Hi Chris
Sorry for only replying to this now, did you ever publish the blog? I run Touch Stay which is a digital guest welcome book. Of course I’d say that any host (and any accommodation provider) should have it! 
Thanks.
Andy
Hey All,
We just launched a new tool to help AirBnB hosts communicate with their guests 24x7. We can respond to inquiries, arrange cleanings, coordinate key exchanges etc. all for a low fixed monthly price.
Check it out:
Also I will be compiling a listing of many of these great tools in a blog article in the near future on our own blog, I’ll post again when I get it up! If you have any special coupons or deals that you want to offer, just reach out to me and I’ll add them! info@vrfrontdesk.com
Greetings!
If you manage more than 1 Airbnb account, you know how frustrating it is to log in and out of your client’s accounts all day and night. Airbnb Concierge businesses are dying beneath mounds of client emails and passwords for their individual Airbnb accounts. Logging in and out of each client’s individual Airbnb account is cumbersome and time consuming.
We’re confident we have a solution for you.
Check us out at:
www.bnbBoss.com
You can also drop us a line any time at hello@bnbBoss.com
Cheers!
Hi Chris,
I’m not sure if this helps your current listing, but I’ve found Airdna is awesome to scout for which areas in your city/town has the most Airbnb listings. From there I figured out where to rent my next apartment.
Hello everyone,
RentingLock is keyless door lock. You can send code to your door via text message or e-mail using our software. Code can be generated for a period of time from 1 hour to 10 days. It saves much time with passing keys to customer. By the way - it’s cheaper than Kwikset - lock costs $1 and there is daily fee of $1.64 for the software - which you can use in the browser or on your phone.
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Hi.
I’ve just released a new website http://www.airportrs.com.
You can use to give your guests options to get to the city centre from airports. We list the options in a clear and simple way (price and time).
Hey everyone! My name is Christian and I work for Airdna (http://www.airdna.co), a company that provides data and analytics to the rental industry. We have created market intelligence reports for over 4,000 neighborhoods, domestic and international, that show vacation rental revenues, occupancy rates, seasonality, and much more.
Lisa,
For the Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver areas you can use airdna.co! They are great for pricing, and they cover the U.S., Canada, and Europe too.
I just published a great new eBook that outlines my process of setting up a space quickly wherever in the world you land!
You can pick up the first chapter of Portable BnB for free over at http://blissylife.com/portable-bnb/
We had talked about offering flowers from our farms. Now wehave special packs and prices of our roses, that go directly to your location, and works really well for decorating, and due to its freshness, you can easily have them last up to 15 days, as long as you take care of them.
I’m Karen, Founder of Citizen Home. We are a marketplace for home goods, at special prices, for hosts, boutique hotels, and BnB’s. Citizen Home is launching January 2016. We’d love any suggestions as well on the things you need as hosts!
www.citizenhome.co
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What a great idea! I am looking forward to seeing you guys launch!
Hi Gang,
For any of you in the Toronto area, we have just launched a cleaning/turnover branch to our successful pro hosting business.
Lots of local hosts were always asking to borrow our cleaners, or just to find good, reliable help to do Airbnb turnovers. They wanted someone that understood that it’s different from a normal cleaning. Anyway, we took that to heart and launched H&P Cleaning!
We made it super easy to book your turnovers or regular cleanings online, without having to fuss with phone calls or emails. There are also discounts for ongoing scheduled cleanings. Check it out and please feel free to PM me with any feedback 
Hi Chris, thanks for the post! I wanted to share our tool’s use case with AirBnB hosts.
Many independent hosts use KeyReply to reply guests on the go with templates on their phones: KeyReply. It’s convenient and simple to get started.
Let me know if you need further info. 
Drop me a line anytime at spencer@keyreply.com
I was very interested in signing up. Then i found that Airbnb is launching their own dynamic pricing tool next month for Free so decided to wait till Jan16. Isnt BP a strategic partner with Airbnb? Not sure what the relationship is but it seems Airbnb’s free service would definitely affect BP’s marketshare. As far as I know only BP and Everbooked offer dynamic pricing service.
Could you please elaborate on what is so complicated? I know our income from bank statements. I know our direct expenses from grocery receipts. Certain other expenses are trickier because you have to depreciate them over a period of years. I tend to just let those go because we’re not making that much anyway. We’re not a multi-room hotel - just simple homeowners with a couple of rooms we let out.
As for other tools, in the past week I’ve needed a screwdriver, a hammer, and a wrench. Oh, and a vacuum cleaner. And some J-cloths.
Hey Chris,
In my day-to-day work, I manage multiple airbnb accounts for our customers and found this tool very useful. It makes it easy to organize your messages into templates and manage all guests from a single place.
I’ve been hosting for about 5 years. I love to travel so more often than not I’m away when my guests arrive. I was always worried that I either forgot to schedule a cleaner for the turn-over, scheduled the cleaner and they forgot… or even in the best-case scenario when my long-standing housekeeper was taking care of my turnover, I worried she would forget an important detail (like cleaning the fridge out or leaving the keys in the lock box). In the past few months I’ve been using an app called Properly (SF based start-up).
Properly is a mobile tool to help you communicate turnover instructions to any hospitality pro. It gives you peace of mind that every last detail was taken care of. What a visual checklist does that your paper turnover checklist CAN’T:
- Notifies you when your housekeeper starts and finishes
- Translates your directions into other languages for you
- Gives you peace of mind even when you’re remote
You can download it for free here: https://goo.gl/KbMR14
FULL DISCLOSURE: I now work for Properly. I started out just testing their app before they launched and loved it so much I accepted a part-time job (I’m still hosting full-time). I’ve been wanting to share this mobile tool with fellow Airbnb hosts but didn’t want to appear sales-y. Just discovered this board and thought it would be an appropriate place to share.
I would love to hear from fellow hosts whether this tool is useful to you. We’re brand new so appreciate any feedback you have.
Cheers,
Lisa
BP integrates with Airbnb. Let me know what you thought about their tips. Most hosts have found them to be significantly lower than what they can actually get and so “free” actually ends up costing them much more than 1% that BP charges, since they are losing money by charging less.