My listing in Calgary, Canada. I get a lot of tourists for Banff and Lake Louise. I also get people going to conferences at the University.
Pitbulls in pajamas give baby goats in sweaters a run for the cuteness title.
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Come stay in Americaās Home Town, Bryson City, North Carolina. Some of the best trails in the USA for all level hikers. White water rafting, tubing, ziplines, trout fishing year round, many shops and restaurants within walking distance of the room, even a brewery and a steam locomotive train to ride!
The three room suite has a bedroom, bathroom and livingroom. There is a full-size murphy bed, jackknife couch, 52" Plasma TV, Microwave, Refrigerator, K-Cup Coffee maker and Toaster. The shower has endless hot water and seating for two. Free WIFI comes with your stay. The suite has a private entrance at the rear of my store and you can come and go as you please. Free assigned parking just steps from your room.
Read our reviews, local guide and description. Fall is just weeks away with the worlds best fall color viewing. We are priced lower than the local motels and our little hide-away is not only in town, its bigger than the hotel rooms. Book now, we are an hour West of Asheville, 10 minutes from Harrahās Casino and the Cherokee Indian Reservation.
This will be the most fun youāve had since you were a kid.
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I strongly recommend you remove the line about not puking in the litter box. That is not a mental picture you want to give people when they are reading your listing. Itās not a mental picture I want to have right at this moment, but I do. Does this happen so often you have to mention it? These weird things are usually one-offs and need not be mentioned.
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It has happened often enough, and itās quite expensive so Iām definitely not removing it. Plus it takes about 4 hours to completely clean it when it does happen.
You can edit everything out in that url from the question mark, including the question mark. You donāt need it.
Often enough? Iām flabbergasted itās happened even once. To be clear, we are talking about a human being throwing up in a cat litter box? Wowza.
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@Jan_J Your central station apartment is beautiful and Iād stay there like a shot if I could afford Norwegian prices!
So I have one question: with such a gorgeous light-filled space and such amazing views, why use for the FIRST picture, which is the thumbnail that appears when people are searching listings, such a boring, though admittedly artistic, photo? It doesnāt do justice to your place and I would skip over it if I was browsing a lot of listings.
Sorry to be blunt, but itās such a beautiful space that I hate to see it not shown at its best in the first photo you see!
Thanks! I just copied the whole link and I wasnāt sure where I could start deleting.
Iāve been short term hosting on and off for 5 years (just started on Airbnb though). And itās happened at least once a year. Trust me, itās a rule I wouldāve never even considered had it not happened more than once.
@Malagachica Iām really glad you like my apartment. You might have a point as I havenāt received too many bookings from Airbnb this season (Iāve had a lot of bookings from other vacation rental sites such as Tripadvisor, Booking.com, Wimdu and Roomorama though). I will try to change the main picture for a while and see if it helps 
Thanks
My listings:
The room:https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/6154244?guests=1&s=8lAsXKOq
The budget option: https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/13725275?guests=1&s=8lAsXKOq
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hey thanks for the informationā¦
Thatās so crazy. I mentioned this to my husband. He says he understands Canadians drink A LOT! Is that why this is happening?
holy macaroni - the first listing - you had me at the first photo. Stunning. I want to go to there.
Well written, very clear. I would book with you immediately. And that says a lot. I always have questions when looking at listings.
Iāve saved you to my wish list but I donāt see Scotland on my horizon, sadly.
OK, now youāre killing me - the tent? Iām retiring here. Block off your calendar for, ummm, 2026, lol!!!
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Awww thanks!! Iām in my second year now, and both listings are fully booked for the season, Iām taking a lot less room bookings this year and prioritising those groups I like which are basically either families, or multiple night bookings. As we are a family house, its easier to have people with kids that understand that the kitchen is ālived inā!
The Tent this year was a new addition and its perfect low impact (from a house point of view) way of providing accomodation to people. Budget options in the Highlands are very few and far between, so bookings are good. My only problem with this experiment this year is the arrival time, and I plan to narrow that because its really disruptive to the bedtime routine Iām waiting around from 4pm. Its been interesting that the tent is mostly booked by 2xfemale travellers together. Usually the 18-25 age group.
I thought crofts were things of myth and legend, found in the novels of John Buchan. But apparently people actually live in them. And rent them out too!
We do drink a lot but itās not the Canadians who do it. Lol it has been Aussies, but I cater to a younger crowd mostly so canāt be too mad about it. I did take your advice and removed it, but I also moved the litter to a more discreet location.
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@Carmen, @Sarah_Warren , @jaquo
Dear Fellow Hosts,
Iād love your insight on my listing and your helpful advice on how I can improve it. Whatās a little unique is that my unit is in a condo-hotel, that is, I own a unit at a hotel and I have the choice of living in my apartment, adding my apartment to the āhotel management programā (with the hotel keeping 50%+), or managing the rentals myself. My challenge is that in order to pay the mortgage, building maintenance fee, insurance, etc, I have to meet a monthly rental goal and right now my unit is not occupied 100% of the time. Your valuable input is much appreciated, thank you.
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First thoughts: I had to scroll through a dozen photos before I saw any interior shots. You have almost 20 pictures of outdoor things, and many are very repetitive. I would have your first picture as the bed. Make it inviting. Then I would remove over half of your non-apartment pictures. Half of them are low quality and look like a screen-shot. Makes me think of something out of tourist literature. People are booking to stay in your room, so focus on that. One shot of the lobby, the pool, the gym, but the rest is overkill.
Otherwise your listing looks great. I good middle ground for people used to hotel stays, but wanting something a little different. The pictures are the main thing people look through, so get them down to half of what you currently have and focus on the highest quality, applicable shots and youāll be golden there. You truly have some good pictures, theyāre just lost in the shuffle.
And you could maybe trim your rules a bit, the bullet points are great for easy reading, but you can abbreviate them a bit and still convey the same info.
With your price point and what you offer, itās kinda surprising youāre not more booked. My main thought is again pictures too cumbersome to get through so they move on, and maybe restructure your pricing a bit. Raise your nightly rate a little and lower your cleaning fee, and then your deposit seems high. Especially with how much you mention charging your deposit, I would be worried about that. I would remove all talk about charging the deposit from your rules to the very bottom and just say something like āany costs resulting from a violation of the rules will get charged against the depositā. Seeing the wording āthe cost will be deducted from your security depositā so often and then the $425 deposit makes me think that I can count on that money being gone.
I hope that all makes sense, I realize I basically wrote a bookā¦
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One must never underestimate the power of a wide angle lens in marketing photos! Your place looks amazing! Is it really that white? I love Noosa!
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