Airbnb for 6 bedroom home in Tampa, FL

[Richard Solano]

Hi Everybody.

I have a 6 bedroom single family detached house in North Tampa (nice area surrounded by golf courses). The current long-term tenants are moving out at the end of July. I'm seriously considering making this a short-term (airbnb) property.  I could rent out each room individually, but is that practical? How many people really want go to FL and rent out one room. I could also rent out the whole house, but I connected with another Airbnb host with a big house for rent and he's only had two reservations for Mem day weekend. Just seems like renting out a whole 6 BR house would severely limit your potential customer base. I am out of state, but have a decent local network to clean and maintain the home. 

Any perspectives/experiences to share?

Thanks!

Rick

[Michael Greenberg]

I doubt renting a room in a multi-room house will have  much appeal unless you have common areas that can be shared as well.  There will be other challenges with schedules and guest arrival and departures.  My advice would be to do additional research on your own for a home this size.  Go to airdna.co (not .com), create an account for free, and search your area for similar size properties to view nights, rates, seasonality, etc....  If you then think you need the raw data file, buy the zip code your property resides in and drill down on like for like properties.