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Airbnb pro tips bedroom and bathroom today I'm going to teach you how to make
your Airbnb pretty as you might know I'm an Airbnb host with 20 properties that I
built on my own and self-managed without a single dollar from investors and I
started with only three thousand dollars just a few years ago in fact I've
doubled up for my 10 to 20 properties in the last year I picked up number 19 and
20 yesterday and so this video is kind of a way to give back and celebrate that
20th property so I'm gonna do a couple videos before I even publish this
listing so let's get right to it I'm going to show you the three main folds
that I use for my towels and my linens to make sure that they're
picture-perfect for your profile alright so let's get started the easy one is the
body towel roll second will be the washcloth pillar it's kind of fun they
stand there pretty and then third is the Swan fold I actually learned how to do
the Swan fold on a vacation in Jamaica at a Hilton I disassembled it and learn
how to do it because of course I wanted to steal it for my own so let's start
for what the easy one now when you do a body towel roll it is very simple but
there's this one technique to make sure it comes out crisp every time first
things first is you want to do a half fold right one end over the inner corner
to corner make it half length next fold the long end in one-third and then do it
again from the other side one-third so you've got the perfect width now when
you roll it here's what you need to do bring it in about six inches and I want
you to wind it like twist it in so that way the rolls being created by you
pulling the towel through almost like you're winding both ends of a watch by
doing this you're gonna keep the end from flaring if you rolled it by pushing
it you're gonna actually compress the towel and this end here would actually
come out and start to flare from the compression so when you pull it through
like that you get a very crisp fold very neat and organized so next the
washcloths piller so you can do this with bigger non-square linens as well
but the key is if you have one that's longer just fold it to be square because
you want to have a square shape here so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take
one end we're gonna fold it a little bit more than half way through right one
corner in now we're gonna take another corner the
same corner that we're going to roll we're gonna fold this exactly halfway
through then we're gonna roll from that same side all the way through so what we
have now and you want to make sure you keep it you know keep it away so that
way you've got this nice flat bottom so you have that flat bottom and you've got
this kind of look wild in to create the shape that we're looking for you're just
going to take your finger and where you see this excess edge you're gonna stick
your finger in between the edge and the pillar and you're just gonna start to
roll it out just like that so by rolling it through and pushing
that edge down it's gonna fold over itself and it's gonna create the shape
that you're looking for and that's how you create that pillar shape now if you
want it taller because you want to make sure that they're the same size you can
simply just kind of sheath it out and give it a give it kind of a pull and
make it a little bit longer so that way they're all uniform looking and it
actually looks a little it looks a lot better at just a certain length so every
linen is different so find the perfect length for it and just pull it out so
that way it has this most cosmetic shape and then they'll stamp if you find that
they're not standing for any reason just check the bottom and kind of give it a
give it a pat and make sure that it's actually nice and flat so that way it'll
stand for you well up next The Swan fold this one's fun and it's actually a lot
easier than you think it would be so the key to this one is you take your towel
with full length right you're gonna find the center point here so with the center
point here you're gonna take one end you're gonna fold it about there so it's
going to be where this lines a little bit further inside than this opposite
corner here and then you're gonna do the same thing with the other side
so that's about where you want to fold it first now with your finger right here
to keep this really tight you're gonna roll the outside so the inside is tight
and the outside is kind of flared out so that way this is obviously got way more
material you know do the same thing with the other side to get it nice and tight
on the on what will be the the nose edge and then flare it out of course where
you imagine the tail feather so now you have the beginnings of yours
one which is the tail and the nose now I like to tuck these in and create a
little bit of a shape here help kind of create some structure by tucking in
these like extra little bits what that'll do is that'll help the Swan
per-say have more of a mega backend so now you flip it over and you've got this
kind of cone shape so there's not much left to do use at the halfway point here
you fold it back right to create the neck and then you're going to do the
same thing with what you would call the nose right here now the only thing about
a shorter tail see it doesn't want to it doesn't want to create the nose a longer
towel it's heavy enough that'll do it so it takes a little practice with this one
but over time you can train yourself to do these shorter titles and then once
you're done they'll look something like this and it
looks really fun with bigger towels and at the Hilton in Jamaica like I said
they actually set it on the center of the bed which was actually kind of cool
along with some other decorations I think they did like a chocolate you know
that kind of whole thing so I use this for my makeup towels and I actually
recommend putting a label on this and let people know this is the make of
towel this is the one that you can stain that's important because otherwise these
beautiful white ones people need to wipe their makeup off and if you only have
white towels they will stain and then you'll get complaints months later from
Airbnb guests going the towels are stained and dirty and ragged that's only
because you didn't have a designated makeup towel so get smart also bath mats
I don't buy the ones with little plastic bottoms that actually stay on the
bathroom floor gets actually really nasty because people rarely wash those
these ones are the ones that you just kind of throw in the laundry these are
just the same ones you could actually see in a hotel right so what I'll do is
I'll pick up all the linens and I'll throw this in with the laundry
I'll keep three or four sets of everything in my European piece in a
future video we are going to talk about Airbnb inventory like you're gonna make
an inventory list if you're gonna set up an air bebe from scratch and you just
want to have it done inside of 48 hours which for all my urban these they're
always listed in 48 hours because otherwise you're just wasting time with
a non listed property so we're going to go over
inventory later but I keep three copies of towels washcloths makeup tiles bath
mats etc so let's go to that the bedroom next additionally I'm going to do a
video on Airbnb SEO how to get high on search rankings a clean bed is one way
to do this and I'll explain that more later but additionally King pets they're
easier to photograph with four pillows that is super important because people
stays I think the bathrooms and the bedroom or the bed is specifically is
probably one of the most important things they need to have a comfortable
night's sleep so four pillows I keep to gel pillows and then two down feather
ones so that way whoever you know whatever their style is they'll always
have a pillow that they like no the reason why I'm showing you this is
because like I said stains if you're like me as an Airbnb host you've
probably gone through your fair share of comforters people will stain the
comforters you can't get them out and you have to throw the comforter rain buy
a new one if you're like me I have your solution so this is not just the
comforter but it is covered with something called add event now some
people call it a duvet so if you guys are good at this pardon me
so this is something that simply slips over comforter it's extremely
comfortable it's really soft and if you've ever been to a four or five-star
hotel you're gonna notice that they do this so what you do is you just unzip
the duvet or do that pull the comforter from outside and you throw this in the
wash that actually makes it faster to wash your linens too so in my world
where we have 10 properties or 12 properties in Houston the cleaners have
a lot of laundry to do so going like cutting down on the bulk
really helps speed up the cleaning process so by just washing the outer
outer sheet you don't have to wash the whole comforter every time and that
saves you a bunch of time and if the duvet or do the vets get stained you
just toss it and you use a new one so like I said three of everything you
could have three of these outer things but only need one comfort so we've cut
down there too so in the future we are going to talk like I said about SEO what
what do you need to do your profile to maximize your search rankings because of
course occupancy percentage for short for rental is
everything and creating picture-perfect scenes is important too so we're going
to talk about outside