know that a long intro is outdated. Even a teaser just annoys me, there's NO need to have a teaser on a 7min vid, esp when there's probably only 5mins of actual good content.
Finally someone actually addressing this with actual solutions 👏🏽 Thanks Sean
My pleasure!
You were SO RIGHT about being overpriced for the current market. Adjusted my prices on price labs and got two bookings for this week. 🔥
You’re the best 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 hands down 👌🏽 thank you for assisting me on creating the career I have always dreamed of. Working for myself in the travel and tourism industry. By setting up an Airbnb private villa. Thank you and keep doing what you’re doing. It’s changing lives.
We had smart pricing on and we didn't realize that a lot of our summer dates were ridiculously expensive. We lowered our cap and got more bookings!
LOVE the tip about adding a little text bubble on some pics. have added "king bed" to two listings' hero photos. tip: put it in the bottom left, but not too far over that it gets cut off when displayed in square format. took me 4 tries to get it right.
Great stuff. Agreed 100% “AirBnB screwed my listing!” Translation: “I might not have what it takes to make it in this space.”
Thank you Sean! I started following you about 2 weeks ago. Someone canceled two weeks ago. It just so happened one of your pricing videos popped up after midnight. That same day I watched your video I changed my price. I had 3 days left before someone could book because I have a minimum stay. Someone booked later that night.
Welcome to the channel!
I just watched your video on this from February and loving the updates! Thanks for posting.
More to come!
Having your own internal cleaning teams is impossible unless you can guarantee them full time jobs many housekeeping workers have residential clients and Airbnb’s schedules are hectic. Many of them don’t show up I’m beyond happy with our cleaning service who specialize in short term rental cleaning I’d rather pay extra for peace of mind than penny pinch like Sean is saying.
I somewhat agree with this. I'd hire my own full time employees if not every listing had to be done within the same 4 hour period, but with 10 listings I'd need at least 6 different people working at the same times in order to make that work. Seems like a headache.
@@scottmaaronson yeah, what absolutely destroys you having a team in place are same day turns, also the majority of check-outs happen on weekends! It’s a major headache. Found this company they do end-to-end back of the house service from turnovers, laundry, inspection and maintenance the money I pay them for the peace of mind I get and being able to grow my Airbnb business is worth every penny. They also, send me reports keeping me up to date with everything, even if I grew to 100 properties and potentially could hire internal teams I wouldn’t do it because you still need to Manage them. You could hire a manager for that but at the end of the day it’s just about the same with outsourcing to a business that’s dedicated specifically to those services a manager could leave you and then you’re stuck in a never ending loop of having to retrain them. Just my 2 cents.
So guarantee them the work. What’s so hard?
Well, I’ll rescind the question in part. If this is hard for you to do, you’re not thinking like a CEO. And your complaining about your personal inability to lead a cleaning team has no bearing on what an actual best practice is for anyone who can lead a team. (Respectfully)
I hope you get better at this aspect of the business so you can get out of your disbelief
@@AirbnbAutomated I am guaranteeing them work via another company because I’m giving them my business, my bottom line is healthy and I don’t worry about managing cleaners, keeping an eye on my properties for the most part, laundry services or minor maintenance issues this all being outsourced and I’m helping another business grow while I grow mine and not pull my hair in the process. You know for a fact better than anyone and are downplaying how hard the back of the service for this industry is Airbnb’s aren’t set up like hotels and I challenge you to actually do a day in the life of your turns/housekeeping teams being managed in the city/state where you have more doors.
I built this 150 door portfolio from the ground up. I’ve cleaned as many properties as the person you’re hiring.
Finally someone actually pronouncing vrbo correctly
lol, it's not a real word, and when you name your company with an unpronounceable name, this is what happens. But yeah, agree it was nice to hear it said like that.
Always very helpful to get your take on these things, Sean!
Was waiting for this for a long time
I just love your channel ❤️ You are really the best !
How do find and do the bobble sign ?
08:39 thanks for the mention ❤️
Thank you, this is what i was looking for, more of this please.
Very useful tips I will share your video to my group,
I have Evolve management on our property in Lake Havasu City Arizona and have a house cleaner that charges $175 for every cleaning. Her monthly charge is $170 for taking care of our guests and property. Evolve is charging 10%. We live in California cant manage ourselves. What do you think? We only have one home.
Promote the housekeeper to manager.
@@AirbnbAutomated Not sure she can do that. What would I pay her?
You’d pay her 5% of revenue plus her cleaning fees. And try to get a couple other hosts to make the switch too
I am learning a lot from your content. I’m starting to notice more listings from VRBO. The str space is more fun and less headache than rentals. I’m adding my fourth unit that was a rental previously.
I definitely plan to engage with your paid subscription as your information is well worth it!
I’m doing my second this month. What a gamble!
Not getting any inquiries for summer at the beach…. Makes no sense when the entire town is “no vacancy”
Can’t figure out what is going on. Active listings for the past five years and now… nothing
Thank you for all of these info!!
I haven’t noticed a change in my bookings other than the summer rush. I do give discounts to my returning guests, but stopped giving the suggested discounts. I guess I’ll change that if bookings slow down, though.
I disagree Sean. ABNB has shadow listed a whole sector of very successful long term listings (5 years plus) with high occupancy crashed to zero new bookings around last mid summer. I just got my 2 guesthouses un-shadowed when I answered a weird customer survey thing they kept sending me, so I answered it, every question, it took a lot of time but I told the truth of my experience and after 3 months of no new bookings I got in about half an hour a 3 month booking from my base line target market consumer- travel nurse/contract worker. There are no accidents. Answering that survey un blocked my listing, it was seen and booked at 4:30 am.
Thank you 😊
We're booked at like 50% by VRBO, up from probably 5%!
Such an expert ! Thank you for this amazing analysis ! Yoann from Paris, France ;)
We started on Airbnb and took off quickly for the first 2 months, but then we booked a 2 month extended stay via furnished finder. Suddenly our listing is very difficult to find on the Airbnb list in our area for future available dates. We’ve had only 1 booking in the last 30 days due to this extended stay and I’m curious if we’ve been hurt ourselves with the Airbnb interest algorithm. Thoughts or advice?
Have you figured anything out?
My properties' revenues are up 5-20% from last year, my prices are higher, and don't see any drop-off. The key is to be the top 5-10% of coveted listings in your market. Either by location, design, uniqueness, high-demand amenities, or other intangibles. This attracts the market of guests with inelastic demand (high wealth so not affected by inflation/recession). These guests will always travel and will pay whatever it takes for the best properties. Best thing to do is keep improving your property. Although arbitrage model does not work well in this environment as improving property is often not possible and are usually mediocre listings.
I was totally Vibing with everything you said until you said that the arbitrage model does not work well in this environment. The reason you give is accurate but there are a lot of other considerations. Probably some other bigger picture stuff like the inability refinance out of a house to expand with this current market. With arbitrage you can respond faster to consumer data and trends. It’s easier to pick up properties that I have a pool agent and a hot tub for a lower price. The cost to completely paint an apartment to create a unique design is also much less expensive.
@@AirbnbAutomated True, with arbitrage much better flexibility to trade-up to better listings depending on lease terms. If stuck with a long lease (from what I hear some try to lock-in 2 to 3 year lease so rent doesn't change) then it's a bit more complicated to upgrade in-place since don't own the property
Making changes to a property, absolutely. But that is also downtime you don’t want once operating. Mixed bag there.
Rehabbing is in the sacred doctrine of owning property as a means of wealth generation. Once in airbnb it is something you hope to never need to do.
@@AirbnbAutomated We set aside one week (sometimes two) per year for capex improvements. More than pays for lost income. With the end in mind of either reducing pain points or increasing conversions
Totally right Cyrus!
A smart guy, I watched even though I came her to figure out how airbnb is tracking my location/VPN use. My google account is supposedly not tracking my location, I use proton VPN in the new stealth mode & in safari private browsing and still, somehow, Airbnb detects that I am using a VPN and denies access. Once I turn off the VPN it works normally. Am a full time wanderer and have stayed at 150+ Airbnb's all over the planet, so am not a newbie. Any ideas? Anyone? Bueller?
So should I immediately start multiplatform when I list my first stay or should I start with one and then expand to others?
List in both. Block the first 20 days on VRBO
@@AirbnbAutomated can you state why block first 20 days?
Do you say this because of new listing boost?
Yes. To create a more permanent solid airbnb ranking. Watch my SEO video. Maybe 10-15 videos back
When you say to add a little bubble to your photo, do you mean your main image or to other images? I like the idea.
Question for you! I am currently working as a manager for an individual who does rental arbitrage. We do single family homes. We have 9 properties. I do just about everything from finding the new deals, marketing, dynamic pricing (using pricelabs), customer service, scheudling with handymen, pool maintenance, property runs, staging, as well as managing cleaners and virtual assistants. I get paid a salary of 42k a year... The owner is barley involved in anything other than maybe making sure payments to homeowners are taken care of. Is 42k way to low of a salary?
And the person you work for is a cohost and not the owner of the properties? If so your company is probably collecting 25% on the nine houses which could be anywhere between 60 and $100,000 a month of revenue.
If your boss is doing nothing is further your career growth and has gotten lazy and left you to deal with his client you could cut him out and take over those contracts at 25% less cost.
@@AirbnbAutomated Thank you for the response Sean! I have learned so much from your videos😁
His LLC owns one of the properties and pays rent, utilities, and staging costs at the others. The LLC gets 100% of the revenue from 7 of the listings. They are single family homes though not an apartment complex, I forgot to mention that part. The company made about $210k on our bookings since I started back in September of last year. During that time I’ve taken on just about everything mentioned above.
Why do you recommend of not using a co-host. ?
Because you get to keep all the money if you do it yourself
I am using AirBnb's professional tools and most of the categories are running steady month over month *except* the number of page views is down drastically. My first page impression rate is constant and wish list addition is still good. My "search to listing conversion" rate remains high and my "listing to booking conversion rate" is higher in the last 30 days than it has ever been in previous months. It seems that if I am not ending up in search results, it is because of people searching by price range. Does that sound right?
Great information! TY
Happy to give it!
Hi Sean- I have never scaled as you have, however have had 20 year experience in STRs. Guesthouse on our property in Los Gatos CA starting 2001 on VRBO (one of the first in the south bay) was Premier 5* 130+ reviews, then started with Airbnb in 2011 became Superhost. Now I live in Reno, NV and have started again - family property in Incline Village, NV. Am on both platforms - Airbnb and VRBO. Can't complain, since starting in July I'm booked through mid-September. All bookings so far have been Airbnb - I think that is because my history carried, showed I was an 'Experienced Host'. However nothing with VRBO - why do they not acknowledge a host's history as Airbnb does? Interestingly however, once I got 3 reviews on Airbnb - that 'Experienced Host' (in the top 3 items in the listing) went away ;-/ I am going to check out your channel - thanks so much for the helpful info!
what if, you're not getting bookings even with aggressive discounts...like 0 bookings
Great advice...but Sean what is that distracting background music?
How many times a week does your cleaning crew come in? Every day, every other day, once a week?
They only come and clean on checkouts
I send the cleaner in every 3 days. Its good for the guests and good for me
Great video Sean :)
My pleasure. Hope it helps
Hi Sean,
I really need your help and guru wisdom with this one.
I recently just bought a new property to rent out via Airbnb, but I launched my listing too soon while the previous owner still had her listing online. This probably caused airbnb to ban my account and now I have been waiting for more than a week to get a response from them... But they didnt give me any feedback or response. Can you PLEASE advice me what to do now?
Greetings
Are you in communication with them via email?
@@AirbnbAutomated no I am not, i called them. And I dont have their email. They said they would escalate it. But never responded. Even after calling 5-6 times…
For things like this I’ve gotten the best results emailing someone from their trust and safety department
Email will allow you to attach documents showing a change of ownership in the property
Ah thanks, do you have the email for me, i cant get on airbnb since I have a IP ban
Hello Everyone, I am new here and I've been watching his videos. I want to start Airbnb an empty room I have. My question is I would only like to open it up to Women only since I live alone, good idea or bad idea? I've never Airbnb before
That's sexist.
I noticed my loft of 3 years (Atlanta) has slowed down in bookings. Not so much the number of bookings (occupancy rate) but the lead time has diminished greatly. Bookings come only a couple of days out now (0-3 days), as opposed to a week or more. Also, Atlanta is over saturated causing lower nightly rates, to compete.
are you in tulum holistika?
You caught me!
Multi platform is 🔥🔥
Thanks ❤❤
Airbnb is pushing long term stays and I followed their suggestion and then I’m not able to find myself in searches again after the 30 days
Anyone else??
No stream?
Fixed!
I lost my Super Host over one rating! I totally gave up on that. Super frustrating! Whatever!
can you bring back the intro music i miss it
I would need to make a new brand/logo reel.
I will try to make something cool
@@AirbnbAutomated i couldn't even tell you what it was, i'm the type to have my finger over the L key, reading to skip 10secs forward to avoid all the waffle. smart youtubers know that a long intro is outdated. Even a teaser just annoys me, there's NO need to have a teaser on a 7min vid, esp when there's probably only 5mins of actual good content.
Verbo sucks they hidd my listing with no explanation and customer service has not helped or told me why at all.
This better be a fixer up your taping from lol
We got worst house in vrbo. Didn’t look at all like in pictures. Customer service sucks
Vrbo can advertise but if their customer service is so awful then what’s the point? Airbnb is much better at customer service.
Really appreciate the Great info! Unfortunately background music in video is horribly distracting.
Text on photos is against Airbnb polices.
It’s still working.
The reason for no text is to prevent moving people off airbnb
@@AirbnbAutomated No risk of ban? 😬
You should see what people are posting in their photos. Some are nothing but text. But what’s not getting banned are innocent bits of text
Getting more distinguished with those grey hairs. You’ll be the new Grant Cardone soon
Oh no….
First 🙏
The stream issue is fixed
Maybe steer clear of the phrase "owning your people".
Great stuff. Thank you
No stream?
Yeah weird. UA-cam bug
@@AirbnbAutomated video isn’t playing for me either
Fixed