3 Properties in 7 Months – Getting Started on AirBnB

As many of you know, Heather and I have been hard at work on not one, not two, but THREE rental properties in Philadelphia! All of which are short term rentals on AirBnB.

As we’ve shared photos through social media many of you have reached out to ask us questions about the process.

How do you pick the location?
Why so many properties?
Is this going to stop you fron traveling?

Today, Heather joins me to answer these questions and more as we give you an overview of our process for selecting, furnishing, and listing our short-term rental properties.

Got more questions about rentals? Let me know @ExtraPackofPeanuts!!

Today’s episode has been sponsored by our friends at Tortuga Backpacks!

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In This Episode

  • 6:42 What do we own?
  • 11:30 Why AirBnB speaks to our strengths
  • 15:00 How we chose the location
  • 25:00 Furnishing a place
  • 33:05 Listing th house
  • 38:15 Instant book or no?
  • 40:11 Lessons learned: How much do you want to do?
  • 48:26 Welcome gifts

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2016 Year in Review: Stats and Superlatives

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Every year we spend (a little too much) time searching through our emails to find out where we were every night that year. Figuring out how many miles we traveled, how many miles we flew, how many beds we slept in, and of course how many countries and states we visited.

Even though that takes us hours of work, it only takes up about 10 minutes of audio. Not quite fair! So we pair it with something else. Our superlatives.

What were the best hotels, the worst hotels? What was the craziest thing we did this year? The most underwhelming? The most surprising?

Listen to today’s episode to find out!

There will be two more 2016 in Review episodes coming over the next couple of weeks, our best food & drinks as well as our best experiences, so stay tuned!

How many places did you sleep in 2016? Let us know if you beat us this year! Message us on Instagram at @ExtraPackofPeanuts!!

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In This Episode

  • 03:00 Getting the stats
  • 06:00 Miles Flown & Overland
  • 09:00 The accommodations
  • 12:00 The countries & states
  • 17:00 The superlatives begin!
  • 17:00 The best/worst accommodations
  • 31:06 The best/worst flights
  • 32:32 The craziest thing we did this year
  • 36:11 The best thing we bought
  • 38:37 Biggest charge in travel style
  • 40:52 The most unexpected thing
  • 45:52 The most underwhelming
  • 48:30 The neatest people we met
  • 51:32 The mishaps this year

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Our Experience as AirBnB Hosts

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When we travel, we rent a LOT of AirBnBs.

So we decided to give it a shot ourselves but from the other side.

Today we want to share our experiences as AirBnB landlords, and some tips and tricks we’ve learned along the way.

We’ll discuss how to price your property, how to create a good listing, and the little touches that you can do to make it so that you can successfully rent out your place, even if you don’t live in a “hot” area.

Making money while you travel from renting out your place is one of the best things you can do!

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Interested in becoming learning how to travel more, work from anywhere, and generally get more freedom? Check out The Paradise Pack, launching this June!

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In This Episode

  • 06:00 We don’t live in a busy area, so we thought.
  • 13:00 Things we still want to improve on
  • 20:00 The question of pricing.
  • 23:25 Managing your AirBnB account & creating a standout profile.
  • 30:45 The joys of renting your place.
  • 37:50 AirBnB versus Long time rental properties
  • 39:00 The Paradise Pack!

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The Paradise Pack Sessions 5-11

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The Paradise Pack Sessions continue today with 7 more interviews with experts on fields like travel, location independence, and lifestyle entrepreneurship!

Enjoy!

Today’s sessions include:

Nat and Jodie from Housesitting Academy
Jesse Kreiger from Lifestyle Entrepreneur
Tim Leffel from Cheap Living Abroad
Sherry Ott the founder, Meet Plan Go and Ottsworld
Sean Keener of BootsnAll
Caz Makepeace from Y Travel Blog
and finally, the Traveling Dutchman, Jasper Ribbers

To download the episodes just click on the one you’d like to listen to! These will also be available via stitcher and iTunes as usual!

If you want to get the Paradise Pack before it’s gone, make sure to check it out here! After 11:59 P.M. PST on June 7th, it’ll be gone! Forever!

The Opportunistic Traveler – Part 2

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Evo is back for part 2 of this awesome interview! Click here to listen to part 1 if you missed it!

Today we discuss the biggest challenges of long term travel, a great way to find out if this lifestyle is really for you, and an awesome way to reframe some of the negative commentaries from friends and family that don’t understand what you’re doing.

We also discuss a topic that is much beloved by our listeners, relationships on the road. Evo discusses some of the strengths and weaknesses that he and his wife have, and how their roles have changed in their marriage since leaving their default lifestyle behind.

To cap it off Evo shares a to travel more, and spend less, that hasn’t come up in 159 episodes of the EPoP Travel Podcast!

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In This Episode:

  • 02:13 The biggest challenge.
  • 11:32 How do you know if this lifestyle is for you?
  • 18:45 But I’m already situated!
  • 22:57 Dealing with negative responses from friends & family.
  • 26:00 Relationships on the road
  • 34:40 Travel more, spend less. A tip we haven’t heard yet.
  • 38:00 Feather mishaps.

and much more!

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