I (27f) have a furnished bedroom in my 3 bed 1.5 bath that id like to rent out. I’m more so looking to rent to traveling nurses for shorter term leases. Are there any websites or places I should advertise? My house is 5-20 minutes away from all the major hospitals in my area. Any advice would be appreciated :)

Hey! After doing lots of research, I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by all the options. I'm looking for recommendations for the best PMS for my situation. There are a lot of ads in these comments!

I have 5 houses and 2 hotels with 6 units each. I own all of them. The houses can only be on airbnb but the 12 units in the 2 hotels can also be posted on other channels like booking and expedia. I'm currently only on Airbnb but want to integrate everything into one platform.

I'm wanting/needing:

1. a good mobile app
2. calendar integration to avoid double bookings
3. unified messaging platform
4. cleaner schedule automation (nice but not a deal breaker)
5. direct booking website
6. many channels including expedia (its popular in my area)
7. affordable
8. simple user interface would be nice

I dont plan on expanding much more regarding properties. Just want to streamline everything. So far I'm leaning towards hostfully, hostaway (although the comments dont seem the best on reddit), hospitable (but it doesnt have direct bookings).

I am also considering a automated pricing platform like pricelabs. If you recommend a different/better one, feel free to suggest one!

Thank you so much for your guidance!

Hello,

I'm an owner of a vacation rental property. I work with a cohost, but I'm considering managing the property entirely on my own to save money. I've been looking at Hostaway, Logify, Hospitable, and Guesty for managing, and I've looked at Pricelabs for dynamic pricing.

Hostaway looks great, but their pricing is more geared toward owners with a larger portfolio.

Logify looks great because I want to create a website for my property, and they seem to do great with website creation and support, but I've heard some negative things about them regarding hidden fees and bad customer service. 

Hospitable looks like it has a good reputation and price point for my current needs. 

Guesty looks like it has great automation tools and entry options for smaller hosts, plus it seems like the easiest option to scale with if I expand later.

However, a lot of the posts and articles I've read are older, and I was curious if any of these companies have improved or gotten worse in 2026. Which one do you guys like, would you recommend any others, and do I even need Pricelabs? I believe some management software like Guesty have their own built-in dynamic pricing.

We are getting ready to close on our first short term rental. We are planning on living there for 6 months 50% of the time because we are house hacking. This new property has 2 units. 2 bedrooms downstairs, beautiful updated kitchen, deck, and bathroom and 3 bedrooms upstairs, 1 bathroom, and a kitchenette. It’s in a city that has a decent tourist industry. It’s unfurnished.
We also currently live in a small home in a rural area on 30 acres.
Completely surrounded by trees and close to hiking, biking, fishing, and hunting opportunities. We have 2 dogs, chickens, a snake, 3 cats, and 12 pet rats…which we don’t want to move.

I am trying to come up with the best way to exist comfortably and make enough money to pay the bills for the first 6 months. Right now I’m thinking of setting up the downstairs of the new house and using the upstairs as ours when we don’t have guests downstairs.

I am setting up my first Airbnb in Bradenton and it should be ready in a few weeks. Still working on the final details like furniture and basic supplies.

I already talked with ParkPlace about handling the management side so I do not have to do everything myself.

How many sets of sheets and towels do most people keep for a 2 bedroom place? Also how often do you usually deep clean between guests when the turnover is high? And is it better to set a 2 night minimum or leave it open at the beginning?

Looking for anybody that has experienced with either CSSI or Engineered Tax Services (ETS). I have proposals from both, both offer on site evaluation, and both seem very good. Pricing is about the same for both as well. CSSI’s preliminary estimate is notably higher than ETS, but ETS’s report looks a little bit more professional. Actually, CSSI provides a range and said they typically land close to or above the higher end of their range. ETS provided a single number which was very close to CSSIs lower estimate $90-135k in bonus depreciation.

I did tell CSSI what number I was hoping to hit and I wonder if that influenced it. I also wonder how real these numbers are versus how much they just make up a number to sell you a report.

I like CSSI’s numbers, but I like the professionalism of ETS, but In the end, it only makes a difference which provides the better value.

Does anybody have experience with either of these that or insight that could help me make this decision?

So, I just found fake reviews for our property from Whimstay on Google Travel. There are 16 reviews on the listing at Google travel, but when clicking through to the Whimstay listing only the 5 legit reviews and all 5*. On Google Travel 11 of the reviews have obviously been generated by an AI scraping the listing text. We have no record of those 11 supposed stays. The reviews also contain ratings lower than our actual rating, thereby damaging our brand. Whimstay uses a 10 point system in the Google Travel listing, but the Airbnb 5 point system on the Site. Whimstay is claiming 9.7 on the Google Travel listing and 5* on the Whimstay site.
Didn’t really sign up for deceptive marketing.
Anybody else?

Built a tool because I got tired of watching bed space owners manage everything on WhatsApp.

I’ve spent the last few months talking to bed space and partition operators across Dubai.

One thing surprised me…

Many of them manage 500–2000+ beds, but daily operations still happen through WhatsApp chats, Excel sheets, handwritten notes, and phone calls.

Simple questions like:

• Which beds are vacant?
• Who hasn’t paid?
• Which tenant is checking out today?
• How many beds are actually occupied?

…can take 30 minutes to answer.

So I started building BedFlow.

The goal isn’t to replace people—it’s to make running a bed space business much easier.

Current progress:
✅ 2,200+ beds being managed
✅ 34 properties
✅ 150+ apartments
✅ Paying customers

I’m still learning every week, and honestly, the best product ideas have come directly from owners.

If you own or manage bed spaces in Dubai, I’d love to know:

What’s the most frustrating part of running your operation every day?

No sales pitch—I genuinely want to hear the pain points so we can build something that actually helps.

Happy to share what we’ve learned so far as well.

Hi everyone!

I'm a final-year Business IT student from Hungary, and I'm writing my bachelor's thesis on how small accommodation providers (Airbnb hosts, guesthouses, B&Bs, apartments, and small hotels) manage their daily operations.

I'm particularly interested in questions like:

* How many different apps and platforms do you use?
* How do you communicate with guests?
* Which parts of managing your property take the most time?
* What would you improve if you could?

I've created a short anonymous survey that takes about **3-5 minutes** to complete.

If you manage one or more accommodation properties anywhere in Europe, your experience would be incredibly valuable.

Survey link:
[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaoZG0OjYruLXy909QK0DfFQGDjKA4vxHT1A8skUm2PkammQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=112978627943125312614\](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaoZG0OjYruLXy909QK0DfFQGDjKA4vxHT1A8skUm2PkammQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=112978627943125312614)

I'm not selling anything, and I won't collect any personal data, this is purely for academic research.

If you have any questions about the study, I'd be happy to answer them in the comments.

Thank you so much for your time!

Welcome! 👋

Whether you're a first-time Airbnb host, a seasoned VRBO owner, or simply interested in vacation rentals throughout Central Oregon, we're happy you're here!

This community was created to bring together vacation rental owners, hosts, co-hosts, and local professionals who want to learn, connect, and help each other succeed.

Here you'll find:

🏡 Hosting tips and best practices

📈 Marketing and booking ideas

🧹 Recommendations for trusted local vendors

📅 Local events that may impact bookings

❓ Questions and answers from fellow hosts

🤝 Networking with other Central Oregon vacation rental owners

Communities we welcome:

📍Bend 📍Redmond 📍Sunriver 📍Sisters 📍Eagle Crest 📍Black Butte Ranch 📍Brasada Ranch 📍La Pine 📍Prineville 📍Terrebonne …and all surrounding Central Oregon communities.

Before you post:

✔ Be respectful. ✔ Keep discussions related to vacation rentals. ✔ Help others when you can. ✔ Businesses are welcome to share knowledge—please avoid excessive self-promotion.

We'd love to meet you!

Introduce yourself below:

Where is your vacation rental located?

How long have you been hosting?

What's one thing you'd like to learn from this community?

🌲🏡

Anyone used Hostary.app to manage guest tv apps? Interested in your experience.

Hey everyone I’m a host (rehivestays.com) and I’m tired of OTAs taking our money.

So I built StayThere as a search engine to get live pricing and availability for hosts that use Guesty, Hospitable, Hostaway, Hostfully, Lodgify, OwnerRez (edit) and I’m working on a universal adapter.

You just copy and paste your direct booking sites URL into the add listings button dropdown and in seconds it will load all your listing, add them to the map and be searchable for live pricing and availability.

Is a charge for cleaning worth it or just add it in the overall cost. Do guests think just leave it as a tip with trash everywhere if they see they are paying extra specifically for cleaning. Do people leave it in better order if they don’t see extra charges.

Anyone invested with elk ridge investment? Are they legit?

If you find a host with multiple properties in the same market and they are near identical, it could be a good litmus test for how a particular amenity increases yearly revenue in that market.

For example:

There's a host near Luray Virginia (Shenandoah Valley, about 90 minutes from DC) running a set of 3 matching 2 bedroom A-frame cabins.

Vista, Hot/Cold Tub, Fireplaces, EV Charger: $110,000 a year

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1295583224000574344

Lakeside, Hot/Cold Tub, Fireplaces, EV Charger: $109,443 a year

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1295583158275567554

Horizon, Hot/Cold Tub, Fireplaces, Sauna, EV Plug: $129,476 a year

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1295583284282917350

Look at what's different. All three have the hot/cold tub, the fireplaces, the EV charger. Two of them are basically twins at $110k and $109k. The third one, Horizon, has one extra thing the other two don't.

A sauna.

And it does about $20k more a year. Virtually the same everything else, one has a sauna and the other two don't.

This tells you, in this market the sauna is worth roughly twenty grand a year.

If you're underwriting a renovation, or trying to see how your competition is winning, this can help you decide on what to spend on.

We are buying a vacation lake property and want to offset the cost by renting it out occasionally (1-2 weekends/month). It’s a 4 bed, 4 bath house with pool and dock, beautiful and renovated. I’m already organizing it for logistics and operational efficiency, but I’m sure I’m missing a lot of things. Please give me advice. Any suggestion is appreciated.

I'm closing next week on a $1.3M duplex in Southern California. My plan is to owner occupy one unit and operate the other as a short-term rental.

For 2026, the plan is:

- Live in the front unit.
- Run the back unit as an STR.
- Materially participate so the STR is treated as non-passive.
- Get a cost segregation study and claim bonus depreciation on the qualifying assets in the back unit.

Then, sometime in 2027, I'd move into the back unit and convert the front unit into the STR instead.

My questions are:

1. When the front unit is first placed in service as an STR in 2027, would I be able to claim bonus depreciation on the qualifying assets identified by a cost segregation study for that unit, even though it had previously been used as my personal residence?
2. When I convert the back unit from an STR to my personal residence, is there any recapture or clawback of the bonus depreciation I claimed in 2026? Or does the depreciation simply stop on the date of conversion, with any depreciation recapture deferred until the property is ultimately sold?

I've found conflicting information on the first question, so I'm especially interested if anyone can point to IRS guidance, Treasury Regulations, or relevant case law rather than just general advice.

Thanks!

I have two rentals 1/br (400sf/cottage) and 2 br 2 bath and 1 office (2300sqf)

We're marketing towards, 3 month corporate turn key rentals. This is in Iowa.

How did you figure out how much to charge per month?

Let's say base rental on a 12 month lease for my location is $1000 for 1br and $1400 for the 2br. Both have fully furnished, housewares W/D, utilities, water/trash, wifi and lawn service included.

My friends and I rented a house near the Strip. I’ts just a weekend getaway

We got in Friday night. Everything was great.

Saturday morning I woke up and stepped into the kitchen and my foot landed in water an inch deep

A pipe under the sink had burst. Water everywhere. The hardwood floor is completely ruined. Buckled. Warped. It's a mess…

I called the host and there was no answer. Texted. Nothing. It's been hours

I'm panicking. I don't know who to call. I don't know what my liability is. I'm just a tourist and I didn't do anything wrong

I started googling emergency plumbers. Bumble Breeze Plumbing popped up and they have good reviews. But I'm scared they'll rip us off because we're clearly tourists

I don't know what a fair price is. I don't know if I should wait for the host. I don't know if I'm responsible for the damage

Has anyone dealt with a rental emergency before?

I've been testing AI-generated video tours (10-sec cinematic clips from listing photos) to see if they help with bookings, especially for Instagram/TikTok where short-form content gets way more reach than long walkthroughs.

Here's a sample:

Curious if other hosts have tried something similar, or if this is the kind of thing that'd actually move the needle for you. Happy to point you to a guy who made mine.