Airbnb: The Hardest Part of Being a Host

The hardest part of hosting short term rentals if you’re hosting with all your heart. Our #1 Hosting Challenge For us, the hardest part of owning a short-term rental/being a host has very little do with the actual physical aspects of running the business. The hardest part is the (once in a while) unhappy guest.  Can’t Pleasing Every Single Human Being It’s important to understand and accept that everyone will not love everything you do. And we get it. But it just isn’t any fun when something is not 100% pleasing to our guest, especially when it’s either something we can’t remedy because it’s a permanent fixture of our space, or it’s something we weren’t given the change to remedy (because we weren’t told during the guest’s stay). A case on Point I remember one group we had as guests over a year ago where this was the case. We could sense they weren’t totally thrilled with something, but despite our efforts to make sure they knew we were always here for anything at all, they never mentioned any problem.  Sidenote: We make it a very important message to our guests – and let them know in *many* different ways […]

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