Airbnb Arbitrage

The greatest tool an Airbnb host can have is high demand, as such use several tools and proprietary techniques to find you the areas with  the highest demand and least saturations. While most people are still using AirDNA, we have evolved well beyond that into the cutting edge of market research in short-term family rentals. By staying ahead of the market we're able to capitalize on high revenue listings before it becomes too saturated like places such as Orlando FL. 

We work with our net work of real estate professionals and investors to find several available listings and negotiate the rents, and leasing terms on your behalf. Typically we negotiate 6, 12, 18 or 24 month leases based on location and demand. This is all done by our team behind the scenes. We reach out to you once we have locked in the lease term and monthly rent. 

This program is special in that it requires much less capital to get started. In this case all the investor needs is the security deposit and first month's rent (sometimes two months rent) which is paid directly to the landlord. We do not collect payments on behalf of the landlord. 

As a client we also assist the interior design of your new investment property. We connect you directly to our very own interior designer which you will have access to until your design is complete. This service is already included, however it does not cover staging or the cost of any furniture or decoration items. 

This is where we see more hosts drop the ball. Quality pictures can LITERALLY make or break your entire business. This is not the area you want to slide under the rug. Sometimes Airbnb will provide quality photographers, sometimes they do not. You don't get much of a say. To mitigate the risk, we hired our very own photographer from Airbnb who will be in touch with your photographer guiding them on the settings, lense type and angles to make sure the best images are captured of your property. There is delicate balance of wide angle lenses, saturation and aperture settings that photographers seem to understand between themselves. This will make you THOUSANDS of dollars when done properly. 

This is where we make this business as passive as possible by building your A-Team. We research the best cleaning, landscaping, repair, plumbing, electrical and pool companies in the area to make sure all possible items are taken care of in the event maintenance is required. Often, hosts wait until an issues arises before building their  team, by being proactive with primary and secondary options in place, you will be able to have a piece of mind with any issues that may arise. 

There are 3 major booking platforms, Airbnb, VRBO and booking.com. Good rule is thumb is keep as many reservations as possible on a single platform and only move into a second platform in the event bookings are slow. We cover all three but will primary focus on Airbnb at first with VRBO being the second option and booking.com being the last resort.  In the event we need to expand to other platforms we do handle the complete page setup, message templates, media upload, visitors guide and best practices for each platform should you choose to self manage. 

Once we have found you a property, designed, staged and listed it on Airbnb, we typically rollover the property into our ongoing management services for 20% of monthly revenue. All the management services can be found here.