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Not a joke. I started Airbnb on a bit of a whim. I was boarding dogs in my home as well as teaching in high school full time. This limited the number of days I could book out but it still exceeded my expectations. I decided to retire from teaching and within a few months I decided to make a $16,000 investment in my Airbnb by adding onto the front of my house to put a bathroom, separate entrance and to extend the front porch. I do feel that the investment paid off. I was able to now offer the room almost all the time because the guests would no longer be in my part of the house.
Your calculation is different of course but bathroom renos are one of the best investments to make.
There are other ways to make the bathroom more usable. You have a closet so put the occasional stuff in there ā Iām not looking at the pictures but I think there were some things that could be moved to make some room. Iād rather someone use a hair straightener in there than put it on bedroom furniture. There are also clever solutions for baskets to hold hair stuff that hang with hooks, so check those out.
Could you add a narrow (6"-8") shelf along the left side of and attached to the vanity?
The other idea: create a custom shelf with the brackets ABOVE it instead of under it (with shelf very securely attached so it wonāt come apart) and put it right above tile and under mirror with brackets on either side of mirror? So itāll sorta look like: _ l______l _
You could do same above toilet and under that shelf unit if you wanted a bit extra.
I agree about the good advice here. I learned really quickly in my research (I did about a year and a half of research while working on the place before going live) that any question I had, no matter the question or the OTA platform I had the question about, this forum was within the first 4 search results and had the best, most thorough information with ample contrasting and supporting view points, so I just stopped looking anywhere else for information eventually. Iām laughing right now at an earlier thread I was reading where someone brand new to the forum (and not too adept at the hospitality thing, apparently) called this place an āecho chamberā. I found that amusing because I find this forum useful in the fact that itās the opposite of an āecho chamberā in my experience. So many ways people are doing it, so many different markets, so many different types of offerings. If it was an āecho chamberā I wouldnāt be here because it would be useless to me. I love the diversity of thought and practice I find here.
Which is why if you intend to do this, you only open your calendar up for a few weeks and set the maximum stay at three or four days (or slightly more if thatās what your market requires). Once youāve got three (or four in case of a cancellation) confirmed bookings, put your rates back up, change the max stay to what you want and open your calendar dates to your preferred advance period.
Welcome! Iām not on here much but you will find help. If nothing else you see how lucky youāve been with your guests! I canāt believe some of the horror stories people post. Well I know they arenāt making them up, they are just hard to believe lol! Iāve just completed my 6th year on airbnb. Overall I have to say the guests have been great. No real train wrecks but I think location has a lot to do with that. Iām outside Yellowstone Park which isnāt the regular destination for spring break lol! I started out renting one room and private bath. I got mostly couples and once in a while a solo traveler. Last summer I opened up the other bedroom in my walk out basement and let more people in. I rented them together but upped the price. I thought Iād try it. It wasnāt worth it. Twice as much work for a few more dollars. Iāve returned to the original listing. I donāt depend on my income and donāt want to work that hard.
I love the south and am planning a trip there soon. Which book is Americus, Georgia in? It sounds so familiar but I canāt place it.
Good luck!
But they do it all the time on the vanity and back of toilet. I donāt see how have a shelf appreciably increases the danger. Of course all GCFI receptacles in the bathroom must be installed.
But i often see outlets in hotels located within a foot to the side of sink on the wall and i think the chances of an item that is placed on countertop next to sink has a greater chance of ending up in there than if it were 18"-24" above sink.
And - i think that shelf would most often hold toothpaste, mouthwash, etc than a curling iron.
The reason i suggested wall mounted was because it would likely look better and have better support as vanity may be particleboard type and thus not suitable for add-on shelf.
We just got our place up and going 2 weeks ago. We are in Macon Ga. We also contemplated this for about 2 years. Already got a long term guest for 3 months. Kinda glad for this as it will give us time to purchase other little things we may need to make the place more enticing. Hoping I can learn a lot from you guys on this forum.
Best of luck with that. Many here would have advised against that but too late now. Best of luck, for all the jerks here (Iām one of the biggest) this really is one of the most knowledgeable groups.
This is great advice. I didnāt do it and as a result, one of my first bookings was for the full eclipse months out, only I hadnāt realized it was going to happen just yet but the savvy traveler knew. So I got well below what I could have charged and they got a steal!
