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I like this idea and will be interested to see what comes of it.
I notice the host, Kristie, who is on the panel to judge ideas averages 4.85 on her ratings across 4 properties. When you have a unique property it’s harder to “underpromise and overdeliver.”
wow. 1 night to stay in her Hobbit House is $858 AUD, i’m surprised she has even 4.5* for value. It looks awesome, kudos to her for building this and getting LOTR fans to part with their money.
The potato house is $550aud for one night. she’s pretty much fully booked.
Estimated revenue9651 AUD/month, based on next 90 days
Occupancy rate89% for next 90 days
Average daily rate**$337** for next 90 days
pretty easy turnover, and she does overnight stays too, there’s def a market for this stuff.
It’s nice to see Airbnb also support hosts whose Airbnb’s don’t look like an IKEA or West Elm showroom.
I have just applied!!! I hope to build on another section of our acre. A shaded outdoor kitchen, huge patio, with enclosed Br, Ba, Lv and little infinity pool!!! need $$$!
btw I have not found it difficult to overdeliver, even with the best photos everyone is just stunned. I also think, when booking an unusual place, guests are predisposed to love it, have really checked it all out etc, or they wouldn’t book.
aw fff now to get my hub on board 
I have more of a sense of dread now than I did for y2k, 9/11, bubble/crash of 2008 or the pandemic. No way I’m investing in niche rentals.
My good friend in New Zealand has taken a job in San Marcos. So, after a bit of a hiatus from spending much time in Central TX it’s looks like I’ll become re-acquainted with it.
Yeah, my friend went to A&M for Master’s and PhD and lived most of the 90’s in College Station. But the region has changed a lot and it will be interesting to see how she adapts. She’s the kind who isn’t really happy anywhere so I guess it doesn’t matter.
isn’t it tricky to plan a road trip around them, cos you need to input dates to even see places. you’d have to plan months in advance, and even then you could miss something if your dates are unlucky
This to me is the downfall of search. you can’t just see everything that’s in a local area. My dates are flexible (but NOT in a “week, weekend or month” way).
it’s a lot for something with a queen sized bed… we are designing 2 new couples only spaces, not quite OMG level but def going to be themed and hopefully WOW. Def will have a king bed.
yes I applied too. We have an old concrete round water tank on our farm that we’ve dreamed about turning into accomm, I think it fits the OMG category quite well.
We have double size beds. They have high quality linens and goose down duvets. No one has ever commented on the bed size. We have had some tall couples too!
Good luck with your contest winning and new constructions! I have known a few water tank homes! I love round homes.
It was was a fun exercise to apply<><>… dreaming… I also have another 750 sq ft adu designed… our house, trailer zone, outdoor pavillion and adu each on their own private area of our million dollar view acre. Somehow with the giant rocks and elevations, it will be someday great!
Recent guest photo
This was the case even before this latest mess. For example, there’s an Airbnb I stayed at in PHX in 2018. I’ve searched PHX several times since then and it doesn’t show up unless I zoom way in. Sometimes even when pretty well zoomed in. For years you can watch listings pop up and disappear as you move around on the map.
Part of the problem is that there are so many listings in cities now that there’s no way to show them all at one time. And for rural areas they start out so zoomed out that you can be quite far from where you want to go. And if you don’t know where you want to go you are completely at the mercy of Airbnb’s latest search whim.
It works in my favor that I’m looking for a specific date 99+% of the time. I also am looking for a specific town and usually a specific neighborhood. If I have to do something like drive across country and don’t know when and where I’ll stop I’ll just do hotels. Airbnb is way too hard to use for that, imo.
I’d love to eventually just say “hey, I just want to find a super cool place to go and I don’t care when I go or how long I stay.” Then maybe the new Airbnb will work great.
Will that be before or after you get gifted with a brand new Porsche? 
Definitely before. I’m mentally working on getting to that point even though I’m far from reality. I was doing well on the plan to cut back on dog boarding but now between the stock market being down, inflation and looming recession I realize it’s bad timing. I need to keep making money while I’m physically able to do so.
thank you! We are at least not doing something ridiculous, we’ve had this plan for ages, to repurpose this amazing space, on our farm.
$48k over 4 years? I think I’ll stick to my normal listings that don’t cost $500k to build out.
“Globally, the median earnings for an OMG! Category Host active between Jan 2018 and May 2022 was just over $48,000”
(from fine print of the OMG fund page)
