@Matteo1140
Congrats on your new home and beginning your new adventure hosting with your apartment!
Many hosts will put a sofa bed in the den for multifunctional use, and include a desk too. You will want to have as much amenities that make sense (without cluttering a space or costing too much for your budget). Do market research by searching the platform as a guest in your city with 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom to see what is being offered, their price points, reviews, amenities, how your space is unique etc.
Please refer to the FAQ section as it spells out many things on what you need to address with hosting including making sure you can do a STR with your complex, getting STR insurance coverage, creating a house manual (very important), writing your listing/description, how to set expectations, instant book or not, dynamic pricing or not, a trying minimum nights (recommended; the amt varies depending on your cleaning crew, who is your target market, it could be 2-3 nights, 7 nights, 28 nights) and more. The number of nights makes sense if you have business travelers, are near a hospital (for people who visit for medical appointments/surgeries, or are traveling nurses), are near a college (visiting professors, parents of students, prospective students visiting, alumni coming in for a football game, etc), are near national parks or big attractions.
Some larger management companies absorb the entire host and guest fee for Airbnb while most hosts pay the 3% from each booking and the guest pays 12% of each booking.
Make sure to know what the long term rules are in your city as to when a guest is considered a tenant as then they have a whole new set of rules that you must abide by including tenant’s rights (many hosts do not allow stays beyond 28 days because that is usually the long term threshold for most cities).
Hapoy hosting!
