Airbnb housing rentals around the world are official. Using the Airbnb service: renting and renting out housing around the world! Important nuances when booking an apartment on airbnb

Accommodation on airbnb.ru

What is a siteairbnb

Airbnb.ru (airbnb.com) is a website for housing rentals around the world. The essence of the Airbnb project is to connect owners of apartments (rooms, apartments, houses, villas and even yachts) in different countries who want to rent out their housing, and potential tenants of this housing on a trip, business trip, study, vacation and under other circumstances.

The advantages of renting accommodation around the world from hosts over standard hotel bookings are obvious. For the same money (and often cheaper) you get a full-fledged apartment instead of a small hotel room. Renting a house or apartment from the owner is very convenient for family trips, especially with children, or for large groups. For solo travelers, it is convenient to rent a room. Let's compare the cheapest Double Room in a hotel and accommodation on airbnb at the same price in Stockholm. What will you choose: stop in a hotel with a tiny room and a shared (!) toilet or in a bright, spacious two-room apartment for the same money?

On the left is a large two-room apartment, on the right is a hotel room without a bathroom

How to rent an apartment without intermediaries from the owner on Airbnb

To rent a home around the world for the first time through the airbnb website, you need to go through several simple steps. Subsequently, you will be able to rent an apartment without intermediaries from the owner on Airbnb in just a few minutes.

Filling out your profile

Start with yourself. The owner needs to be sure that he is receiving a decent guest. Be conscientious when filling out your profile, because this determines whether the owner will approve your reservation.

Register. Of course, first you need to register. Have you noticed a gift from us? Next I will tell you what this means.
Fill out the description. Tell us a little about yourself.
Upload a photo. It is advisable that the photo is yours, close-up and with a smile.
Confirm your profile. There are several options: linking your account with social networks, phone, email, verification through a scan of a document. This is a very important point that confirms that you are a real person with serious intentions.
Collect positive reviews. When you start using the site to its fullest, from the very first booking, agree with the owner to exchange reviews. They can be left at the end of your stay for a certain period of time. Unfortunately, many guests and hosts are then too lazy to do this.

⚠ Since airbnb is a site for rental housing around the world, try to give your description and reviews not only in Russian, but also in English.

Important nuances when booking an apartment onairbnb

When you start choosing housing in the city or country you are interested in, pay attention to the following parameters.

Master:

Description of yourself.
Profile confirmations. The more there are, the better
Availability of positive reviews (the owner may not have reviews about this property, but he does have reviews about another).
Response rate. A good owner strives for 100%.
Availability of “Superhost” status. Awarded for special merit, as seen in the diagram below.

The best hosts are awarded the Order of Superhost

We were satisfied with the owner with superhost status.

Apartment (house, room):

Reviews of the apartment on airbnb.
Availability of photos. Sometimes pictures are taken by airbnb representatives, then they are marked with a “Verified” sign.
Address (area of location).

Conditions of accommodation and booking:

Cancellation conditions. We will consider this point in more detail later.
Availability of options: household appliances, internet, parking, etc.
Availability of collateral. Sometimes the owner can indicate the amount of the deposit for the safety of the property.
Minimum number of days of stay.

⚠ The lack of reviews about the property, verified photos and “superhost” status from the owner does not mean that this property should not be considered. Most likely, the owner does not rent out the apartment often, has only recently joined the Airbnb website, or is located in a rarely visited place.

What do we pay for

The payment includes basic payments and additional ones.

Basic:

Housing rental amount.
airbnb service fee (≈6-12%).

Additional (at the owner's request):

Cleaning.
Other host services.

The total amount is indicated in a special window - everything is extremely transparent.

On the right you can always see what is included in the price and the final cost of the reservation

General rules for paying for housing

Contact the owner by clicking the button

Once you have decided on housing, contact the owner via messages. Tell us a little about yourself and the purpose of your trip, ask the owner additional questions, and find out if the accommodation is available for the dates you are interested in. If both parties are happy with everything, request a reservation. You can communicate with multiple owners at the same time, but only request bookings for the same dates from one. Otherwise, several owners may confirm your reservation at once, and your card will be debited for all confirmed requests.

⚠ If you do not speak the host's language, use online translators. Avoid making complex or ambiguous sentences to minimize distortions during automatic translation.

You can bypass correspondence with the host via messages and immediately send a booking request. But I don’t recommend doing this if you have found several options that you like, and there is little time left. You may not have time to submit a new application for another accommodation if your reservation is not rejected immediately.

Submit a booking request and wait for confirmation from the host

Some airbnb apartments have instant booking options. This means that confirmation from the owner is not required. But I still try to first enter into correspondence with the owner in order to clarify the details of interest.

Book accommodation worldwide instantly

Payment on the Airbnb website takes place online using bank card, as soon as the owner confirms the reservation, or at the time of booking if the property has an “instant confirmation” status. For residents of some countries, other payment methods may be used (for example, PayPal). The airbnb service acts as a guarantor of safety Money. The owner will receive payment only 24 hours after your arrival. Therefore, if something goes wrong, it is very important to report the claim to Airbnb support before this period expires.

Travel coupons and bonuses

The Airbnb site has created an incentive system for attracting new users. For successfully inviting friends, both you and your friends will be awarded so-called coupons. In fact, these are not standard coupons with a promo code, but a travel bonus that is assigned to your account.

If you just register on the airbnb.ru website, there will be no bonus. And if you use a special invitation link, the system will give you a $15-35 discount on your accommodation reservation (promotions change periodically and may soon be canceled altogether, so it’s better to register now). After registering on the site, you can also invite friends and acquaintances and give them gift coupons. For what? And then, after they rent an apartment through airbnb, you will be credited with a new discount coupon. It is better to register now, as the promotion may be canceled at any time. So, recently the value of bonuses has changed several times.

Kostya and I once went to Moscow and decided to use airbnb (you can read our review with photos at the link). By that time, we had already accumulated 2 discount coupons totaling $50. For a luxurious new three-ruble note, we paid $60 instead of $110 for two days by redeeming coupons. We loved saving so much! 🙂

This is what our receipt for paying three rubles for two days in Lyubertsy looks like

⚠ Coupons are valid for 1 year.

Cancellation of a reservation on the websiteairbnb

Of course, there are situations when travel plans or routes change. Therefore, when choosing accommodation, be sure to pay attention to the cancellation conditions. They come in several types:

Flexible.
Moderate.
Strict.
Super strict 30 days.
Super strict 60 days.
Long-term.

The first three conditions are most common. For all of the above options, general rules apply:

But if the owner cancels the reservation, this will affect his rating. The Airbnb system automatically publishes information about this fact in the form of a review from a guest. The owner cannot delete it, so it is not in his interests to spoil his reputation. In addition, the host will pay serious fines and will not be able to obtain Superhost status for the next year. But if this does happen, the guest will receive a refund and assistance in finding new housing.

Compliance with Airbnb rules is the key to safety

Please carefully read the rules for renting accommodation around the world on airbnb. They are designed to create maximum safety and comfort. The system is designed in such a way that it protects both guests and hosts. It happens that, under the pretext of saving on service fees, the owners may offer you to pay them directly. Booking bypassing the Airbnb website entails the risk of running into scammers. And in this case, you will not be able to take advantage of the system’s guarantees.

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Traveling around different countries, most travelers stay in hotels, boarding houses or guesthouses. Since 2008 there has been great service AirBNB, where you can book a variety of inexpensive accommodation from private owners instead of hotels. Moreover, the choice of housing on the site was more colorful, educational and all over the world. Unfortunately, AirBNB has changed for the worse and negative reviews about Airbnb are becoming increasingly common. I was registered in this service almost from the very beginning and I have something to compare with.

For a long time I liked renting apartments from private owners through AirBNB, so I was always happy to recommend this service to my friends. But the further you go, the worse and more expensive the service becomes.

Now AirBNB is not always profitable and convenient for travelers, and I no longer want to recommend it. I myself am almost completely, because... many apartment options with Airbnb are now available on Booking and they are cheaper. But I don’t know what I will use tomorrow. I tried HomeAway and others - everything is not the same, and most importantly, the choice is too small. I really like the idea of AirBNB, so I hope something similar will appear soon, but better, cheaper and without hidden fees - and I will definitely tell you about it (stay tuned for updates on FB and VK).

Airbnb has taught us that the only way to book cheap apartments is through them. Alas, this is no longer the case. Before you book something on Airbnb out of habit, Google it and look for the same option in other services - it only takes a minute, but you can save almost twice as much (see example below).

Here I’ll tell you what has changed in Airbnb, and below you can read my old article about how it was once a really great service.

Important changes to Airbnb since 2018

What happened to Airbnb and why renting housing through them became unprofitable and even risky:

Bookings in Europe are being cancelled. at the last moment - there is a risk of being left without a reservation at the height of the season.
Since 2018, renting housing through AirBnb has become risky - there are more and more reviews that reservations began to be canceled at the last minute. This is due to the entry into force of new laws that homeowners are subject to - this is mainly true for Europe and the USA. The most reviews about booking cancellations I have seen come from the following cities: Barcelona, Valencia, Lisbon, Amsterdam, NY, Singapore. However, Airbnb, instead of helping to solve this situation, shifted all responsibility onto the clients - get out of it however you want.
It is better not to apply for a visa when booking through AirBnb
In connection with the previous point, they may refuse to receive it or give it for a shorter period - this has begun to happen more and more often.
AirBnb customer service is unhelpful.
This used to be the best customer service I've ever encountered. Nowadays it’s impossible to even find where to contact support on the Airbnb website, the e-mail and phone number of the support are carefully hidden, and when they manage to reach not the automatic replies, but a real person, they answer like robots and cannot help in any way.
Especially when your question concerns tricks with payment on Airbnb - the support service begins to “turn on the fool” and pretend that they do not understand what they are talking about. And they say we don’t understand where you got the screenshots from...
Removed prices from the calendar.
Previously, you could look at the prices for each day in the calendar and select those days when they were cheaper, but now this option has been removed.
They hide the final price.
The price you see on the main page may differ from the final price by 1.5 times! Guess in whose favor?
Moreover, this doesn’t seem to be an Airbnb scam, because... It's all there somewhere in the rules and there's no way to dig into it. They just learned to hide the final price so cleverly.
For example, we want to rent an apartment in Milan for 3 days (see picture below) - on the Airbnb main page the price is 53 euros per day:
Now watch your steps carefully: on the next page they already write that 50 euros is super! But commissions are added, a total of 205. I wonder where the price of 53 on the main page came from?
At Step 3, for some reason the price turns into 206.36 and they write that this is a conversion fee. What kind of conversion? From euro to euro?
And finally, in the end, they convert us into rubles and the total price becomes 213 euros for 3 days (for this day the Central Bank rate is 1 EUR = 73.90 RUB). How much did you end up with per day? (The answer is below the picture.)

Airbnb Price Trick - Follow the Steps
We count: magically 53 euros turns into 71 euros per day! By the way, it’s not clear where 53 came from? In general, if you look at the screenshot, many more questions arise for Airbnb...

Therefore, do not rush to book, first go to the payment page and compare this price with the price on other services - always compare the final price, not the intermediate price! You will be very surprised.
It became more expensive and appeared hidden fees Airbnb.
The commission has increased: Airbnb now takes 3% from the owner and 15% from the guest - as stated on their website. In addition, many do not notice, but Airbnb does a forced currency conversion not in favor of the client, and this adds up to 3% at the final payment step. Total 21% – this is too much! Therefore, I switched to Booking, where the commission is lower, and the price for the traveler is final and there are no hidden fees - to the client immediately on the first page.
Why Booking? Yes, because that’s where the same apartments with Airbnb are now presented, but at a higher price favorable price. It looks like the owners Airbnb apartments became unprofitable, because even the starting price for apartments has become higher than, for example, on Booking.com.
For example, here is the same apartment in Lisbon, which is listed on Airbnb and Booking (using the links it is easy to compare from the photo that these are the same apartment). Let's compare prices for the same dates:
Total: 372 euros on Airbnb (without conversion fee, the exact price will be in the last step) versus 233 euros on Booking (final price).
If you pay with a ruble card, your Airbnb bill will end up being 28,449.04 rubles. at the Central Bank exchange rate 1 EUR = 73.90 RUB. That is, the final price is 385 euros!!!

That is, the euro exchange rate in Airbnb turns out to be 76.47 rubles, which means the markup is the same +3% for conversion.
It would seem that for payment it is better to leave the account in the host’s currency, but no - Airbnb forcibly converts it into the currency of your country, which you specified during registration, even if you pay with a card in euros, and you will only find out after payment (I wrote about this in their support with all screenshots at every step of the booking process, because at every step the price changed, it seemed strange and I decided to take screenshots, but they replied that I was a fool and had chosen the wrong currency, and it was unclear where I got the screenshots from...). I wonder if the host’s currency is “tugriks” (for example, in Thailand), will there be a double conversion? I didn't check. Well, Airbnb has found a great way to make money!
Airbnb absolutely don't care about loyal users.
If they offer promotions and discounts to newcomers, then to those who have been using the service for a long time, they only increase commissions every year. I think many people remember the 12% commission.

Why did Airbnb stop caring about its clients? Maybe Airbnb will come to their senses and turn back to us, the clients? After all, there was a great service and you can still occasionally find interesting options on Airbnb, but, alas, less and less...

How AirBnb used to work

(Everything below was written in 2010 and is no longer relevant - I’ll leave it for history)
My acquaintance with AirBNB happened by chance. In March, when planning a trip to, I was still unable to book an inexpensive hotel there. Prices started at $100 and went into space. As a result, on the advice of a friend, I found myself an apartment on the 28th floor in the Bukit Batok metro area through AirBNB. For only $80, and with great view from the window and an excellent swimming pool. Although the owner was nominally present in the apartment, I practically did not interact with him. For my first experience, I was more than pleased - I managed it and had a good idea of “how I would live here” :)

Don't confuse AirBNB rentals with couchsurfing. “Registrations” through couchsurfing are free, but do not provide either privacy or comfort. Hotels, on the contrary, offer comfort, but at a high price. By the way, in some cities there are not as many hotels as you would like. That's why renting a home via AirBNB this is something in between - more comfortable than “fitting in”, but cheaper than hotels.

Why do I like booking accommodation through AirBNB?

In the photo: a fully furnished apartment in Prague, for example, can be rented on AirBNB for 29 euros / day

1. Savings

AirBNB offers nice, well-equipped accommodation for less than hotels. This is especially true for fashionable, expensive and tourist cities like Nice, Barcelona or . It’s up to date to book your accommodation via AirBNB on holidays, when the cost of all hotels skyrockets.

2. Hotels are not available everywhere

In the photo: when traveling you can choose completely different and unusual types of accommodation

You can live in a variety of areas of cities where there is simply no. Booking via AirBNB, a traveler can test a variety of housing formats: apartments in skyscrapers, standard apartments, separate villas, romantic attics and even yachts :) Moreover, there are options to get a room in an apartment or rent the entire property.

3. New impressions and interesting experiences

Living “like a local” for a couple of days, something like a “demo version”, is a valuable experience and broadening your horizons. A great way to appreciate the features of housing and the quality of local life, to feel like a “Barcelonian” or “Singaporean”. Especially useful if you are thinking about visiting this country :)

4. Communication with new people

If you rent a room in an apartment, it is quite possible to improve your knowledge of a foreign language by communicating with the owners of the property. For example, learn something about the locals, about the real prices and rules of life of this country and its inhabitants.

How to book accommodation through AirBNB

Register for AirBNB, fill out your contact details in your profile. To book good accommodations through AirBNB, you need to be liked by potential hosts. Post your most welcoming photo, write what kind of “white and fluffy” traveler you are, and landlords will be drawn to you :) By the way, on AirBNB, landlords and tenants have their own personal ratings. The more often you rent through AirBNB, the more recommendations you will have. This will simplify subsequent settlements.

What to look for when looking for accommodation on AirBNB

In the photo: first of all, we check the calendar and prices for the required days

First of all, check the calendar for available dates and prices for these days. Prices may vary on different days of the week.

Having selected an interesting housing option, we study the final price, living conditions and reviews of other guests.

Pictured: Please note that cleaning fees and AirBNB fees have been added.

When renting housing through AirBNB, you pay the actual price for housing + site commission + cleaning fee + guarantee amount (blocked/refunded)

In the photo: it is important to read all the living conditions

We study all the conditions for renting housing on AirBNB

Typically the landlord specifies the following:

1. Type of accommodation: apartment (house) or room only
2. Number of guests (in this example 4). If there are more guests, an additional fee will apply for each additional guest.
3. The amount of the security deposit (this does not always happen). This amount is blocked by AirBNB from your card in case of damage (in this example 150 euros)
4. Housing cleaning fee. Sometimes the landlord charges more money for cleaning, thereby reducing the site commission for you (a percentage of the daily price of the apartment)
5. Penalties for cancellation of booking (flexible, moderate, strict) – be sure to read these conditions when booking.
6. We study in the description what is in the apartment: parking, internet, washing machine, TV, etc.

If everything suits you, write a request to the host or simply click the red “Book” button. Then wait for a response. Most landlords will respond and confirm your request fairly quickly. Sometimes, however, they refuse.

If you see a lightning bolt icon, it means the apartment can be rented automatically, without waiting for the owner’s confirmation. So convenient.

I'll tell you how to find it nice apartment and remove it without any problems. Here are five tips to help you avoid screwing up your rent.

Sergey Korol

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Usually, newcomers to Air BBC choose a city and date, and then admire the beautiful photos of apartments from the search. They imagine how they will lie on a luxurious bed and how they will have breakfast on the balcony overlooking the park. As a result, they choose housing with the cutest photos. Is it dangerous.

Perhaps, instead of a pleasant sleep in bed, you will have to get up early in the morning to catch the train to the center. And to have breakfast on the balcony, you will need to walk for an hour to buy groceries at the nearest supermarket.

We went to Helsinki for the festival and were impressed by the cute apartment with a sauna and grill on the balcony. It turned out that she was formally in another city, in Espoo. It's an hour's drive to Helsinki

To make your vacation enjoyable, look not only at the photographs, but also at the location of the apartments. Find out where the nearest stops are public transport and how often does he go? See what shops and cafes are nearby. If you're driving, find out where to park overnight.

For example, I want to rent an apartment in the city center, in the Punavuori area:

I find this place in Google Maps, and then “walk” along the neighboring streets in street view mode.

I’m looking for parking, looking at the signs, as if I’m driving a virtual car and thinking about where to park it.

Oh, you can park your car here from 9 am to 7 pm - this is written on the yellow sign on the wall of the building, above the Canon. But you won’t be able to park overnight - in the morning there will be a fine waiting under the windshield wiper

Sometimes they deliberately rent an apartment not in the center in order to save on rent. Before you do this, calculate how much an hour of your vacation costs. This way you will see that an expensive apartment in the center will be more profitable.

Cost of renting an apartment in Paris

Rent an apartment for 3200 RUR per day

More expensive and closer

Rent an apartment in the center for 4800 RUR per day

Spend 2 hours every day getting to the center and back - 800 RUR of your time and another 20 € for two for bus tickets (≈1400 RUR)

More expensive and closer

You walk around the city on foot and rarely spend money on transport. The apartment costs as much as you pay for rent

Total - 5400 RUR

More expensive and closer

Both the renter and the owner can cancel a reservation at Air BBC.

If you rent an apartment and then change your mind, the service may fine you. This is determined by the types of cancellations. There are six of them: from soft to hard.

With soft cancellation, you can cancel your rental even five minutes before check-in - you will receive a full refund. With hard cancellation, you will get a 50% refund of your stay if you cancel your reservation a month in advance.

Cancellation policies are listed in the "Prices" section

Sometimes it happens that the owner of the apartment cancels the reservation. Often, owners rent out their apartments while traveling, and plans may change. This is a fairly rare case; it happened to me once.

If the host cancels your reservation, you will receive an email letting you know. I advise you to look through your mailbox the night before your trip. By the way, if the owner cancels the reservation, then Air BBC will give you a small consolation amount to your internal account.

Make lists directly on the site

Usually there are dozens and hundreds of apartment options at Air BBC. In order not to get confused in them and not to lose interesting ones, I advise you to keep a list.

The list is created directly on the website. Name it after the city you're going to.

Then add apartments to the list directly from the search - click on ❤:

So in half an hour you will have a dozen options to choose from. You can discuss them with family or friends. These apartments will no longer be lost in the search.

Check details in advance

Usually apartment owners send guests detailed instructions: how to get from the airport, how to find an apartment. Guests close the Air BBC tab, thinking that everything is ok.

What to pay attention to

The owner writes that the easiest way to get from Berlin Tegel Airport is by taxi for 20 € (1534 RUR). But you do not fly to Tegel, but to Schönefeld. Find out how to get there by public transport from Schönefeld and how much it will cost.

The owner asks to pick up the keys from the neighbor. She lives opposite, in apartment 20B. Ask your neighbor for her phone number and ask her to give her your number. Warn that you will be there between 12 and 14 o'clock - let him be at home at this time.

The owner offers to meet you from the train and take you home by car. He asks for only 15 € (1150 RUR). Google transport: it turns out that you can get from the station to your house by tram for 4 € (306 RUR). Politely decline.

The owner complains that there is now an excavator in his parking space and it will not be possible to leave the car at the house. Find out from him where the nearest free parking. If there isn’t one, ask him to negotiate with your neighbors so that you park in someone else’s place.

Usually before a trip I look at the route from the stop to the house on Street View. This way I find housing quickly and without errors.

This is our temporary home in Berlin. If you take a street view walk around the neighborhood, you can see huge park full of weed dealers

I also make sure to write down the owner’s phone number and take screenshots of Google Maps. I can use the screenshots to get to the place; if I get lost, in extreme cases, I’ll call you by phone.

You might think I'm paranoid. However, during all this time I have had almost no unpleasant moments with checking into Air BBC.

Include the skeptic

Usually people think the apartment is nice in advance. Beautiful pictures, view outside the window. By default, I consider any housing suspicious.

When I look at an apartment, I always try to find a flaw in it. Why didn't you take a photo of the bathroom? Where will all the things go from the table and closet? Why does the baby's crib get wet in the rain on the balcony?

So I found a nice apartment in Riga:

But if you scroll down to the photo of the house itself, it becomes a little scary. Hut on chicken legs for 2600 RUR per day!

If you have any doubts about the apartment, it is better to clarify them with the owner in advance. If you can’t clarify, don’t shoot.

I avoid apartments that have too many household items. Typically, such apartments are found among those who are leaving for several weeks. You will be greeted by cabinets filled with things and a bathroom shelf where there is nowhere to even put toothpaste. It’s a strange feeling: you seem to have paid a lot of money, but it’s like you’re living as a guest.

This apartment in Rome is obviously residential. Everywhere there are paintings, books and things of the owners

Don't forget about cleaning. Typically, Air BBC shows the cost of a night's stay in the search. However, in addition to this amount, an additional cleaning fee will be charged. The money for cleaning goes to the owner of the apartment, so sometimes he cheats: he reduces the cost of rent, but charges a lot for cleaning. Look at this amount when choosing an apartment. The cost of cleaning should not exceed one night in the apartment.

For three nights in a Tokyo apartment, you expect to pay 9,600 RUR, but you will pay more than 12 thousand. They will additionally charge 2200 RUR for cleaning and another 1500 RUR for the Air BBC commission.

How to contact outside of Air BBC. The service stops all attempts to exchange contacts with the owners of apartments that you have not rented. You won’t be able to leave your phone number or a link to your social network account - Air BBC will hide this for the recipient of the message.

To contact the owner, some distort the words: Fαсၔbo0к or Inƽαrαm. Or they write numbers in letters: plus seven nine two five...

Please do not try to bypass Air BBC to rent an apartment. The owner will complain, you will be blocked, or something else will happen:

On the Internet now, every travel site tells how to rent out your home on airbnb for the winter or vacation, but few people actually rent out theirs and know how everything really is. After reading such sites with advice: “How to rent out an apartment through airbnb,” I decided to write this article, based on my own experience with this system. Main points and pitfalls, whether or not to draw up an agreement, how to withdraw money, and so on.

By the way, if you don't already know! You can also rent out your accommodation through Booking.com!! Site number 1, as you know, for rental housing. When you register as an owner, you won't pay a commission on your first 5 bookings!

How to rent out an apartment using airbnb.

Everything is simple, there is nothing complicated in the process. If you are already registered in this system as a guest, then you do not need to register separately as a landlord. You need to log into your account and add your ad. If you are not registered, then via this link You will have access to not only registration for renting out an apartment on Airbnb, but also a housing bonus if you go on vacation yourself for 2100 rubles, or 25 euros.

Creating an advertisement for renting an apartment: what you should pay attention to.

The most important point There will be photos when you create your rental listing. And it doesn’t matter whether you do them yourself or invite a photographer from airbnb, which, by the way, is free. Here are just a few tips:

If you rent out your apartment in which you live yourself, like me, then try to remove all unnecessary personal items. This spoils the picture, and subsequently the guest can point out the discrepancy between the things stated in the ad. So, in one photo I had a MacBook on the table - and everyone asked if it would be available upon check-in.
Take photos of the cozy details, the place where people will sleep, the bathroom and toilet rooms. This is what people pay attention to first. All sorts of cute little things have a positive effect and attract careful tourists who value comfort.
Make a map of the area, describing all the delights of what can be found nearby: shops, transport stops and where you can take a walk before going to bed. If your apartment is in residential area, this will be very useful and may be the deciding factor for the guest to choose your accommodation. You can just save the map image from Google and label where everything is.
Choose the most successful and cozy photo for the header. In the search, it is she who will “work” for you. Consider this the keyword that will get your ad clicked.

Apartment management: meeting and seeing off guests.

Airbnb has made everything easier for hosts and guests when it comes to search and financial matters. But nevertheless, you will still have to meet your guests. And here there are two options: either you yourself (your friends or relatives) or a hired manager. Are you tempted to use the second option? However, there are some nuances here. Are you ready to issue a power of attorney for the management of an apartment to a third party? Aren't you afraid after some time to find your apartment in a ruined state?

Airbnb has an internal forum for renters. In the St. Petersburg thread, the issue with the management company is discussed and there are negative reviews. When the management company, roughly speaking, squeezes all the juice out of the property without carrying out repairs and other necessary things (changing worn-out linen, for example). By handing over a clean, renovated apartment to management, you can end up with a dead one. Approach the issue more carefully.

"Underwater rocks"

Despite the simplicity that airbnb came up with, making renting a home via the Internet as simple and convenient as possible, it has its own pitfalls. Therefore, I want to voice what I have already encountered myself.

Property insurance and collateral.

For residents of Russia, the 1 million landlord insurance declared in the airbnb system is not valid.

To protect yourself from possible problems with the tenant, Airbnb is advised to set a deposit. The minimum recommended amount is 75 euros and it is frozen on your guest's card. But I advise you to also conclude a lease agreement, an ordinary paper one, in which it is advisable to write down the passport details of your tenant, so that if something happens, you have something to go to court with. There is no need to be afraid to invite guests to sign such an agreement; it is advisable to even mention it in correspondence in advance. In Spain, when renting a house in Sitges, the owner offered us to sign such an agreement, and there is no crime in this.

Bank commission for withdrawal of funds.

For each transaction on your card, when you want to withdraw earned dollars or euros, the bank will charge you its commission.

Currently, 12 euros are charged for euro payments, even if you have a direct euro account. The commission is “bitten off” by the partner bank. So far, only Alfa Bank does not charge such a commission. To avoid unnecessary expenses, you can set a withdrawal limit, and then airbnb will send you not after each guest check-in, but when a certain threshold (any) is reached.

Payment currency.

You can only receive money in the currency in which you set the price for your apartment. Currently, when the exchange rate of the euro and dollar is rising and falling, there is a reason to fix it in rubles if you still rely not only on foreign tenants. And in this case, the money will also be credited in rubles without any extra commission. By indicating the cost of renting an apartment or room in euros or dollars, they can only be withdrawn to a euro or dollar account.

Why get rent in rubles nowadays if you can get euros? It's simple. It all depends solely on your rental property. If she is in a very tourist place, in the center, for example, then you can count on success with foreigners. If the apartment is a little out of the way, in a residential area even 20 minutes away by metro, then the flow of foreigners dries up, but our compatriots are still attracted to such apartments. Due to the growth of the exchange rate, as happened in last years, at a rate of 50 euros per night, for Russian tourist the price jumped from 2 thousand to 5! Of course, you can recalculate the rate every day taking into account the exchange rate. It is also worth understanding that the tourist flow in each city is different. In St. Petersburg, the influx of tourists begins in May and ends in September. Well holidays. The rest of the time, demand falls.

Cancel Reservation.

If for some reason you cancel your reservation, your plans change, for example, or you simply change your mind, the system will block these dates anyway and you will not be able to rent out the property again. You will also have automatic negative review which will be linked to your account even if you delete this ad and add a new one.

You can set a cancellation policy for your guests and thereby protect yourself from a situation where a guest cancels at the last minute, choosing another accommodation, for example. I know of a case where a reservation was canceled right before a holiday and the tenant was unable to rent out the apartment within a short period of time and lost money.

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Good luck to you, interesting and careful guests!!

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By the way, if you don't already know! You can also rent out your accommodation through Booking.com!! Site number 1, as you know, for rental housing. When you register as an owner using this link, you will not pay a commission on your first 5 bookings!

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