All Forum Posts by: Jake Cohen

Here’s a link to our next training, How to Furnish your Airbnb, for anyone interested. https://www.biggerpockets.com/topics/733132

This will be an event where we will have a live presentation at Corner Post Meats Ranch in Colorado Springs and an online webinar through Zoom Video Conferences. Corner Post will be opening their property to guests on Airbnb soon, so we will be able to tour their recent renovations if you attend in person.

This event will take place at 6pm MST in person at 10165 Hodgen Rd · Colorado Springs, CO- Corner Post Meats Ranch.

Online registration is available here:

https://zoom.us/webinar/regist...

We will discuss important considerations when furnishing your Airbnb, what things to avoid, and some of our favorite vendors and products. It's not the same as furnishing your primary residence, and we are here to walk you through getting everything rental ready.
This is free training, and we will take questions from everyone along the way!

A big thanks to Corner Post Meats for hosting us on their beautiful ranch property, which will be available for rent on Airbnb soon!

Just a reminder to register for this webinar happening in just 2 days:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715590698323/WN_W22qsmWbSw-loPNapQKgUQ

Going to be a great event!

Thanks,

Jake

Just a reminder to register for this webinar:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715590698323/WN_W22qsmWbSw-loPNapQKgUQ

Going to be a great event! 

Thanks,

Jake

@Peter Knepper great question! Building an ADU is a great use of your property and it sounds like you are in a fantastic area for it. My biggest suggestion would be to keep things simple.

If your guests are going to be staying for 2-7 days they don’t need a huge kitchen, bathroom, storage etc. You want to make sure you have all the amenities people expect but simple and functional. The biggest difference in amount of money you make will be the number of beds and total people you can accommodate. You could decide to offer 2 bedrooms or a bedroom plus a pullout couch or a loft space to accommodate additional guests.

The website listed in my profile has some videos on appliance selection, best practices, etc which may be helpful and we host a monthly webinar to discuss an in depth topic of Airbnb. Feel free to reach out with additional questions!

@Kerry Baird looks very nice. Congrats on diving in. My number 1 suggestion is to get professional photos taken. Photos sell your listing more than anything else.

@Julie McCoy awesome tip on the cleaning fee. Definitely something that gets overlooked all the time. And a month in you realize all your profit goes to the cleaner.

@Andrew Cornstubble We would love to have you attend. The details are above. It will be June 20th from 6-7pm Mountain time. The webinar link is at the top of the thread. Look forward to having you as part of the discussion. 

Thanks for the response. Very interesting about how KC is running their AirBnB licensing program. Thanks for the info about that. If you have any specific questions about Colorado, let me know.

We are teaching a class about investing running your Airbnb if you or anyone else is interested. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/71...

Originally posted by @Sofia Sharkey:

@Jake Cohen thank you for the input Jake and Colorado would actually be amazing so I’ll need to put it back on my list of potencial places to do more research on. The reason I originally discarded it was the cost of real estate in the major cities there ...but I’m guessing smaller towns will be more affordable.

Kansas City regulations are ok, you need to get registered with the city and request permission from your neighbors if it’s not your primary residency. It works in the city but once you get to the suburbs or more residencial neighborhoods it can become an issue. We actually had to shut down a listing (it was a test so it’s fine) because the neighbors were not ok with it (for no reason other than being uncomfortable with the idea).

This meetup will go into the basics of managing an AirBnB to become a Super Host. We will go over the best way to talk to your guests, automate tasks with software, price your listing properly, create a guestbook, and more. We will take questions from anyone along the way. This is free training! We will have a webinar link for anyone to attend regardless of location. Please feel free to ask any questions here before we get started. We will be hosting this event live in Denver, so please let us know if you would like to attend in person as well.