FAQs
What is the advantage of listing my home as a short term rental?
Short term rentals often net higher profit margins than long term lease rentals:
With the popularity and demand of Airbnb at an all time high, a short term rental allows you to maximize your return on investment. Our owners enjoy significantly higher revenues and profit margins over long-term rentals, between 2 and 4 times the expected rental income.
Less wear and tear on the property and better maintenance: Due to frequent guest turnover your property is inspected and thoroughly cleaned by our staff several times a month. We catch any issues early and address them immediately before they cause damage to your property. Also, people visiting South Florida are usually here for tourism, business or visiting family. Most of them are eager to explore and spend most of their time out and about.
Personal blackout dates allows owners a much more flexible and care free way to rent: Owners have complete control of when they want to use their property. This is ideal for a property that you like to occasionally visit or is your seasonal home. It's perfect if you’d like to have your friends and family come and stay. Blackout periods for personal use are easy to mark off the calendar and we can alter the listing around your preferences and schedule.
Ideal guests: We undertake a careful screening process for all guests to ensure that they are considerate and will take good care of your property. Airbnb fosters a sense of community and respect, and many Airbnb renters are property owners themselves.
With the popularity and demand of Airbnb at an all time high, a short term rental allows you to maximize your return on investment. Our owners enjoy significantly higher revenues and profit margins over long-term rentals, between 2 and 4 times the expected rental income.
Less wear and tear on the property and better maintenance: Due to frequent guest turnover your property is inspected and thoroughly cleaned by our staff several times a month. We catch any issues early and address them immediately before they cause damage to your property. Also, people visiting South Florida are usually here for tourism, business or visiting family. Most of them are eager to explore and spend most of their time out and about.
Personal blackout dates allows owners a much more flexible and care free way to rent: Owners have complete control of when they want to use their property. This is ideal for a property that you like to occasionally visit or is your seasonal home. It's perfect if you’d like to have your friends and family come and stay. Blackout periods for personal use are easy to mark off the calendar and we can alter the listing around your preferences and schedule.
Ideal guests: We undertake a careful screening process for all guests to ensure that they are considerate and will take good care of your property. Airbnb fosters a sense of community and respect, and many Airbnb renters are property owners themselves.
How much can i expect to earn?
In short, it depends. We will be able to give you a quote once we have some information about your home including address, amenities, and number of bedrooms. Typically, it will be comparable to or more than the long term rental value of your home, with less wear and tear, and more flexibility to use the home than comes with having a long term tenant.
How do I protect my personal belongings/ valuables?
Security matters, and we know it matters, so we’ve developed a four layer strategy for creating the same degree of trust between you and your guest as you’d have with a close friend or member of your family.
Here’s how the layers stack up:
First, have knowledge. We know who your guest is. We’ve seen their passport or driving license. We even have their credit or debit card details.
Secondly, set limits. We use tamper-evident seals. It’s pretty clever stuff, which was originally designed for securing aeroplanes. You put a little piece of magic tape across the seal of any cupboard or door which is private or personal, to show areas of your place which are out of bounds. Of course, a guest could always choose to break a seal. But (a) we’d know, because we check if a seal has been broken at the end of a booking, and (b) they’d know we’d know. And because our guests have made a promise to us that they won’t ever break tamper tape, they’ll be in breach of our terms.
Thirdly, be insured. We offer a unique insurance service that supplements any existing contents insurance you have and protects your things in case anything should go wrong.
Fourthly and finally, be sensible. If you have very valuable, portable items, consider taking them with you when you travel, or leaving them with a trusted friend or neighbour.
It’s worth adding: if you have irreplaceable, fragile, non-portable items which you think that someone might steal (even though we know who they are) or break (even though they’ve put down a card pre-authorisation and we have their credit card details), then onefinestay may not be for you.
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Here’s how the layers stack up:
First, have knowledge. We know who your guest is. We’ve seen their passport or driving license. We even have their credit or debit card details.
Secondly, set limits. We use tamper-evident seals. It’s pretty clever stuff, which was originally designed for securing aeroplanes. You put a little piece of magic tape across the seal of any cupboard or door which is private or personal, to show areas of your place which are out of bounds. Of course, a guest could always choose to break a seal. But (a) we’d know, because we check if a seal has been broken at the end of a booking, and (b) they’d know we’d know. And because our guests have made a promise to us that they won’t ever break tamper tape, they’ll be in breach of our terms.
Thirdly, be insured. We offer a unique insurance service that supplements any existing contents insurance you have and protects your things in case anything should go wrong.
Fourthly and finally, be sensible. If you have very valuable, portable items, consider taking them with you when you travel, or leaving them with a trusted friend or neighbour.
It’s worth adding: if you have irreplaceable, fragile, non-portable items which you think that someone might steal (even though we know who they are) or break (even though they’ve put down a card pre-authorisation and we have their credit card details), then onefinestay may not be for you.
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What happens if something goes wrong?
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