476. Hosting Hotline: Is Dynamic Pricing Worth It for Just One Seasonal Property?
Thanks For Visiting
Airbnb Superhosts Annette Grant & Sarah Karakaian
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Hosting Hotline, we're shaking things up by answering a listener question from the comments section of our YouTube channel. The question? Whether using a dynamic pricing tool like PriceLabs is really worth it if you only have one seasonal property.
Spoiler alert: our answer is a resounding yes—and we’re breaking down why.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What PriceLabs is and how it compares to Airbnb's Smart Pricing
- Why dynamic pricing is essential for seasonal properties
- How a $20/month investment can yield huge returns
- How to use data to compete more effectively in your local market
- The top reason every host should prioritize a pricing tool in their tech stack
Even if your booking calendar only gets busy for part of the year, having smart, data-informed pricing can help you make every single night count—and ultimately, bring in more revenue with less guesswork.
If you're curious about dynamic pricing, we’ve got a full video that walks you through how to use PriceLabs and why it works.
📺 Watch our YouTube video on dynamic pricing
Drop your questions in the comments and your topic might be featured in a future episode!
Resources mentioned:
PriceLabs – Dynamic pricing tool we personally use and recommend. Offers a free trial (no credit card required).
Thanks for Visiting YouTube Channel – Subscribe and leave your hosting questions in the comments.
Hosting Handbook – Learn the basics of how to launch your listing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Thanks for Visiting Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | We believe hosting with Heart is at the core of every short-term rental. |
| 0:12.8 | With Annette's background in business operation. |
| 0:15.1 | And Sarah's extensive hospitality management and interior design experience, we have welcomed |
| 0:20.3 | thousands of guests from over 30 |
| 0:22.3 | countries earning us over a million dollars and garnering us thousands of five-star reviews. |
| 0:27.9 | We love sharing creative ways for your listing to stand out, serve your guests, and be profitable. |
| 0:34.9 | Each episode, we will have knowledgeable guests who bring value to the short-term rental industry. |
| 0:39.4 | Or we will share our stories of our own experiences so you can implement actual improvements to your rentals. |
| 0:46.4 | Whether you're experienced, new, or nervous to start your own short-term rental, |
| 0:51.2 | we promise you'll feel right at home. |
| 1:04.7 | Thank you. your own short-term rental, we promise you'll feel right at home. Hello, welcome back to another great episode. My name is Sarah Caracan. I'm in at Grant, |
| 1:09.3 | and together we are. Thanks for visiting. And this is the hosting hotline. Okay. We're doing the hosting hotline a little different today. You scared me. I know. But I still want you all to know that you can go to hosting hotline.com, ask your hosting question and get it answered on the Tuesday podcast episodes. But today we are mixing it up. |
| 1:28.5 | We are. |
| 1:29.4 | We're going to continue to do this, I think. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah, because if you have not been around the last however many videos, |
| 1:39.6 | we want you to subscribe to our YouTube channel. |
| 1:44.6 | And today's question is a question posed in the comments of a YouTube video. |
| 1:52.3 | Yes. |
| 1:52.6 | And we, we're just going to share with you. |
| 1:55.5 | On YouTube, you can ask us questions and we can respond to you. |
| 1:59.0 | Just like we can hosting a hotline here and we |
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