All Forum Posts by: Luke Carl

Give me a call I’ll teach you how to do it in an hour.

*** 3 Stars

"I was dissapointed that there weren't 3 types of moonshine at the cabin for me to sample during my stay."

A jar of moonshine is $25. So he was expecting $75 worth of moonshine for a one night stay worth $100. How he came up with the number "3" I have no idea. And to top it all off he scratched the crap out of my hardwoods with his suitcase. Did I mention he was a preacher?

SMH. 

** Due to much confusion and negativity I started this new thread **

For hosts that own and self manage a Vacation Rental or Short Term Rental on Airbnb/VRBO; this is a place to share the reviews that either ruined or made your day!

Get a 3 star review that made you lose your mind? We feel your pain here in the Short-Term/Vacation rental forum. Please share with us!

A wedding engagement on your porch? Let's hear about it! 

Please don't get off the subject 

Well this thread is totally worthless now. DELETE 

Whatever Paul says is the right thing to do. 

@Jerry N. so why don’t you share a review?? 

@Jay Hinrichs how could it possibly be more clear? Maybe you didn’t noticed this is the vacation rental/short term rental forum. If you're not actively using AirBnb and VRBO this wouldn't make any sense to you. 

Way to get off the subject dudes. Share some reviews! 

Get a 3 star lately that ruined your day? Share it here.... we feel your pain. 

I self manage. 5 log cabins in the pigeon forge Gatlinburg market. I use the VRBO app and the AirBnB app and I’m very happy with my success. If I were property managing I’d probably be looking for all the help I could get to make myself more money and make my owners less money.

I self managed from a distance from the get go. Now I have 5 of them in your market. And I have a day job. Which I only do because I enjoy it. Self managing is easy. Very. Very easy. And fun. And I bring in huge numbers and go on vacation often. It doesn’t take a few years to learn. It takes a couple of apps which download in about 2 seconds. But I get it it’s not for everyone!!!!

Luka Milicevic thanks bud Christina P. Kegerator is bad idea. They’ll already be drunk enough from the local moonshine. And you don’t want to encourage them to stay inside. Get them out. We are huge hikers and have done every hike in the park and we can offer our knowledge to guests. Unfortunately it’s rare anyone asks us about hikes. Hardcore hikers would never spend money on a cabin lol. But the guests that do are sure to leave an amazing review. I see you’re from Michigan. Be careful of this “basement” as Luka will agree basements basically don’t exist in Tennessee. It’s much more likely this is a crawl space posing as a basement. Which for one thing is not legal livable space, and another it will likely smell bad and have pipe issues because the pipes are supposed to be IN the crawl space, not under it. Sometimes you’ll even see a crawl space on top of a crawl space and sometimes they’re hanging off the side off the mountain. Both of which are sure to lead to cracks or “foundation issues.” Folks rent them as livable space on cabins every day out here, just known what you’re dealing with. Local home inspectors see it so often they probably don’t even realize you wouldn’t know it’s a crawl space and might not even mention it. I bet the pool table is just fine you can get it recovered for about $300 just pick up the phone and give them your door code. Most importantly..... in this area if you don’t self manage you will lose money. The local PMs charge 40% or you can use evolve at 10% and stay 50% empty. Here if you need me!

Charlie MacPherson this same thing is posted about once per week with a different city name. It will be like this in all metropolitan areas soon. People don’t want to live next door to people on vacation. Loud noises and puke are annoying. I feel your pain but think of it this way now you can get a long term tenant and stop working so hard. Assuming you bought right. Or even own. If you’re renting and airbnbing, which is much more common, then shame on you. Again. There is a difference between an “AirBnB” and a vacation rental. And then there’s Paul Sandhu who’s got it all figured out.