3 Reasons to Consider Using an Airbnb Management Company
1. Swarmed With Guest Communication -- It can be tough to stay caught up on the emails and questions you are getting from incoming, current and outgoing guests. As much as you want to believe you wrote your listing perfectly and there will be no questions, that just simply isn’t true. Your guests are the most important part of this thing and you need to be able to answer their questions quickly and accurately no matter what. The worst thing is for you not to have time to answer the many questions you will inevitably get and end up with a poor review that is hard to bounce back from.
2. It’s a Lot of Cleaning -- What is one of the most important factors in the guest experience? Cleanliness! There might not be anything more important. If you want to get a negative review, don’t make the bed or clean the bathrooms before a new guest checks in. To do it right, you need to hire a company that has the supplies and resources to blow the guest away. If your Airbnb is performing well, you are going to be doing a lot of cleaning. Ask yourself if that’s something you want to spend time doing or if you want to let someone else do it so you can hang with your family or watch the big game!
3. Listings Are Hard to Make Good -- Your listing on Airbnb is super important. It is your first chance to blow potential guests away. Your title should stand out, you should have good reviews, you should have professinoal-quality pictures, and you should have a ton of quality information about the home. Airbnb has certain things they like to see and certain things they don’t like to see. It’s important to be noticed by people looking to stay in your city, and your listing is how you attract them to your specific home. You want to continue to improve your listing so you can show up higher and higher on the search results. You can absolutely learn how to do this. There are a ton of articles out there that will help. Or, you could hire a company that has already figured it out to do for you.
There is no doubt that you can run your own Airbnb and have success. You could also become a doctor and learn how to perform knee surgery on yourself, but there are some things that just might make more sense letting someone with experience do. Regardless, it’s up to you to decide how much time and effort you want to put into your Airbnb. If you are looking for some help, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@seconddoor.com.