I don’t have a prime location so I’m trying to market for 3-6 month rentals until next summer. There seems to be demand for interim housing while the new home is being built.
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Snowbirds passing through are my one-night bread and butter and I’m not booked either.
The folks down the street at $30 a night are booked solid.
I’m getting a local or two coming through for various reasons, but it’s ground to a halt here, too, in the booming South Shore area of Tampa. I usually get a lot of women or couples coming to stay to look in on their new construction homes or to look in the neighborhood.
Now it’s crickets.
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Comments made by several posters in this topic describe similar scenarios to ourselves, one year ago here in Spain.
We had the worst Autumn ever, a few bookings here and there, and all exclusively domestic guests.
This year however, with a vaccination rate in Andalucía of around eighty percent (single dose only slightly less) things are very different. Our infection rate here locally is now 30 per 100k, and the schools have now been open (always a concern) for around three weeks.
We’ve kept a higher minimum stay than before and so far, it’s our best September ever, we’ve been rammed. October is around sixty five percent full and I fully expect that figure to rise
What is refreshing is that we’ve seen a good number of international guests over the past wee while, UK, Germany, Poland, Ireland and in situ just now, a Dutch couple.
Got bugger all for November, but that’s not unusual as it’s always a quiet month here. If the weather is bad, we might consider closing until the Xmas stuff starts first week in December.
JF
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Real estate agents are amongst the best contacts to cultivate. There are people who are coming for a week to house hunt in the area, plus those who are waiting for their homes to be finished. Sometimes a guest will come during the week to look at houses, then return the following week with their spouse to tour the short-list houses.
Although my Airbnb maximum is 21 days, I will rent for longer (off Airbnb) if the guests are vouched for by the agent. 
Another lucrative group to target are local people who are having work done on their homes or, as often happens here, having their homes tented.
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It’s not so much the number of cases in an area that would keep me away, it’s that I wouldn’t want to go to an area where there are so many anti-maskers and masks aren’t required to enter stores and public places. It’s the state policies that are a big factor, not the number of cases. Plus I’m not taking business to those states. Let them suffer financially. Sorry for the individuals who that effects, but those governors got elected by the majority of the populace. That has consequences.
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Reminded me of this from the Guardian:
I suppose this illustrates the difference in how countries/states handle things. Here, you can’t even get into a restaurant if you’re not wearing a mask. It is rigidly enforced.
JF
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We canceled a one wk condo booking in Sanibel, FL due to Delta concerns. I would book a private home with pool right now but those have minimum 28 night restrictions in Sanibel which I can’t do since kids are no longer attending school online.
We are avoiding resorts and condo complexes for awhile.
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Yes. I believe that the max is 28 days here so I leave seven days to get them out in the event of anything awkward happening. However, you said that you’re a new host so I want to assure you that I’ve never had any trouble with people not leaving. It was an extra precaution but I’ve never needed it.
I’m in Fort Lauderdale. I don’t know the Miami market but I imagine it’s similar to here with tourists, events, cruise passengers, businesses and so on.
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Ah! And there it is. This isn’t the forum to peddle your bullshit supplements vs covid
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@Homespring Supplements are not the answer, it’s being vaxxed, wearing a mask, social distancing and avoiding crowds inside. Please, get real.
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Another Pro-Covid fool who is keeping us from being safe. With billions vaccinated worldwide, safely, we all share our tots and pears that these ‘google experts’ get just what they deserve.
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You know I DID ‘look it up’ just now and Dr. Google tells us that you are selling quack cures. Please leave here, this forum is dedicated to honesty and reality.
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Yes, of course my dear.
Clown.
JF
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