I am pretty happy about this so I've decided to share it here where everyone who hosts can appreciate it. I have 403 reviews but only 400 show up in my visible count. I did have at least one that wasn't a 5 star so my rating is 4.99 for what seems like forever! Someday maybe I'll overcome that .01 and reach 5? I have been a superhost since the first qualifying period after we started in 2017.
I'm amazed at how quickly this whole thing has taken off. We were charging $39 a night when we started... per airbnbs original recommendation! We're now at $160 during the slow winter season and $225 on weekend nights during the busy summer season.
I have numerous repeat guests. One family has been here 10 times!
The first year 2017 we made $19k. In 2018 we made $25K. In 2019 we made $35K. Because I've added an airbnb "experience" recently (which has been pretty successful so far), I'm shooting for $50k this year! I am making more money renting a single 134 sq ft tinyhouse (working MAYBE an hour a day cleaning/laundry) than I made when I worked 40 hours a week @$16.10/hour as a forklift operator in a grocery warehouse! There are things we all can complain about regarding airbnb but we have to agree that it has provided us a unique opportunity to make money very unconventionally and quite easily.
I really don't know. He was our 3rd guests way back in march of 2017. He paid $39 for the night! That's the price airbnb recommended I charge, so I did. What did I know?! LOL! He came here for the night because his local home was being painted and he could not be there. Back then we had no big deck, no concrete walkways, no privacy fence and the tinyhouse had a waterless toilet... which most people hated. Also, the arcade only had about 5 games in it. We have 40 now! We weren't perfect back then but have come a long way in 3 short years.
