If your bookings have slowed and you set up PriceLabs by connecting your listings, keeping the default PriceLabs settings, and trusting the software to take it from there, your settings are the first place to look. A couple of those defaults give away money on bookings you would have gotten anyway, and the settings that […]

If your goal is to reach $100K from hosting and you’re starting with one property, most of the advice out there points to the same move, which is buying more properties. We’d do something different. We would start an Airbnb co-hosting business, managing other owners’ properties with the same skills you already use every day […]

If you decide whether it was a good month by checking your bank balance after your Airbnb payouts land, you are running your hosting business on feelings. We see it constantly, including with hosts who own multiple properties and have been at this for years, and it is the reason so many of them cannot […]

6 Mistakes Costing You Reservations If your calendar has more open dates than you’re used to, you’ve probably already lowered your price, and you’ve probably already told yourself the market is just slow right now. Sometimes that’s true. But after auditing more than a thousand listings, we keep finding the same six problems behind an […]

Airbnb checkout chores are the top complaint driving guests to hotels, and here’s how to fix yours. Airbnb hosts are going viral on TikTok right now, and not for their design or their hospitality. Guests are filming Airbnb checkout chores, locked thermostats, and passive-aggressive house rules, and the comment sections are full of one line: […]

Short-term rental is not passive income. It takes more decisions per week than being a landlord, more seasonality to plan around, and more that can go sideways on any given Tuesday. That work is also the reason a well-run Airbnb builds wealth faster than almost any other real estate strategy available to a first-time investor. […]