In this article I want to give you a short but thorough understanding of, in my opinion, good locations to run Airbnb or short-term rentals and also bad locations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the saying goes, the location will have a huge amount to do with your success. Put another way you could have the most wonderful property ever, but if it doesn\u2019t have any footfall, he won\u2019t make any money from it.<\/strong> (See this article on making more money from your short term rental<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Avoid holiday cottages<\/strong> in remote locations. On the face of a distance sounds like a good idea as people love cottages in idyllic places, however, it also presents some problems: <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. City centers<\/strong> near rowdy pubs and nightclubs: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you want your property to be occupied by people who have been out having a lot of fun? I would think not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The obvious implication here is on maintenance<\/a>. Like it or not, alcohol-fuelled parties are not conducive to well-looked-after lets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The other problem with city center locations is parking. In my experience divorce majority of people who have stayed with my properties have come by car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re in a city centre location unless you have allocated parking this presents a problem for your guests<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Low traffic locations<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If your property is not in a relatively built-up area (to attract family members staying, for example) and business<\/a> travelers staying at local businesses, and there aren\u2019t other significant pull factors for people to occupy your property, then you may find that there’s insignificant footfall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One way around this of course is to do your research into other short-term rental<\/a>, Airbnb, and hotels. If there are many, then there probably isn\u2019t a market, so my advice would be to avoid this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good locations for an Airbnb are likely to fulfill multiple markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What do I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one of the most counterintuitive concepts for people to understand who haven\u2019t run a business before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If there is lots of competition, that means there\u2019s a big market. In my case, there is a lot of competition in the town, but I\u2019ve been lucky enough to secure a location that is absolutely premium, meaning the location sells itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t have to fill my apartments<\/a> with Amazon Alexa devices and brand-new fitted kitchens, the location sells itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, if you have lots of competition, the challenge that your face is being better than the rest<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This really isn\u2019t that difficult to accomplish. Book into the competitors for a night or two, see what they offer, look at their reviews<\/a>, and get a real feeling for the actual experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will then give you all that you need to design your offering to be better than the competition, and once you have enough reviews to price yourself more highly than other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you found this article useful. You may also find the following articles helpful too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Location, Location, Location As the saying from the renowned hotelier Conrad Hilton goes to be successful in property it\u2019s all about “Location, Location, Location.” In this article I want to give you a short but thorough understanding of, in my opinion, good locations to run Airbnb or short-term rentals and also bad locations. As the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674,1701,20,232],"tags":[1716],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airbnb","category-all","category-getting-started","category-making-money","tag-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Locations to Avoid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"airbnb](\"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/idyllic-airbnb-cottage-1024x901.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"airbnb](\"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/city-center-aribnb-1024x683.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"low](\"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/airbnb-ghost-town-1024x680.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGood locations for an Airbnb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"great](\"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/good-airbnb-location-1024x472.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNever be afraid of the competition.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"short](\"https:\/\/shortrentalpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/competition-1024x683.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n