anyone have Airbnb rental experience from owners perspective
 

Considering getting a rental prop and debating to do Long or short term. Anyone have experience with either that they care to share?

Personally no. Know a chick in Chicago with a big ass house that rents out multiple rooms and that's her full time job and she's happy but she's there as well so little safer.

Renting out something and your not gonna be there could get trashed but they do offer...

https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee

if that makes ya feel any better.

I wouldn't let a stranger live in my house for a grand a day.

Yeah but that's because you don't want to let anyone see what's really going on in there Norman.

I'd buy a house next to a college and only rent to college hotties. I'd fill the night stand with sex toys and a fridge full of alcohol. Questionnaire would be along the lines of...

1) Do you drink?
2) Do you like cock?
3) Do you swallow cock?
4) Are you a nudist?
5) Would you like to be a nudist?
etc...

Approved :thumbsup

Or touching my stuff. I'm a germ and neat freak.

Florida State? I'm in.

ive got 4 condos downtown chicago that I'm now strictly using for airbnb, about 60% occupancy/month, but making a lot more than when I was renting them out.

did it with apts and condos.. good money from tourists in hollywood

just dont let'em stay beyond 28 days.. they tend to move in and could squat...

i got sick of doing 2 days here n there.. went for the 1 week to 3 week peeps and was doing $169 a night.. sometimes $239 a night for 1BR condo. It depends on the property..
Set the folks up with the basics, even if you just leave the key in a lock box and they get it upon arrival... theres many ways to do it.. but it can pay.. and you've got Airbnb and their insurance as well as the renters CC# in case of damage/theft. Airbnb's pretty good about hooking you up if theres a prob. Good luck.

I've rented and rented out one of my places. I've not had a bad experience yet (knock on wood).

Hmm.. I thought this to be about renting airplanes.

I go through a service that uses Airbnb and it has been pretty good. The big issue that I had about doing it myself is if anything goes wrong, I was out of the country so it was hard to do maintenance. They are not used to the place so they break stuff or goof stuff up. Not a huge deal but irritating.

We have rented a few places with them and its smooth. 99% of the places are exactly whats shown in the photos with no bullshit involved.

Works nice.

If your renting out, be careful but for the most part it seems to be decent pornographers like me. hehehehe