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#Post#: 411--------------------------------------------------
Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: gillumhouse Date: December 30, 2023, 2:50 pm
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Finally looked at my inbox to see
An e-mail of great interest to me!
When opened it brought a smile of good cheer -
The first reservation of the New Year!
An anniversary trip in September
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Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: Thebeachhouse Date: January 1, 2024, 7:25 am
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Off we go! Happy New Year and happy 2024 season!
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Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: Arks Date: January 1, 2024, 5:54 pm
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[quote author=Thebeachhouse link=topic=64.msg412#msg412
date=1704115531]
Off we go! Happy New Year and happy 2024 season!
[/quote]
Happy and PROSPEROUS 2024 to all!
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Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: Arks Date: January 2, 2024, 4:42 pm
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I was full for Thanksgiving and Christmas weekends, but other
than those weekends, things have been slow slow slow here. I
don't know if it's that people aren't traveling, or if it's the
4 Air rentals that have appeared here in the last year.
The Airs are all whole-house rentals with multiple bedrooms for
less than I get for 1 room. They all look nice on the Air
website. Not as upscale as my place, and they are out in
residential neighborhoods, not by the town square like my place,
but hard to beat offering that much space for such a low price.
What I don't understand is how the Airs do it, because I doubt
they get more than 3 rentals/month in this little
non-destination town of 7,000. Considering the house could lease
long-term for $1800/month, or more, with no cleaning or supplies
required, I can't imagine they are coming out ahead by posting
them on Air. Maybe they'll eventually figure that out!
#Post#: 417--------------------------------------------------
Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: gillumhouse Date: January 3, 2024, 7:42 am
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From what I have been seeing, AIR is losing its "glow". The
current Chair of the Advocacy Committee is in a tourist mecca in
Texas. HE has been approached by AIT owners about buying THEIR
properties - he sys, no thanks. He said there were 8000 AIR in
his area (a large lake area). It is now down by at least 2000.
I have also been seeing comments / articles that people who
bought up a lot of houses are hurting and trying to sell.
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Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: Arks Date: January 3, 2024, 4:44 pm
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[quote author=gillumhouse link=topic=64.msg417#msg417
date=1704289320]
I have also been seeing comments / articles that people who
bought up a lot of houses are hurting and trying to sell.
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Good. Didn't realize people bought houses just to put them on
Air. Fools. Being an innkeeper is definitely not about sitting
back and counting stacks of money!
#Post#: 421--------------------------------------------------
Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: Generic Date: January 3, 2024, 5:28 pm
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Congrats on the first reservation of the year. We have the first
guest of the year on Friday. Of course, we just got back after
taking a few weeks off :D
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Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: JimBoone Date: January 4, 2024, 4:49 am
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[quote author=Arks link=topic=64.msg415#msg415 date=1704235351]
What I don't understand is how the Airs do it, because I doubt
they get more than 3 rentals/month in this little
non-destination town of 7,000. Considering the house could lease
long-term for $1800/month, or more, with no cleaning or supplies
required, I can't imagine they are coming out ahead by posting
them on Air. Maybe they'll eventually figure that out!
[/quote]
I'd just be guessing but having rented both long term and
nightly, I like nightly better, where folks come and go, and you
can find and handle problems quickly. Long term you don't find
the issues until the tenants move and issues have become large,
and that's if they pay the rent.
Business wise, we are blessed to be in a vacation area with a
year-round draw, tiny, not high occupancy but steady, at least
steady enough for me.
#Post#: 425--------------------------------------------------
Re: Woohoo! First Reservation of 2024!
By: gillumhouse Date: January 4, 2024, 10:17 am
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Arks wrote: Good. Didn't realize people bought houses just to
put them on Air. Fools. Being an innkeeper is definitely not
about sitting back and counting stacks of money![i]
There are many small towns near tourist areas that have had
severe housing crises for staff. Investment groups bought up all
the housing stock for AIR and there was no availability of
rentals for employees. They had to go to the next town - an
interesting prospect for employees in ski areas.
Remember the cries from the Jersey Shore from the people who had
bought up 4 and 5 houses to list on AIR when the bottom fell out
of the market and no one had money for vacations? Small towns in
tourist areas have had the reverse - no apartments available for
locals.
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