All Forum Posts by: Karina Busch

I'm genuinely trying to learn as I hope to scale my business and have some other properties that will be transitioning to STR. I am just finding it to be "clunky" like someone else mentioned. Airbnb made it so easy, so adding VRBO is proving to be a steeper curve so far.

 Thank you. I made it through that part but now I'm trying to figure out how to give my cleaners access to that calendar? I have 2 STRs in different states currently, and just have the cleaners as a co-host with access to the calendar. Doesn't look like VRBO has that option. Would love to know how everyone integrates it all. Do I need to just go ahead and set up a PMS, would that be the easiest? I do hope to scale so I'm trying to learn all this while I'm still small and get the process figured out up front. Thanks for everyone's comments!

Thank you I appreciate that. So did you provide the TOTAL tax rate (which I believe I found online) to include city, county, state, etc? I'm assuming that's what I use but it doesn't give me the option to say how much each is, just one total. Property is in AZ if that matters. 

 But they don't know the tax rate? It is wanting me to tell them if it is collected on the total or per guest per night, when it is to be collected, and what the rate is? I have no idea. I listed this property on Airbnb already and didn't have to know any of that. 

I have done well with Airbnb but thought I'd put my new STR on VRBO also since some of you seem to get a lot of bookings there. Do they not collect and remit taxes? It's asking me how taxes are collected and what the rate is. I have no idea. It's already proving to be a much more cumbersome process than Airbnb. Is this worth the headache?

If sellers can prove income you could probably get a DSCR loan. Or explore short term owner financing if they would do that for 1-5 years.

 I also hate switching out Duvets, it's a huge PITA IMO, so that's why I have steered away from that method bc I would hate to be the cleaners switching them out multiple times a week. So to clarify your triple sheet method, you put fitted sheet, 2 flat sheets, comforter, then another flat sheet on top? 

 I was quoted 22-30% of nightly rate with onboarding fees from $800-1500. So I'm continuing to self manage. This was in Sedona AZ. 

Thank you. I feel like duvets are great (and have them at home) but putting them on is always a PITA so I use a thinner comforter than can be washed easily and have extra blankets if the guests need them. 

 Same! I use thinner comforters and have extra to rotate out.