hello hello youtube this is richard
founder of short-term rental secrets
.com and airbnb super host today i'm
coming to you from the apartment that i
listed first on Airbnb where this all
started
and the reason I'm coming to you is
because yesterday I tried to film a
video to create a little video profile
and introduction to welcome my guests
into my homes and there was a big sale
so if you haven't seen that watch that
video but now today I'm filming my
solution
so let's go ahead and get started
alright so here I am in front of my very
first Airbnb and what I'm going to do is
recommend that you hold your phone in
landscape mode
that'll make it look bigger and it just
take up all the screen so do that I'm
going to start by welcoming my guests in
selfie mode by turning the camera around
and then I'm going to film that way for
the rest of the time a little bit
old-school but it works so let's go
ahead and get started hello everyone
this is Richard your Airbnb super host
and I just want to take the second to
really thank you very much for coming
and visiting me and I filmed this video
so that you have a great experience and
I want to show you a few little things
that people enjoy here and I want to
make your stay as pleasant as possible
so follow me and I'm going to show you
what you need to know about Sullivan
Street now the very first thing I want
to show is where you're going to be
staying so this is the street and you do
not go into that door that's somebody
else's home you're going to go over here
by the plaque and you're going to enter
the place by going into this latch here
and then walking down these stairs the
key will be in this master lock and the
instructions will tell you how to go
ahead and get in and then you open this
handle and then come on in now the very
first thing I want to share with you for
your safety and enjoyment is take the
key out and put it inside the lock and
lock it while the home is very safe and
we've never had any problems do
recognize of course that this is
Manhattan and just because we've never
had an issue doesn't mean we won't in
the future and we want to make sure that
you're safe and comfortable so go ahead
and always lock that door while you're
here this is the master bedroom I don't
have much to share with you here it's
pretty straightforward
and then the master bath is in here turn
on all the lights and you see all the
fresh linens and the shampoo and
everything else so that's pretty
straightforward
moving right along here is the
thermostat and you want to make sure
that this is an either cooling mode or
heating mode depending on what season it
is and then here is the kitchen again
pretty straightforward the one thing I
want to point out to you is that we have
a laminated copy of our instructions for
you so that you can use it and this is
the dishwasher right here and the trash
so you can use the dishwasher and the
trash the clear bag behind it is the
recycling there's also a powder room
here so feel free to use this
and the television you want to make sure
if you're not getting the television
working that using the remote control
and pushing the source button that it's
on HDMI 3 if it's on HDMI 3 you will get
the cable television which is right
there and the remote to change the
channels is this one so go ahead and use
this remote to change the channels and
also this television is a smart
television so if you push that
multi-colored button right there that
says Smart Hub what happens is you will
see on the television this come up and
you can go ahead and put in your own
Netflix account or your Amazon video
account or whatever it is that you would
like so that's how that works I'd like
to just take a moment and show you the
outdoor space again you want to make
sure to please keep it locked you want
to turn the handle up and then the knob
in order to lock it and please don't go
past that door there that's somebody
else's space and let's please respect
their privacy here's the very nice
comfortable second bedroom and now we're
going to go downstairs to the fold-out
couches as well as the utility room and
the laundry room so down here you'll see
two fold-out couches there's one there
and there's one here and then enjoy some
ping pong please the closet off of this
is the storage closet so please respect
our privacy and don't go in there as
well as this wine closet is also used
for storage so please respect our
privacy and we'd appreciate you not
going in there and then just in this
room here is where you can find the
washer and dryer and the one thing I
want to point out here is if you look
underneath the drawers where you will
find supplies so definitely look in
there and we've never had any issues but
in case of an emergency this red switch
here is how you would turn the furnace
off the boiler and
that this concludes our tour of the
Sullivan Street Garden duplex I hope you
have a great time and really want to
thank you so much for coming to visit
so please enjoy enjoy the neighborhood
enjoy the restaurants enjoy the flat and
just you know let us know if there's
anything we can do to make your stay
even better
until then this is Richard signing off
your air B&B super host thanks so very
much have a great day alright so I hope
you found that interesting now in the
interest of full disclosure I'm actually
going to go film it again because I find
that every time I do something more than
once it only gets better and since I
want to put the best foot forward what
you actually saw is going to be similar
to what I'm going to do but I'm going to
actually have rehearsed it now once or
twice and I'm going to put my best foot
forward now here's the thing my video
turned out to be about five minutes long
I think that's about the most that I
would recommend I think everybody will
watch five minutes for their business
trip or their vacation or their family
time together but if it was thirty
minutes long I think you're going to
lose people so try and figure out all
the key things what I learned from my
first take which I'm not sharing with
you - my second take was to have like
the TV on and just facilitate it knowing
that you're filming it doesn't have to
be completely the way they're going to
walk into it go ahead and turn the
lights on make yourself comfortable
take a couple of takes and practice
being on film doesn't matter if you're a
professional or you're you know never
done it before it doesn't really matter
so I'm going to try it and see if I can
put a link to a YouTube private video
which is where I'm going to host this so
only people with the link will be able
to watch my instructions on my home and
I'm going to try and share that via the
Airbnb app and see if they block it if
they do in fact block it then what I'm
going to do is before people check in
I'm going to text them and ask them for
their private email address if it's not
provided by on Airbnb and then I'm going
to go ahead and send them a link to the
private YouTube channel and encourage
them to watch it and also another
opportunity for me to welcome them and
let them know that you know I care about
their stay and so on and so forth so I
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