AIAirbnb InvestingShort-Term Rental Advisory

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Four engagements. Each one stands on its own.

Most clients start with one and add others later. Nothing here is bundled, nothing is conditional on taking something else, and every fee is quoted before work begins.

  1. Brokerage and acquisition

    The most expensive mistakes are made before anyone owns anything. The wrong market, a property that can't legally be rented short-term, or a price that only works if occupancy never dips.

    • Market and submarket selection based on demand drivers, existing supply, and how settled the regulatory position is — not on where prices went up last year.
    • The short-term rental ordinance, occupancy caps, parking minimums, permit path and renewal risk, read and summarised in writing before an offer goes out.
    • Real comparable rate and occupancy data for the specific submarket, not a platform-wide average.
    • Underwriting that still works if the property has to fall back to a long-term rental.
    • Financing paths, including which lenders will actually write a loan for a short-term rental, and which will do it with more than two people on title.

  2. Design and buildout

    The difference between a well-finished house and a property people search for by name. This is where the pricing power is created or lost.

    • Concept selection matched to the market and to who already travels there — not to what looks good on a mood board.
    • Buildout budget and scope, with an honest split between what is expensive and what merely looks expensive.
    • Trades, procurement, and installation management.
    • Professional photography and listing copy. This line is not optional and it is the highest-return spend in the project.
    • Reversibility — concentrating the concept in finishes and furniture rather than structure, so the house still resells to an ordinary buyer.

  3. Property management

    Where the spreadsheet meets reality. A property that photographs well and prices badly earns less than an ordinary house priced properly.

    • Listing setup, channel management, and dynamic pricing.
    • Turns, cleaning, linens, restocking, and vendor management.
    • Preventive maintenance and a capital reserve schedule, so the roof is a plan rather than a surprise.
    • Monthly statements written to be read, with the underlying booking data available to the owner at any time — not a summary.
    • An annual term that renews annually, terminable on notice without penalty, and a fee benchmarked against at least two outside bids.

  4. Repositioning an existing property

    For owners who already have a short-term rental that is open, booking, and returning less than it should. Selling is rarely the right answer and usually the most expensive one.

    • A diagnostic first: pricing strategy, photography, listing position, review profile, and where the property actually sits against its real competitive set.
    • Most underperformance traces to one of three things — the price is wrong, the photographs are wrong, or the house has nothing to distinguish it. The first two are cheap to fix.
    • Where the third is the problem, a staged concept buildout that can be phased over two or three off-seasons rather than paid for at once.
    • An honest answer when the property is in the wrong market or the wrong building, and the right advice is to sell. That answer is given when it applies.

Not on the menu

Things we are asked for and decline.

Which of these do you actually need?

Often fewer than people expect. The first conversation is usually about narrowing it.

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