Dave put a lot of time and effort into renovating this cute house in Alderson West Virginia for people to Airbnb. Our advice is to clean up his photos and listing just a tad to really show off what he's done. Thanks Dave!
Time to take a taste of our own medicine and critique Ryanne's newest Airbnb! Lots of little tweaks have already happened since this video was made, but more to come. Check out the Kikkerland first aid kits, and the very handy USB charging station that all your guests will want and love you for.
This episode we chose a WINNER for our Design Advice Giveaway (Jordan!) and recorded a Two Part Video giving him advice for his fabulous Airbnb in upstate New York. Check out his Airbnb HERE.
We cover ideas for each room and below are links to all of the items we suggested in Part One for his spaces. We always encourage second-hand and low-cost solutions for brightening and updating your short-term rentals. For clients we put together ideas to purchase or look for in your buying/hunting, and this gives you an idea of how that might work. See our Advice Services HERE.
We finished the renovation. Pop the champagne (or apple cider)! Check it out. We even have a bunch of bookings already. Feels great! See below for some before and after photos. Wow, what a job that was.
We are currently traveling for 30 days in Scandinavia before a video job in Vienna. We have been able to find a couple great people in our area to clean our rental while we're gone. We simply plug in a new Data SIM (Cell Hire has worked in every country we've been in, it's great) and communicate with any guests and our cleaners. This is the dream. Hope we can maintain it with a second rental.
We want to know what you want to hear from this podcast if we continue making it. We took a long break doing updates while we finished the house and wanted to do an update. Is this still interesting to you? Hope your rentals are rockin!
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It's been a while since we've posted. Why? TAXES. No big deal, but as
anyone who's self-employed knows, taxes can be as surprising part of not
having an employer who automatically deducts taxes out of paychecks.The great news is that we're all caught up now.
But this also meant
taking a couple months off from the renovation on our second rental. We
plan to pick up again in May and hopefully finish as quick as possible.
As stressful as running our own businesses can be, we enjoy being able
to strategize where we put our energy and money.
Spring
is finally here and that means the beginning of rental season for us
since we live in a vacation area. We're experimenting with our prices
again this year to see what the market will bear. It's always a balance
between getting a fair price for your place and keeping the calendar
booked. We're also hoping guests enjoy the upgrades to the Farmhouse
that we did over the winter. Always doing little improvements keeps us
engaged in our place.
We also started an Instagram account to show off our places and connect and promote other local businesses. Follow us and we'll do the same!
We can officially say stage two of our renovation is done. Now on to the final touches which include putting the floors down, painting, final electric and plumbing installation, trim/baseboards. Oh yeah we need to build the kitchen and furnish the whole place! That's the fun part though. See photos below of the state of the house as of last weekend. We now have drywall up and mudded as of today.
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