Any AirBnB owners here?

[bennno]

2gins said:

bennno said:

Between 18 and 23%, depends on how much or how little you want to use it versus have them rent it out, however whilst their fee is quite high airbnb do lump a reasonably large charge on top of the booking so it’s all swings and roundabouts if you work back from customer price.

When we went live last summer we sold 16 weeks within about 2 hours of the property going live on their website.

Sykes professionally photograph your property, create advert, you just need to be careful to set rates where you want them and not give them control over discounting etc. Our 3 bed property is already fully booked from start of Feb to late October with 30% deposits taken, it was only empty in Jan as we’d been solid since June, including over Christmas and new year and we wanted some time to refurbish / spruce it up.

AirBnB state 3% paid by the host, and 14% paid by the guest. Is that not the case? I did look at it and ....

About right, but ignore whose paying what, it’s all in the end customer price. So it’s 17% Airbnb or 18% in my case with Sykes.

I believe Airbnb % is increased if you want stringent cancellation terms etc as per Sykes.

[GreatGranny]

We are still pretty busy.

Large amount of bookings have come in over the last 2-3 weeks.

We have been booked up for Feb, March is 30%, April 80%, May 50% mainly long weekends, June 70%, July & Aug 95%.

Not many issues, shower broke over Christmas so I had to drive there on Boxing Day, managed to get a plumber out same day and he fitted a new thermostat. Apart from that all ok.
We now use a friend for cleaning, who, along with her partner have moved to North Norfolk permanently.
She cleans for a few properties and also manages a few with the intention of taking on staff when the season gets busy.
They also have an AirBNB place near to ours so it's always interesting to compare bookings.

I would think we will clear about £12-14k this year.