We previously collaborated with a cohost who managed over 40...
We previously collaborated with a cohost who managed over 40 properties and employed four virtual assistants whom he personal...
Hello everyone,
A lot of members here on the Community Center host from lovely homes. We have read some great comments about them in the past such as one from @Laura2592's, who turned an old stone schoolhouse into a lovely cottage and @Maureen-and-Jackie-0 who hosts from a townhouse!
We thought it would be great to get to know what kind of property you are hosting from!
For this week, we have added four options of property types. Please choose an option that fits your listing type the best, however, do not worry if your property type is not mentioned in the poll as we have more polls coming soon!
It would be great if you could write a comment below in the thread telling us more about your choice as it would be very interesting to read.
Having said all the above, perhaps you might even have a specific property type that you've dreamt of having! Feel free to share this below 🙂.
Here is where I started out......
We bought this property in June 2009. It was derelict, hadn't been lived in for 15 years.
When Ade was diagnosed with MS in 1994 I let my share of our mechanical services company go and we spent our retirement.....we traveled....2 decades of it! Come 2009, we were almost broke!
This property came on the market for a bargain price....it was essentially block only value!
Thinking I still had a few years of work left in me ....and nothing better to do, I got stuck into making something of this old lady again!
About the time I got the main house where I wanted it, we stayed in an Airbnb listing in Sydney arranged by my daughter. I got to thinking, we had this run down garage in the rear yard......
Why not turn it around and make some money out of it.
The roof had fallen in on one side of it......
It was seriously disgusting, I wouldn't keep an animal in there much less a guest! We had left it to the possums, rats and cockroaches!
But I did have my vision so I set to work on it in 2015 and I turned it around.......
We put a lot of work into that grass wasteland that was the rear garden.....
I listed it and before we knew what was happening, it took off and I have been run off my feet ever since.
I don't know what makes people search for a property like this. As I have said previously it's just an old building in the back blocks of nowhere but, month after month they keep on coming, and I keep on enjoying having them. I keep on improving it all the time. Last year I repaved the pathways in the garden with old second hand Federation red bricks to get rid of the old cracked concrete.
Each day I do something to improve it just that bit more.....it's eco friendly, we run almost entirely on solar power now having the capacity to generate up to 52 Kws of electricity per day during the summer. Our property has almost quadrupled in value over the past decade and I have my Airbnb vision to thank for that. I am sure the property would be nowhere near where it is today had it not been for my involvement with Airbnb!
Quincy, it has been a nice part of my life!
Cheers.........Rob
