How to furnish your Airbnb? Are you wondering what furniture you should be
buying or even what stores you should be in? What should you get and what should
you not get? How much did you spend? Oh, my gosh! So many questions and I have the
answer. And I'm going to share it with you. Let's go.
The Airbnb as a business and as a person that hosts on Airbnb can be very
profitable. In fact, it was one of the life-changing
things for me when I went from having a bunch of rental properties to realizing
that I did not have to own or even have as many properties as I used to in order
to make the same amount of money. Airbnb is a website where host people like me
that have properties that we want to put out there to have people stay in can
book them on the site for free. Airbnb allows us to list the properties
up there for free. They don't charge us anything and millions and millions of
people are on Airbnb looking for properties that they can stay in either
for travel for business for vacation. In fact, some people actually use Airbnb's
and stay at them for many months when they are relocating to a new city for
example. So, there is tons of opportunity and the great thing about it is Airbnb
and sites like Airbnb, they're not the only game in town. Home away, VRBO, things
like that. There's tons of websites where you can just put your property up there
and people can book them and they don't necessarily charge you money. But you
charge per night for those properties. So, now that you understand that part, let me
tell you how you can get in on this. So, we're talking about furnishing the
Airbnb, we find properties that are vacant. Either our apartment complexes
that have a really high vacancy rate and they're willing to allow us to do our
business model there. Or we find private sellers that'll give us permission to do
it and we guarantee them the rent. Okay? So, I've made a whole video about
that. I'm not going to get into how you acquire the properties. Please check that
video out if you do not know how to do that. I made it for free for you. So now
once we have the properties, we got to furnish them. And we need to furnish them
quickly on a budget with quality things, okay? That's kind of important. So, the
first things that you want to do when we're talking about furnishing them is
you don't have to have a lot of furniture. You're looking around at an
actual Airbnb, okay? This is literally in one of our Airbnb's and you can see
there's not a ton of furniture in the living room. You don't have to just have
furniture everywhere and paintings everywhere. You need a nice couch that's
sturdy. And some cases, you may want a sofa bed so that
you can sleep more people. You want to go to stores but possibly you can get that
on credit, okay? There's tons of furniture places
that will allow you to not make any payments for six months or a year. And
you can furnish the place and start making money before you ever have to
actually start making payments on the furniture. The second thing that you're
going to need. In every master bedroom, again, you're competing with hotels. You're not
competing against other people's Airbnb's. We're basically in the Airbnb business
and how we make so much money is we compete with hotels and we just take a
couple of their nights. Well... And most hotels, what do they have as the bed? If
you're in a bedroom, it doesn't have a small twin bed or 3 twin beds or
anything like that. It has a master with a king bed in it. So, the importance of
why I'm saying this is it doesn't have to be very expensive, you don't have to
get those lavish beds. You probably don't even want to do that. It's super
important that when you're furnishing your Airbnb that you get a good quality
mattress with a firm or medium firm type of mattress. Do not buy pillowtop
mattresses, do not buy tempur-pedic and all those expensive mattresses. You just
want a quality mattress that's going to last and you want to make sure you get a
mattress cover for that mattress. Those are going to be the most important things
to furnish the place. Of course you're going to have to get towels, knives, forks,
and some other things that I'll get to in just a second. But the furniture is
really simple. Living room furniture, bedroom furniture and televisions. That's
the things that you'll spend the most money on. And the rest of the stuff, I'll
tell you how we can get on a budget. So, now that we have the major things kind
of pointed out.Tthe next area that you want to make sure that you have and it
is important is of course appliances. You want your property have a washer and
dryer, a refrigerator, a stove and oven. You know, things like that. And that's one
of the reasons why we like properties that a seller or a private landlord or
apartment complex already has for us. And then you will just spend minimal amounts
of money on smaller appliances like a toaster, a coffee maker, a blender. And
again, some of these are not required. You really want to look at the market that
you're in. But you just want to think, "Okay, what does a hotel
and what might a family need if they were cooking?" Those are kind of the
important things. What you stopped the kitchen with is going to be important
for those 5 star ratings. People want to save money by doing an Airbnb. So, let
me give you a big secret. People prefer the short-term rentals that people own
more than hotels. And the reason for that is because they can save money. Usually,
you can get a hotel room for about $100 a night, $120 a night. You can get
the whole house or the whole apartment for that same thing while Airbnb. And the
great thing about it is you have a fully stocked kitchen. So, now you don't have to
eat out at restaurants all the time. You can buy groceries and put them in the
refrigerator and it's a full size refrigerator. Not like those little
motel suites and things like that. It's comfortable. People can spread out
so they can save money. So, make sure that they have the things that they need to
cook, okay? Because that's how they're saving money. And that's what you want to
make sure that you put in your property so that they can do that. A great thing
that I want to tell you that you want to make sure that you're doing, if you have
multiple rooms, you want to maximize the number of people that the property
sleeps. So, this is beds, guys. This is bedding that I'm talking
about. I'm saying if you have a one-bedroom apartment, you're going to have
to put that king bed in there. Please do not put three 2 beds or bunk beds or
anything crazy like that. But if you have 2 bedrooms for example, you'll put a
king bed in one of those bedrooms. And then the other bedrooms you could put
twin beds or king queen beds or something like that to maximize the
number of people that the property sleeps. Another trick that I was telling
you was getting a sofa couch. So, instead of just having a regular sofa, spend that
extra $100 to make sure that you have a sleeper sofa with a bed so that you can
sleep 2 or 3 more people and then you can add to the property, rollaway
beds and air mattresses things like that that the people can pull out and again
sleep more people so that you can increase your price. So, I have created an
entire course teaching you everything that you need to know on how to have an
Airbnb business without owning any properties and
six figures in a short amount of time. I have tons of students that have already
taken it and they are loving the information. And it comes with some all
of my contracts, all of my scripts, all of the templates. Things that you need not
only to acquire the property but everything to get the properties and
then furnish them on a budget and then also put your listings together so that
you have an entire Airbnb business. Go to bnbriches.com to find out, get
more information. Go ahead and purchase that. And you can get that whole course
at a very affordable price. This is Noelle, to your success.