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VRBO vs AIRBNB Experiment
We only have one STR, all the rest of our properties are LTR's. We started the STR in June of 23 and only listed on VRBO for the first year and a half. The people in this forum convinced me we should be on more than one platform so on Jan 1 2025 I added our property to AIRBNB as well as VRBO. After one year on both platforms I'm reporting back that we got exactly 50% of our bookings from VRBO and 50% from AIRBNB. We had 38 weekends booked for the year. 19 of the booked weekends were for two nights.
I have one question for the group for 2026, we are considering changing to a 3 night minimum. What do you think? Will we be shooting ourselves in the foot?
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Hey @Mike Kirby, we are pretty close to 50/50 as well this year. Next year is shaping up pretty much the same percentage.
We are at 3 day minimum. We are quite rural on a large lake in North Idaho so a single day stay in a 2700sqft 4/3 lake house isn't what people are looking for.
It will all depend on where you are if you can support a 3 day minimum stay.
What are others around you doing for minimum duration?