What I learned with my first Airbnb

[Brandon Allenczy]

My wife and I decided to get started in REI by converting our primary home into our first short term rental. We packed up and moved to Asheville, NC, and started to manage the Airbnb back in Wilmington, NC.

We're on our third guests so far and the lessons learned have been invaluable. Here's a summary of what I've learned so far:

1. Things will break. Immediately.

2. Your systems are ****. If you think they aren't, you're wrong.

3. The quality of your systems gets shown AFTER your first guests, not before.