So, i called Airbnb to report a party that involved drugs at 2am after multiple neighborly calls. 1 day later i noticed my listing had been unlisted by Airbnb because my claim was under investigation??? What!!! So 5 days later they tell me after i made multiple calls that I had not disclosed cameras. I sent screenshots showing that i did disclose it, not only in house rules but also in my descriptions… what do you know, now they got back to me and said that wasnt enough because now i had to disclose wether im recording or not.. whaaattt… so for the purpose of the listing i added ti the description that I am recording for the safety of the home 24/7 and in order to get my listing reactivated they made me write to them that i agree with what i did and that they would notate my account for future reference…. Meanwhile my listing was down almost a week. They never sent an email notifying me of their actions… THATS ABUSE OF POWER…

@Muhammad-civildoc

Ай бұрын

Oh, it is so sad.

Your speech on mastery before automation is stellar!

Honestly, I have watched multiple videos on youtube & I know for a fact you are one of the best at what you do. No one gives lots of free content like you! Planing to enroll in your coaching soon!

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that big compliment

OMG Sean YES To the legal knowledge on how to fight a bad review. I used to have to do it every now and then when I ran my Amazon store, but Airbnb guests are a whole other level I’m sure

Hey Sean. Big fan. I think I speak behalf of all of us by saying don't change anything sir. Let the other guys tryin to be funny like Rob annoying editing. Those who stick around are here to educate themselves on STR and not being entertained. Keep it real my man. I'll see you on the next Burning man 🔥

"The rate is the highest that you could have gotten for that night!" 💡 My motto! Empty beds do not bring in any money.

Excellent content Sean! Great value. Thanks so much. ❤

Great knowledge Sean. I’ll need to see if this is possible in my country. Hope to get started on this soon.

Thanks so much! I learned from you and started with 2 apartments this year. Economy does change and I have to reduce 50% of the rent after September. My bookings are still ahead of similar listings in the area but the profit is very thin. I am hoping next year will be better.

Thanks Sean Constantly Learning from You!

Thank you this is really helpful. I began following you about 3 months ago. I have a condo is central Dakar senegal I've followed many of the advise given and implemented a many. I've always had issue with pricing and will diffinatley watch again keep up the good work and thank you

Excellent points! Your videos are the best!!!

Great content, as always!

First, let me say THANK YOU for the insight. Second, thank you for the FREE insight. Third, I've been researching STR Avenues for a couple weeks now. After watching about 10 hours of KZread videos (yours and others), researching my city/ competitors, watching the price trends, crunching my numbers, and budgeting best and worse case scenarios, I've decided to start by using my own home first so I can get my feet wet. Then I'll gradually venture out to properties that I have to pay for. But I thank God I found your videos and did the research. I almost signed a lease for a property and after the research and number crunching, it looks like that would've been a mistake seeing as how there are over 400 AIRBNB's in my city. With competitive prices, it'd take me 15 months to break even. And that's "best case scenario". So thank you for the information and promoting the importance of research and basic order of operations in such a business. The way my home is set up, it's much more appealing than what I would be able to accomplish in a 2 BR townhouse. And I have to pay for and clean that no matter what lol. So I might as well start there instead of investing 5 to 7k in somewhere else.

@airbnbcleaningspecialist

Жыл бұрын

I'm doing the same thing. Best of success to you 🙂

Bro, so much value all the time. Thank you

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I'm Here for you Fam

@anujdatta6162

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated Rob always tells me I got to meet you. I will make it a point to do so next STR event. Thank you again.

You didn't "retire", man, you're still working really hard. You changed jobs for a better one. 👍

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I did discover that I can’t stop “doing”

A beautiful philosophy: excellence & mastery first, then leadership and only after these two begin to think about automation.

Love your tan Sean 😘 Thank you for your wealth on knowledge been a subscriber since 2019

Looking forward to that video 😃👍

Oh man, I'm saving this one too 😄 thanks Sean 😊

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

happy to help fam

This is so cool! Watching always from Tanzania 🇹🇿

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for dialing in!

What are your thoughts on not having a cleaning fee? Have you ever removed the cleaning fee and worked that fee into the nightly price with any of your properties?

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

video coming soon

@TheMattLeighton

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated awesome! Looking forward to it. Thanks for all the content/strategies!

@rinagetsreal6189

Жыл бұрын

I'm curious about that too. I know on the consumer side I have gotten PISSED when I see the cleaning fee bc we just don't make a big enough mess to justify AND it makes me WANT to leave the place a mess if I do end up booking. I'm always a fan of "build it in" instead of nickel and dime-ing.

Love to hear more about a risk score. I have 4 bedrooms and heard from other local hosts don’t go below a certain threshold or you get bad guests. I tested the waters and went lower and had mixed experiences. Curious to hear more on that front

@kimberiysmarketstrategy

Жыл бұрын

I just go over the rules ahead of time, then do a personal check in charge extra for cleaning or smoking , ask for id then tell them the camera checks for guests (amount verification) lastly , have a great weekend! I’ve have not had many issues

Love your videos- this is airbnb for dummies.

Automation... All about process excellence If you automate a crappy process.. you end up with a crappy automated process..

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Man that’s a bomb drop mike

Thank You! this is so helpful. I just discovered today that I had a few little things stolen. Like 2 black wash cloth with beautiful embroidery that says MAKEUP and 2 pink toilet papers for decoration. Should I mention that to the guest or but in a claim for the washcloths or just let it go. I also had one other guest stole a white soup bowl. THE NERVE OF THERE PEOPLE., CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE .

@CFinch360

Жыл бұрын

It's a cost of doing business, If you say "I can't have anything nice" then it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Sean - this contained more benefit than an MBA!!! WTF dude....insaaaaaane value!!! We appreciate you - God bless

@AirbnbAutomated

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for saying so!

Appreciate all the knowledge man!

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@MaxwellTheDude

Жыл бұрын

Should we leave them a positive, honest review? Or completely honest and low* review? Just in order to see if they actually left a 5* review.

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

You can leave whatever review suits the guest.

You’re awesome men !!!!🎉

Sean you’re so fun 🎉

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

yay! 😁

I am glad it worked for you. You got in at the perfect time. Let’s hope this another perfect time to hold on. I removed a positive review that didn’t like the neighborhood. The neighborhood is all retired but older. Not wild. I still sit a 4.8 because of them. They said they removed it. I was 100% I am a small airbnb’er. I do have logistical and set up experience as a general contractor to turn key in central Texas for others. Mine are not apartments because this area is loaded with construction developers. Over pricing duplexes when they sho😮le get their asses off city council and sit on the porch 😂. Anyway, being here and offering something to folk moving here or going to a hospital is not a big greed spot but I love having the properties. Wish I had an investor to get some of it off my back since I am small. Selling would have to make it worth my while to jump out. So hit me up. Got three houses and one is listed and can be turn key and kept! Stay busy for me.

We charge cleaning fees exactly what we pay our cleaners. Sometimes with pricelab our cleaning fee is more than what guests pay per night 🙄

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I hope you get to a point you can lower what you pay cleaners

@sujachristodoss518

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated good advice but little nervous to do that since we live 4 hours away. We rely on them.

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

This is just honestly where a business / more established host will beat you on operations. Not to be a downer but, you’ll need to put yourself in a position to succeed. More doors, established in house local operations, someone to hire and train housekeepers, etc.

@sujachristodoss518

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated thank you so much for your valuable advice 🙏

@shellyfang4563

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated if we charge guests less than what we pay our cleaners. Does that mean you build the difference into the nightly rate?

Your transformation from 5 years ago is incredible...

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Thank YOU

Hi! Is there a way to discount or remove your cleaning fee for set days on your calendar?

Hi Sean, I have been following your videos here on youtube and I am grateful for the value you share. I have my LLC registered and have some funds enough to start 2 1-bedroom Airbnb's but any leasing office I walk into, contact or email just outright says NO. What do you advise I do? I know you have a mentorship program but in your videos you said that's for peeps who have already started making some money on Airbnb. Help?!?

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Ask for 10 1-bedrooms and see what they say. I have a sales training that’s much less expensive than my mentorship

@salidukas

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated Link please sir.

Thank you for the great video. Can someone help me understand at 13:47, how did he get 11% cleaning fee. I thought he said 30% is when people bounce. 30% - 14% (Airbnb fee for guest) should be 16%. Am I missing anything? Thanks

You may have answered this in another video, and if so lets see it! AirBnB seems to be pushing to have a fee free listing. I hear you on the cleaning fees and love the advice. Now I want to know about picking up the fees that airbnb charges and pay it for the guest. It is sold that you will go to the top of the list with seo. Ive seen a video of them saying so. Is this true and whats your suggestions?

Hey Sean I have a question about cleaning cost. My condo is roughly $110 per night but my cleaning company charges me $125 per cleaning which I pass on to the guest. I can’t clean it my self because I’m not local to the area. How do I bring the cleaning cost down so I dont get the bounce effect without raising the cost per night to high that Airbnb won’t list me as much?? How high is to high?

Sean I love you but in my area of South Florida 150-200$ cleaning fee for a 3/2 with pool house ( that’s what I got ) is what it takes . I really don’t see how can I pay someone less🤷‍♀️ Plus I finally found a cleaning company that’s professional and does not leave hair on my white bedding sheets and only charges 150$! Sooo grateful and happy that I would gladly pay them even more just to have a peace of mind and be able to have a life!

@abnpthfdr2934

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain @Romi, I'm here in Central Florida I own a 4/3 townhouse and my cleaning fee is $150. Looking around with other people, and that's exactly the going rate. Good luck with your property.

@asdzxc360

Жыл бұрын

Look at paying hourly instead of by project you'll be surprised how much you save

@romi929

Жыл бұрын

@@asdzxc360 I am not aware of any outstanding cleaners in South Florida who I can pay hourly. I finally got an outstanding team and I finally can sleep at night. I honestly don’t see why would I try to save money on something that’s literally 75% of my business depending on it . If you don’t have a great cleaning team you have no business.

@pameveridge9266

Жыл бұрын

I have to pay $120.00 for a one bedroom and $130.00 for a two bedroom. That’s including doing the laundry. It’s hard to find good housekeepers that show up on time and clean to my standards.

Sean what about lodging taxes as it relates to the 30% bounce rate? Where we operate they are between 11 1/2 and 13 1/2%.

@annavergara401

Жыл бұрын

I am in Merida Mx. Its high

@tammyrussell-rice5508

Жыл бұрын

Kauai is 17.962%!

@helenfranklin1573

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing! if its a 30% rule. I basically can not charge for cleaning based on Occupancy tax and airbnb fee:(

@funmiester

Жыл бұрын

Great question that I, and apparently others, also are wondering about. For my 2 properties, ABNB charges 14% & there's 14% tax , that's 28% WITHOUT my cleaning fee

I have had, lately, incoming inquiries in my inbox that go like: "We want to stay from (date) to (date), but our budget is (insert some undoable amount for the stay), can you do it for that" or something to that effect. This last instance I tried to explain that they're booking during a major holiday (Thanksgiving) and that the pricing reflects that. Before I answered that message I looked at my comps, they either: were all booked through those dates, or the one that had the dates available had higher prices. They never booked nor reply. Did I do something wrong? How would you deal with those requests? I would appreciate to hear your take on this. Thanks.

@CFinch360

Жыл бұрын

Those emails are a scam. Reply something polite yet firm like "my property is competitively priced for the value received. There are other properties in this area which may suit your budget most closely. Wishing you all the best in finding your perfect place"

hey, looking forward to the content on unfair reviews when can see you again? :)

Are occupancy taxes figured in to your "Airbnb Fees" when making your calculation?

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I don’t consider taxes.

how do you manage laundry services as part of the cleaning fee?

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

We do mostly on site laundry and have a really efficient workflow for this.

@ErickPardo

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomated I wish I had that ability, but it's not possible. I currently pay the turnover service for cleaning and laundry.

I never pegged you as a Rose fella. Cab, yes. Rose, no. Regardless, Great Video!

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Tempranillo, Malbec, a New Zealand Blanc (in that order)

Sean where can we work with you or someone on your team for a more affordable price??

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

The best way is to get into my mentorship program. I do small group coaching for. about $11 per hour.

Lol I appreciate the info, but also laugh at the attempts at flexing 40k geodes etc. Very nouveau riche.

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I would flex the MTG card collection if I thought I could get away with it

Good info. I stopped watching robuilt since it's not informative anymore. if you read this comment, can you make a video about competing with hotels? you should encourage other host to lower their outrageous fees or cleaning chores they ask guests to do. We should develop a new culture as host to win against negative connotation Airbnb host and earn more from hotels. Thanks

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I JUST shot a video on this.

@homehost6249

Жыл бұрын

@@AirbnbAutomatedThanks Sean! Looking forward to your new contents. Cheers

Good day how can I attract guest for my Airbnb because booking is very sliw

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

Pricing strategy. Watch my free pricing strategy course

@kimberiysmarketstrategy

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Ouch

🎉

Sean, you said “some of your students” how can I become a student? You have employees as well, I would like to work with you.

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

I have a linktree Linktr.ee/rakidzich That has a link within it that you can schedule a call with my team to Discuss my mentorship

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

For employment DM on IG at @risk_and_reward

I’m about to try and get a loan and rent out an apartment hopefully I do good with this cause I’m tired of these 9-5 j.o.b.s, but I also got a whole bunch of questions and lacking on a lot of info

Omg. Have you BEEN to the Skywalk?

He's literally teaching scumbags how to circumvent the proper procedure of reviewing guests and hosts. We've had hosts do this and post negative reviews on our stay after a bad review for legitimate problems with the stay and property.

$40k crystal 😂

@AirbnbAutomated

Жыл бұрын

invest in amethyst. Real Talk

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@josieann5031

2 ай бұрын

Thank so much for saving my time.

@jakewaldman6243

2 ай бұрын

@@josieann5031 you’re welcome Josie!

It's pronounced "Rob built". His name is Rob

@theedge5193

Жыл бұрын

I think he might’ve done that intentionally lol

You retired at 35?

Top one error of influencers: long, drawn out "me me me me me me me" BS at the beginning of a video. Seriously. It took you 3 1/2 minutes to get to the first item. Please, enough with the salesmanship and get on with it. Then you IMMEDIATELY go into another war story? Out.

@AirbnbAutomated

11 ай бұрын

If you hate my content. Please stop watching