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[Burkmere]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

We agree. I do NOT consider a damage deposit enough motivation for someone to feel the need to care of my place. I trusted my instincts and interviewed everyone before I let them rent (how you do that is too involved for the scope of this post). Also, Google is a Godsend. I'd know all about a person before they rented from me (and even before we physically talked). If someone's email address was JoeBlow1973@hotmail.com, I'd google joebloe1973@gmail.com, joeblow1973@yahoo.com etc. People are creatures of habit. Then you connect some pieces of the puzzle to others and add more when you talked on the phone. It takes 20 minutes a person and I got rather good at it. Doing so, I found pictures of a "girls weekend" with drunk people standing on the table (drinks in hand) for a picture taking moment. I learned a renter was on a pornsite talking about when his fetishes are with kids, etc. So mysteriously those weeks 'might" were going to be used by me (I wasn't sure yet so I left the calendar open OR ....)

I rented for several hundreds of thousands of $$'s in rent for many years. Total damage: $300ish plus a damaged prop on our pontoon boat. Everyone took incredible care of it. The damage was an accident (burnt countertop because of a curling iron and a broken fainting bed that was fixed because the guy was too damn fat). Part of the technique is to "connect" with the renter before they arrive. Also, you need to have a much nicer place as compared to your direct competition (and charge accordingly) to weed out the riffraff.

So I would not be comfortable with renting to just anyone and therefore I would not participate in VRBO or AirBNB in 2016. Although I would be comfortable renting from someone on VRBO and AirBNB. I would be using vacationrentals.com and other smaller sites where you still have control.

That's all well and good. And I appreciated your answer to my first post. It was very well thought out and detailed. But please start your own thread if you want to talk about The perils of a landlord listing on certain websites. That's not what I originally posted about. Thank you.

[Voebe]

It's never too late unless you're overly picky. Many people simply arrive and book something starting the following week. But if you're staying a month or two, you might like to try avenues other than Airbnb - perhaps an actual realtor.

[Burkmere]

Originally Posted by Voebe

It's never too late unless you're overly picky. Many people simply arrive and book something starting the following week. But if you're staying a month or two, you might like to try avenues other than Airbnb - perhaps an actual realtor.

Thank you.

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Originally Posted by Burkmere

That's all well and good. And I appreciated your answer to my first post. It was very well thought out and detailed. But please start your own thread if you want to talk about The perils of a landlord listing on certain websites. That's not what I originally posted about. Thank you.

I don't appreciate the lecture. In threads like these, many drift some. To me, that makes it interesting. Without it being interesting, I won't bother reading or contributing. I officially lost interest in your thread and you are on your own.

[Burkmere]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

I don't appreciate the lecture. In threads like these, many drift some. To me, that makes it interesting. Without it being interesting, I won't bother reading or contributing. I officially lost interest in your thread and you are on your own.

Ok, maybe I was wrong to ask to please keep the topic related to my original post...whatever. No problem. Just to remind you, I prefaced my desire to keep it on topic with this. .

"That's all well and good. And I appreciated your answer to my first post. It was very well thought out and detailed"

Then it morphed into a discussion about how landlords would never use Airbnb and then there were a few posts about that ... and it was getting totally away from the topic that I posted about. Again, thanks for your detailed and thoughtful answers. I'm sorry that you won't be contributing to the topic anymore. I'm sure there are many others that are willing to help out with my original post.

[Potential_Landlord]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

I don't appreciate the lecture. In threads like these, many drift some. To me, that makes it interesting. Without it being interesting, I won't bother reading or contributing. I officially lost interest in your thread and you are on your own.

Thanks for your advise. I appreciate it.