Are you the owner or future owner of a short-term rental property? Our Airbnb concierge agency offers you today to discover how to approach your rental management project and how to put your apartment under rental management in a serene way and start your collaboration with your agency in the best conditions.
This article is written in collaboration with Alexandra, director of our Airbnb concierge in Bordeaux.
Make an inventory of your Airbnb rental:
Before contacting your future Airbnb agency, it will be useful for you to take stock of your Airbnb rental project and compile the information available to you. These will be useful to your agency but will also be as many key indicators that can help you take some distance and better assess your property on its market, its potential, its advantages and its shortcomings. To do this, you can, for example, ask yourself the following questions:
- What are the qualities of my accommodation?
- What are its flaws?
- What is its actual profitability and its estimated profitability?
- Are there similar properties on the market?
- What differentiates my property from others?
- Is my ad visible and optimized on the web?
- How can I improve the perception of my accommodation?
- How much time should I devote to it each day / week / month?
- What do I expect from my Airbnb rental management agency?
Answering these few questions objectively and rationally will allow you first of all to better understand your motivations for calling on an agency, but also to make an overall inventory of your project. Each of the following points will allow you to take stock of your investment project and will be a key indicator in the choice of your future service provider to improve your rental income, your peace of mind and your daily quality of life. Next comes the agency selection stage.
Contact the concierge agencies near your accommodation:
It goes without saying that by nature, your airbnb concierge must be close to the accommodation in question. Ideally, your future agency should be located in the city itself, at least in one of the neighboring cities or easily accessible by car to facilitate the daily management of arrivals, departures, cleaning, etc. Depending on your sector , you can find a wide choice of agencies or conversely have only a few different options. The main thing for you at this stage is to choose one or more agencies capable of responding to your problems, of proposing prices consistent with the offer offered and which can a priori meet all your expectations.
We suggest that you contact agencies specializing in the management of seasonal rentals. Many residential rental management agencies or real estate agencies also offer seasonal rental services but are generally to be avoided: your project is not that of your neighbor and choosing an agency specializing in the field will put you on the right track to find a service provider capable of managing your rentals under the best conditions for a fruitful long-term partnership.
From the first discussions with the airbngb concierge agencies selected, do not hesitate to ask for details on the nature of the services offered, their limits and the way the agency operates. It is important to understand the service that will actually be provided and what it will cost you each month. in this sense, ask that your agency make a prior estimate of your rental income for the year. You will thus have a complete view of the perception of your property by your future agency and what it considers possible in terms of rental income for you.
Note that all YourHostHelper agencies offer an estimate of rental income over 1 year by default. It is for you the insurance to control your investment but also to check the correspondence of your project with the capacities of your Airbnb agency.
Discuss at length and benefit from the know-how of your rental management concierge:
Each exchange with your concierge and rental management agency should be an opportunity to develop interest in your property for seasonal rental. For this, your interlocutor will be an inexhaustible resource of good advice to gradually and at a lower cost develop the interest of Internet users and online travelers the interest in your accommodation. By asking for advice and applying it as much as possible, you will remain an actor in your project and will have less the feeling of completely letting go of the controls. Conversely, your concierge agency must advise you on a daily basis and be a trusted contact for everything related to your Airbnb rental.
Putting your apartment under rental management is a big step to take, but by approaching it step by step, you should avoid the main pitfalls and manage to find the service provider you can trust, capable of meeting your needs, your expectations and improving your rental income to obtain a real win-win agreement. For the most curious and those who wish to see further into the world of concierge and management of Airbnb rentals, we invite you to read the latest article in our dossier: How to get started in concierge services? You can also find the previous articles of our file on Airbnb concierge services:
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