The Vacation Rental Bible: Proven Tips to Find, Manage & Market Vacation Rental …

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Have you ever dreamed of owning a vacation property that pays for itself? In today’s market, platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo have made this not only possible, but easy to execute successfully. Already own a rental property? This book can teach you how to analyze your financial performance, study your competition, and improve your guest relations to improve your profitability.
You’ll learn how to:
– Find a suitable property
– Build a budget (including downloadable Excel sample budgets)
– Prepare for rental guests
– Create and maintain your online listing
– Manage income and cash flow
Additional Topics
This book also provides guides on how to earn 5-star reviews, maximize search engine optimization, deal with difficult guests, and even includes a bonus chapter on improving your real estate photography. Whether you list on Airbnb, Vrbo, Homeaway, or through a professional property manager or even your own website, the tips and tricks in this book can help you take management of your property to the next level.

From the Publisher

A Comprehensive Guide to Vacation Rental Property Evaluation, Acquisition & Management

Features: Comprehensive Downloadable Budget Template Finding a Property Analyzing Performance Building your Listings Managing Guests Contingency Planning

This approachable text is ideal for those brand new to the business as well as seasoned investors. Whether you’re looking to purchase your first property or grow your existing portfolio, this book provides valuable insight into how to improve your business model and drive both top-line & bottom-line performance.

Plan your Property

The front end of managing rental property is the most confusing – finding ideal properties, predicting cash flows and performance, budgeting, obtaining permits, and finding help (cleaners, maintenance, and other staff).

We’ll demystify all of this for you in plain English, identifying areas to focus on to make sure you’re entering this business with eyes wide open.

Execute your Business Model

Once you’re ready to go, we’ll walk you through the steps required to get your new property onto the vacation rental marketplace, from selecting furnishings, photographing your property, writing search engine optimized copy, creating favorable property listings, and getting ready for your first guests. We’ll also walk you through welcoming those first guests, handling the problematic guests, and building positive feedback. You’ll gain the confidence to tackle these things yourself, as well as the knowledge of how to outsource the pieces you don’t want to self-manage.

Find a Property

Evaluate a broader location, choose a neighborhood, then drill down to the specific property that’s right for you. Learn to identify what makes selecting an Airbnb property different than selecting your own home, and how to properly choose a property that will cash flow for you.

Evaluate Financials

This book includes a free, downloadable Excel spreadsheet budget template. No login or personal information required! This spreadsheet comes pre-populated with all the financials for one of the author’s recent properties, so you can see real-world data, update it with your own data and compare to how the author’s property performs. You’ll also learn how to budget your expenses and income and level-load your cash flow.

Furnish your Property

Furnishing for rental properties is different than furnishing for your home. This book will teach you the difference and explain where to spend your money vs. where you can scale back. The author’s wealth of experience will help you set up vacation rentals that feel like home for your guests, and will give you ideas on items you should include in your property, as well as those you’ll want to skip.

Get Rental Ready

Includes chapters on real estate photography, building our your Airbnb and Vrbo listings, writing compelling copy, marketing your property, optimizing SEO, and getting your property launched. After your launch, you’ll learn how to prepare for guests, handle difficult guests, solicit feedback and reviews, and grow your rental business.

New from Valentine State Publications! Check out our Vacation Rental / Airbnb Guest Books, the ideal way for your guests to leave comments, available in beautiful, durable hardcover books, or economical paperback options.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 143 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1651318212
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1651318218
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #512,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #51 in Bed & Breakfast Travel Reference (Books) #991 in Real Estate (Books)
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