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By all accounts, Amsterdam has some very restrictive laws when it comes to renting an apartment as a Short Term Rental.
Make sure you are even allowed to do STRs… as to your other questions, booking platforms have pros and cons. There are many threads devoted to these questions already. Plus, quite a few people list on both.
As mentioned, read and understand your local Amsterdam regulations.
There are a great many threads here as well as articles all over the Internet comparing various platforms. Read and understand those, and then come back to us with specific questions, not vague general information requests.
I’m not sure when the terms end in the southern hemisphere but if they are researching Amsterdam I’d think they are in Amsterdam. As for grad program, maybe but even grad students are notorious procrastinators. Maybe if they are working on a thesis or dissertation they would start online with these elementary questions but I hope not.
Thanks for the tips and directions to other discussions on this forum. Just for the record: i’m not a student nor grad doing some university project/research. I’m just new to all this and had no clue where to start, hence these “elementary questions”.
I’ll try to educate myself further by reading some of the existing threads.