All right everyone this is Richard here
coming to you live from Crested Butte
Colorado which is where my home is. You
can see that we've got tons of snow it's
absolutely beautiful there's my vintage
toyota land cruiser and one of the
reasons that I'm here is to do some work
on the property also to do some filming
and also to make sure that the quality
control is up that's one of the key
things that you need to do if you're
going to be an Airbnb host and get five
star ratings you want to check it on
your property in your property team the
cleaning people and so on to make sure
that everything's done to your
satisfaction. So what we're going to do
right now is just literally walk in I've
been inside I've unpacked stuff but I
haven't touched anything and I just want
to take a look at how my cleaning team
is doing and sort of get the first hand
experience like a guest might get and
we're going to share that with you so
we're going to see some good things and
bad things and let's just go inside and
see what's going on. Alright so here we
are in Crested Butte and let's go in
first thing I notice here all the lights
are off so it's a little bit dark I
don't think that's that great they put
the heat up which is nice so it's pretty
good we're going to walk into the master
bedroom here i'm going to turn some of
these lights on you can see that it's
pretty dark but they did do some nice
touches like at this tub here you can
see that they've got the towel folded
i'm going to go ahead and open some of
these windows so we can see just how
much nicer it is as a guest if you were
to walk in and there was some light in
here with the view I mean part of the
reason that we bought this house and
that people rent this house is for that
right so you want to take a look at that.
Let's take a look at the master bathroom
again you can see that the towels are
clean and folded properly we talked in
one of the tips about personalizing the
towels you can see that they've done
that they've got the all the different
soap and everything brand new and clean
folded the toilet paper and a nice
little flower so looks like they're
doing pretty good work for me I'm pretty
pleased I'm going to talk to them about
having these lights open I bet they're
doing it for energy which is fabulous
and also for not bleaching any of the
rugs and stuff and I get it but if we
know that a guest is checking in then we
can come by here and open it up. I'm
going to take you upstairs now to the
kitchen area and let's see what we find
up here same sort of deal I can see that
all of the shades are closed but
everything looks pretty neat again you
can see they've got this little flower
thing that they're doing which is nice
it shows that somebody's paying
attention and personalizing it let's go
ahead and open some of these shades
because I think you'll all agree that
the views are killer and the light is
awesome and it makes just a much better
first impression if you were to come
into this vacation home with your family
and your friends and you were to see
this also we've had a ton of snow here
and you can see that the snow shoveling
team is doing good work they've actually
taken care of the deck so people can
come out here and enjoy that's the town
of Crested Butte then it beautiful out
here. We're supposed to be getting a
storm tonight
and more snow and I couldn't be
more thrilled so let's go back inside
and see how the kitchen looks again
everything looks pretty nice and clean
more lights on would be nice and then
also these shades open would he fantastic
here you can see that the snow team
hasn't really done a very good job on
this back deck now granted in all the
years I've been here I've never actually
used it and I can see that this screen
door has come off so I'm going to get
have to get that put back on but you can
see again great views from the back so
i'm not sure why we would hide those and
they have although those widows closed so
let's go ahead and just open all these
up and now what I'm going to do is I'm
going to speak with my cleaning team and
let them know you know what they've done
well and where there's room for
improvement so that the next guest
coming in is gonna have a better
experience and sort of more in keeping
with what I think should be appropriate
but you can see everything looks nice
and clean I actually unpacked a little
bit of my grocery so that's not them the
freezer is clean and spotless the fridge
was empty I put some of my stuff and the
only thing they had in there was butter
which is fine but it's kind of gross if
there's other people's food and then the
pantry looks really nice and clean and
neat this is labeled starbucks coffee
January 2017 which is really thoughtful
so people know what it is and also that
it's not too old but overall I would say
the place looks really good and clean
I'm really happy a little bit of room
for improvement but not too much let's
go down into another bedroom just to
take a look at that in another bathroom
but overall I'm pretty pleased the heat
is up and the place is spotless so I'm
pretty happy I'm going to get some of
these repairs taken care of and
talk to them a little bit about what I
expect and what a better guest
experience is. This room is again really
dark because they have all the shades
down that let's go ahead and open this
and now again you can see sort of the
reason that we bought this home out here
in the wilderness and the natural light
and you can see here the bed is made
it's nice and neat let's go into this
bathroom and do a spot check here I'm
not going to walk you through all of
them because I think we get the idea but
again really nice and neat I love the
way they've taken care of all the little
details and the towels and there's soap
in there and again we've got the branded
vanity towels if you will and so if you
are going to be doing this as a
full-time job or a side gig you need to
make sure that the quality control is
there you need to take the time to visit
your locations and meet your people meet
your team and truth be told coming to
Crested Butte which I consider God's
country and spending a little bit of
time in the mountains isn't the worst
thing in the world but somebody's got to
do it anyway I hope you found this
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Happy New Year!