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After this weekend, I’ll be just one stay away from the Superhost status. Really excited about it. How much would the superhost status help me in terms of future rankings and bookings? Right now I’m still only on the 2nd page when you search my area with 16+ guests without specifying a date range. I’m hoping the superhost status can bump me up into 1st page.
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Being a Superhost certainly cant hurt. I think price will affect where you are on search more than anything.
What is your competition when searching for a place for 10+ people? I assume there are few of these places. Thats a giant Airbnb.
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Specifying just my town name and 16+ people (yes, max number you can enter as a search criteria in Airbnb), you end up with 127 homes! If you move the map a little bit to just include the core vacation area, then the number goes down to 90. THAT’S A LOT OF COMPETITIONS!
What I do notice is that almost all superhosts’ properties are listed on the 1st page of the search result.
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People on your area either have REALLY BIG HOMES or are just shoving multiple bunk beds into every corner of a regular house. When I see “sleeps 16”, I usually read “flop house” unless its a mansion.
Sleeping 16 people is a challenge in most houses. You’d need at least three full bathrooms to make it possible for 16 people to live together. Do these paces all have a table where 16 people can eat together? Are there rooms where 16 people can all sit on couches and watch a move together?
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Most of the chalets in my area were purposefully built as vacation rentals 40-50 years ago. I have a 12-foot-long harvest table that can actually sit big group of people down to eat together. (A group just rented my place for a weekend in the upcoming ski season because my table is the larger than others.) There are two “living rooms” on two different floors. The only real challenge could be the bathroom setup. My chalet only had two bathrooms all on the ground level. Maybe I’ll add another bathroom later when the town connects sewer to our street.
There are a few very nice luxury chalets built in the past few years. They have 8 bedrooms and 6 baths. That’s more like a modern up-to-date design.
These chalets serve a very niche market that’s different from most other vacation rentals. And it’s quite a mature market existed long before VRBO and Airbnb came into place.
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Makes sense. The huge houses in our area that can sleep 12+ are two kinds:
–regular cabins where they jam sofa beds and bunk beds everywhere. It’s more like camping inside.
–or they are actually giant chalet homes that have eight bedrooms and four baths like you mention. Those houses can rent for $800+ a night. -
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$100K renovation won’t get my investment back in a year if I can only raise the rent by $100/night because our chalet is mainly just rented out for weekends. I’d be happy to rent out 50 weekends a year. That’s only 100 nights, or $10K a year.
My place is already in the market, so it’s hard for me to pull it off the market to do big renovation like you guys did to your rentals. We usually do smaller scale renovation during low-seasons (Spring & Fall).
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Congratulations on the Superhost status, ironman! That’s exciting. I so look forward to just getting people in my place. I would love to say that I will be listing within the next month, but that would be ambitious. If I had a crew, it would be possible. It’s not easy to find dependable help. I had the chimney flue put in and those guys worked really hard I will say. Apparently, I had small amounts of carbon monoxide leaking for years with the setup I had. So relieved to have that taken care of and behind me. Hopefully the last of the major repairs.
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