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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We use Airbnb all the time and are so glad hosts like you are out there!

- How many nights per week or month is it usually rented out?

- How much net profit do you make?

- How do you coordinate cleaning between guests if you yourself are out of town?

- What has been the positive biggest surprise about being a host? Most negative surprise?

- It sounds like you have had mostly good experiences. Any red flags you'd warn either other hosts OR guests about to watch out for from listings or guests? [/quote]

- In warm months, we are booked almost every night.

- We do everything ourselves, so our only costs are for consumables -- cleaning products, soap/shampoo, coffee/tea and laundry costs -- and we charge a $25 cleaning fee that more than covers that. So pretty much 100% profit.

- I block dates when we are out of town, so we don't have guests then

- Biggest positive surprise has been how nice people are, how much they respect the place, and how nice it feels to have people telling you what a great place you live in almost every day.

- Biggest negative surprise has been how truly hairy people are.

- We made some adjustments to our requirements based on early experiences. We require verification, we have a strict cancellation policy, we bumped the cleaning fee and we stopped allowing pets. Where we are, many people travel with their dogs and we are animal lovers, but we had one too many bad experiences where people didn't clean up after their dogs outside and let them pee inside.

- We allow instant booking but only with several days' notice. Before we did that, we had a couple of same-day inquiries that gave me pause -- people that just seemed...off. I decided that if you can't plan ahead where you're going to stay tonight, you can stay at a motel. I prefer people who have a plan.

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