Los angeles live-in airbnb property manager

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Hi all!

I am a live-in airbnb property manager, and I am looking for an opportunity in Los Angeles!

I would manage the home, coordinate with guests, do light cleaning and hospitality/manage cleaners who come to deep clean, and more, in exchange for a room (no pay necessary).

Please let me know if you or any hosts you know are interested!

Thank you,
Kate

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So what happened to your current gig?

This is an international forum so maybe better to find a local FB page or CL

Good luck

RR

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What a creative way to find a free place to live…:joy:

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So tell us about your experience @katherine8, why should a host consider you as a live in co host?

RR

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I was kinda wondering if there is actually a market for this type of host in LA. Since LA passed the law that a property must be the primary residence of the host (not necessarily the owner), hiring live-in property managers for each property might be the way for owners of multiple properties to continue doing short-term rentals. Seems like it might work for homes with 4 or 5 individual rooms for rent, or even luxury listings where a live-in host could serve as housekeeper/concierge/driver/etc.

I’m really curious what Kate is expecting.

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Like @RiverRock I’m interested to hear about her qualifications and experience.

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Well she gets 1 star for communication, this is good to know ahead of time that she does not follow up in a timely manner. Seemingly this is important to her yet no follow up. I would be pretty upset if my co-host if this is how she communicated with guests.

Hmmm

RR

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Good point. It does make me wonder how experienced she is with Airbnb. I’m wondering what ‘light cleaning and hospitality’ is.

I know that it’s impossible to really get the measure of someone from a brief message but it doesn’t sound as if she’s prepared to do very much.

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Maybe she is prepared to move in and dust and be hospitable.

Because that’s worth a free room.

RR

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I was hope for Kate or some LA host will chime in. It really seams viable for the right property. Think about an owner of a 4-bedroom house that wants to do short-term rental for each room. Giving up one room for a live-in host is about the same as paying 20% + cleaning fee to property manager if the live-in host does the necessary cleaning and everything else that a property manager would do. If the host spent 3-hours per day on all of the cleaning and hosting duties, it would be reasonable compared to how much of an average person’s working day goes toward paying rent.

The catch is that the host still needs a source of income for the host’s other expenses. I think it could be a good job for someone that works part time from home, a retiree, or a variety of other situations. The law not requiring the resident host to also be the owner makes it seem like this scenario was planned.

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The splendid thing about such a set up, from the guests’ point of view, is that the ‘manager’ would be on the spot to keep the house in great condition and clean common areas such as the bathroom. They’d make sure that supplies were kept up (loo paper, toiletries, stuff in the shared kitchen etc.) and resolve any problems that might crop up.

The host should get great reviews for that sort of service as long as the manager is the right sort of person with a strong background in this sort of thing.

Obviously some weeks, she’d spend far more time than others - if there are more turnovers, if there are needy guests, if there are maintenance issues, if there are guests who are careless in the bathroom and so on. But other weeks would be less arduous so it would probably balance out.

The manager would probably have the be the official co-host at Airbnb because she’d have to be the one who writes the reviews and the person who communicates with the guest pre-stay. She’d probably have to do the ordering of consumables and so on too.

I’m not 100% sure that three hours a day would do it though, Brian. In a 4 bed house there could sometimes be three turnovers in one day. (I sometimes do two in a day - full apartments - and it’s a bit of a killer).

How much would the rent be for a room in LA as a long term tenant? It seems to me that three hours a day would mean that the manager would be working for a very low ‘hourly rate’ but I don’t know what the current room rental prices are.

I’m wondering too about the legality as regards tenancy. The manager would presumably have a proper rental agreement. Even with that, if I was the house owner I’d be worried about being left high and dry and co-host-less if the manager suddenly decided to move on.

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And coordinate the actual cleaners…when she can be bothered to communicate. Again, looking for a free ride.