478. Hosting Hotline: How Should You Handle TVs and Streaming Services in Your Rental?
Thanks For Visiting
Airbnb Superhosts Annette Grant & Sarah Karakaian
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
is week on the Hosting Hotline, Amy from Canada calls in with a common (but often overlooked) question: How should short-term rental hosts handle TVs and streaming services?
We dive into:
- Where you should place TVs in your rental (and why it matters)
- Which streaming services to offer—and what to avoid
- Smart tips to protect guest privacy and your own subscriptions
- Operational systems for checking logins, batteries, and connectivity
- How your STR's brand and guest profile should influence your entertainment setup
Whether you're running a cozy cabin or a large vacation rental, this episode will help you create a seamless, secure, and thoughtful guest experience around your in-home entertainment setup.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Thanks for Visiting Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | We believe hosting with Hart is at the core of every short-term rental. |
| 0:12.4 | With Annette's background in business operation and Sarah's extensive hospitality |
| 0:17.1 | management and interior design experience, we have welcomed thousands of guests from over 30 countries, |
| 0:23.3 | earning us over a million dollars and garnering us thousands of five-star reviews. We love sharing |
| 0:29.5 | creative ways for your listing to stand out, serve your guests, and be profitable. Each episode, |
| 0:35.8 | we will have knowledgeable guests who bring value to the short-term rental industry. |
| 0:39.8 | Or we will share our stories of our own experiences so you can implement actual improvements to your rentals. |
| 0:46.5 | Whether you're experienced, new, or nervous to start your own short-term rental, we promise you'll feel right at home. |
| 1:05.5 | Thank you. your own short-term rental, we promise you'll feel right at home. Hello, welcome back to the great episode. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Sarah Caracan. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm Annette Grant, and together we are. Thanks for visiting. And name is Sarah Caracan. I'm Annette Grant and together we are. Thanks for |
| 1:12.3 | visiting. And this is the hosting hotline. If you want to get your hosting questions answered |
| 1:17.2 | here on the hosting hotline, go to hosting hotline.com, ask your question and we'll answer it here on the |
| 1:23.7 | podcast and you will help so many other hosts across the globe. Today we are going to |
| 1:30.1 | help Amy. Hi, Sarah and Annette. My name is Amy and I'm calling from Canada. Thank you so much |
| 1:37.7 | for all of your amazing hosting advice that you share. I've listened to every episode of your podcast |
| 1:43.7 | and I've been hosting for three your podcast and I've been hosting for |
| 1:46.4 | three years now and I owe a lot of my five-star reviews to you. I wanted to ask how you handle |
| 1:55.5 | TVs and streaming services in your short-term rentals. What kind of TVs or streaming devices do you use? |
| 2:04.8 | Do you provide live TV or just offer streaming platforms? Do you put TVs in every bedroom or is it |
| 2:12.4 | just in a certain space? And how do you streamline the experience while keeping things secure like avoiding guests |
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