921: How to Get More Airbnb Bookings This Spring and Summer Break

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Wondering how to get more bookings on Airbnb as spring break and summer vacation inch closer? With some expert tips, you’ll be able to bring in more revenue and higher reviews during these peak travel times. From listing optimizations to algorithm-beating description tweaks and amenities that’ll make your short-term rental stand out, using any of these expert tips can help your single short-term rental or short-term rental portfolio see more bookings flow in! We’ve already got a short-term rental expert on the show, Rob Abasolo. But one isn’t enough. Avery Carl is back to give her time-tested tips on boosting your Airbnb bookings during the spring break and summer vacation seasons. These two full-time vacation rental investors get into how to make more money with last-minute bookings, why you MUST change your pictures before it’s too late, the description tweaks that can lead to a full calendar, and the “low-hanging fruit” amenities that guests LOVE to see! Plus, since it’s spring break, these experts give their best tips on how to avoid parties at your property and stop your short-term rental from becoming a spring break rager! In This Episode We Cover: Why you need to start preparing your short-term rental for spring and summer break NOW When to start raising rates on last-minute guests (HUGE revenue boost) What you MUST include in your listing before it’s spring/summer break Amenities that any host can add to their home to bring in more bookings Why seasonal photos make a huge difference to guests when browsing properties How to avoid parties at your property and guest red flags to watch out for Airbnb’s indoor camera ban and what to do if you have security cameras on your property And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch Join BiggerPockets for FREE Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area Expand Your Investing Knowledge With the BiggerPockets Books Be a Guest on the BiggerPockets Podcast Hear Our Interview with AirDNA’s Jamie Lane AirDNA PriceLabs David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's X/Twitter Rob's YouTube BiggerPockets' Instagram Book Mentioned in the Show: Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth by Avery Carl Connect with Avery: Avery's BiggerPockets Profile Avery's Facebook Avery's Instagram Avery's LinkedIn Avery's Website Check out more resources from this show on https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-921 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show 921.
0:05.0	What's going on everyone? This is David Green, your host of the Bigger
0:07.6	Pocket's Real Estate Podcast.
0:09.0	Joined today by my good buddy, Rob Abbasolo.
0:12.2	Rob, have you been noticing the weather changing lately?
0:14.8	Um you never know what you're gonna get in Houston man sometimes it's 80 sometimes it's
0:19.5	cold yesterday was 44 and like today it's like I don't know 70 so I'm just like I don't
0:24.8	know Houston pick one stay cold it's too hot here I hate it all I hate the Houston
0:29.7	weather how about you David it's been warm it been nice. It hasn't been raining which is crazy because California never rains but this winter it's been dumping rain on us but I finally got a little bit of sun yesterday and you know what that means? What? Means it's spring break and summer
0:43.6	vacations are right around the corner and this is the pre-game or the get ready time
0:48.5	for our short-term rental operators. Yep and today we're going to be talking about how to optimize your short-term rentals for spring break and summer vacations.
0:56.4	We're going to be bringing on Avery Carl, a beloved author of Bigger Pockets who wrote the book on STRs to have this discussion so let's get into it.
1:04.4	Yeah the today's show is awesome we give maybe more actionable device than we've done on a
1:08.4	podcast in years so this is when you definitely want to listen to twice and take notes on and if you love it,
1:13.6	please go give us a good review wherever you listen to your podcast.
1:16.8	Make sure you listen all the way to the end because Rob has a very unique and individual pronunciation of a very carol, individual pronunciation of a very popular Hawaiian destination
1:26.0	and you don't want to miss it.
1:28.0	Avery Carl, welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast.
1:32.0	Let's get into this thing.
1:33.0	All right.
1:34.0	Tell me a little bit about what you see coming for peak season in the short-term rental space.
1:37.0	So it's a pretty general question, but you know what we see to be real about it is we're going to see a lot of broken toilets, leaks, things that need to be fixed so you really need to make sure that you have your boots on the ground and your vendors ready to go because you don't really have time in short-term
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