@Shan4300
It's a hard question to answer, probably because the answer keeps changing.
Some days, you get the place ready, leave it a little better than you found it, and hope that someone arriving tired after a long journey will walk in and think, this feels good.
It's a small kind of satisfaction. But then again, the things that stay with us the longest usually are the small ones.
And then there are the other days. The days when Airbnb announces it's "simplifying" things by moving all service fees onto hosts.
In my experience, whenever someone says they're making things simpler, it usually means someone else is about to end up with a bigger problem. This time, that someone is me and thousands of other European hosts. We'll have to raise our prices by far more than Airbnb's widely advertised 15.5%, pay more in taxes, and become less competitive in the process.
And yet, despite all that, I still think there's something quietly rewarding about being a host. Because guests, more often than not, still manage to surprise me in the best possible way.
Airbnb almost never does.
