All Forum Posts by: Shannon Green

 We are going to install cameras, but I don't have time watch the cameras all day, so they will be more for monitoring and for evidence, if I need it.  Unfortunately the activity that went on that we were informed about happened very late at night and thank goodness my neighbors took pictures and sent them to me. Thanks for you feedback.  

 It's in South Padre and depending on time of year, it's important to vet them out. 

 Thanks for your response.  I'll definitely look into Autohost. 

We have an STR beach home in South Padre Island. We recently had a large group; larger than what was allowed, stay at our home and their behavior was unacceptable. We found out that one of the kids mother's rented the house and was never on site. It was a bunch of young, underage kids, doing dangerous things.
Question for everyone:  we use VRBO.  How do you handle preventing this?  We have changed our language to state the the person renting must be at least 25 and MUST be present during the entire stay.  We would like to request ID's before renting for everyone staying....just a thought.  Is anyone doing this?  We have a local manager that can check ID's upon arrival.  What are your thoughts?  Any advice would be appreciated. 

Thank you everyone for all of the information.  Saying that I appreciate it is an understatement!  Happy New Year!

@Sarah Kensinger I'm on it!  Checking them out right now!  Thank you!

@Robert Phillips, thank you for your feedback!  I'm like a little sponge taking it all in! Lol!  Appreciate it!

@Sarah Kensinger, I would love that!  Truly appreciate it!  I look forward to learning from any resources you have available and/or people to study on social media.  Thank you!

@Christian Ehlers, between my 2.5 history of pricing that I have in my file for the past years, along with being able to see a house that is very similar to mine online and what it rents for, I think I can marry all the information together along with Guesty to come up with a price to get started.  You've helped a lot!  Thank you!

Shannon

@Josh Freedenberg, thank you!  I'm nervous and excited about taking over the house and it will be a learning curve for sure.  Your feedback on template prompts to find here in Bigger Pockets and marketing it on Facebook are very helpful.  I'm going to start looking into these prompts today.  I'm definitely looking up schlage lock!  I've got a great photographer doing videography and photography for me, so I'm good there.  I feel much better with the feedback you all have given me.  

Thank you!