welcome back Airbnb family today I'm teaching you a definitive guide on how
to launch multiple properties at the same time this is going to save you time
it's going to save you money obviously increase your profits and your time to
market when you do pick up new properties and you even get to learn
from a few of my mistakes this is the way that I now after sitting at 55
properties I'm sitting on my property so learn for me let's get to it alright so
yes I am not wearing a button-up shirt as much can you notice because of course
I'm sending up some properties right now so you to see me casually so I'm going
to show you some footage right now of what it looks like when you do it all so
the problem here you'll see in this room is we have ourselves furniture setup
everything's pretty much ready to go and then we've got a lot of junk in the
apartment this is a bear because at a building like this one they forced you
to break down boxes and then put them somewhere so we have a very clear order
of operations problem there are other common problems that you're gonna make
including the mistakes that I made so I'm gonna walk you through these so
let's let's actually start step by step on how you should do this so step one
you're going to make a list of everything you are going to buy in order
to do this here's some tips take some photos of the empty property first right
that way you you can get a feel for the layout you can start looking at design
ideas yes I do all of my own design I kind of have winged it a lot and have
decided on colors that I think match really well designs that I think match
really well general layout styles that I think are attractive and then I've
learned from a lot of you hosts by looking at your profiles and learning a
lot of hotels whenever I'm in a hotel and
paying attention to how they lay things out so taking this all together and now
I kind of have my opinion on spaces so here even let me show you a couple shots
of some hotels that are really cool right here design ideas right learn from
the people who are good at this so number one make a list of everything
you're going to buy and that includes your bedsheets drapes plates pots and
pans everything now you're going to research the prices and stuff make sure
you get everything at a good deal but you're also looking at shipping times
some things are going to get on Amazon some things you can do on Walmart eBay
Wayfair online sources Facebook marketplace etc so now the difference
between Amazon and Wayfarer is Amazon has a prime option where if you ever met
you remember you get things super super fast and I use prime a lot but even
there's more different than Amazon and Facebook marketplace it's Facebook
marketplaces where you find wholesalers that will deliver things for you so
there are going to be some categories of things there's going to be some long
long wait items like even if you buy them on Amazon like assemble furniture
like I bought seven dressers on Amazon and they'll be here Friday right so
that's not two or three days because today's Tuesday but I didn't order them
today you get what I mean so we've got those that take some
multiple days you then have your two day three day items on that Amazon will send
you and then you'll have stuff that needs to be delivered by persons some of
which will need to be assembled and some of which will come ready set up right so
this is another thing you want to classify do I need to assemble these
things or these things going to be ready-made and separate those so now
you're going to start the whole project management portion of this you are going
to want to get all of your to be assembled stuff delivered first your
ready-made stuff can get put in last you just drop it in place so plan for that
you want to make sure that your long arc stuff gets bought before you two or
three days stuff second because you want everything to kind of come at the same
time too so that's how you're going to plan your shipments based on what you've
just listed that you're going to purchase speaking of if you want to know
what I've been buying I'm going to include some kit links some amazon links
below kit comm allows me to put a lot of
Amazon links together so look for a kit link actually and I'll show you
everything that I've been buying lately for these apartments now that you know
what you're buying though and now you know kind of how everything's going to
come and you've talked to a wholesaler to make sure your stuff isn't on
backorder you're gonna start getting your properties now if you're doing
leases like me you're going to want to do it like this if it's in the same
building get one lease first I recommend getting your largest unit first to give
you the most space to work with so if you're picking up a two-bedroom a
three-bedroom grab that alright so you're going to activate one lease and
you're going to get your stuff shipped in the day that your lease starts
everything is gonna come on in so what you want to do is have some hired help
maybe one or two persons who are going to help you assemble everything the cool
thing is is since you've got your big space you have more room to work with
and you're hiring these people only until they're done you can hire two
people they'll be done faster and then they're out of work right easy you can
have one person that you invite to come back to move things later and I'll tell
you when that is the case so you're taking all of your inventory right so
now let's give you a hypothetical scenario we are launching five
apartments at the same time so when you order stuff another tip is you're going
to buy everything uniform you're going to buy the same stuff you can change
your color schemes up if you want to be creative but you know if you think about
it ninety-eight percent of your shipment is going to be the same your paper
towels your forks plates it's not though the what exactly but it's the what
literally that you're bringing in so you could have plates that are different
designs cool but you're still going to order five sets of plates you can order
five sets of cups you're gonna order five carpets you're gonna buy the number
of beds the bed frames and everything so what I'm really alluding to here is buy
the same type of things for each apartment in uniformity so you have five
apartments if they're all studios you're gonna have five kitchenette sets right
you're going to have five beds that are it unless you obviously now I'm
retracting again you could have a bed that's a king size and you could have
studio with two foals or whatever but you're still going to have five
apartments fully furnished worth of stuff in this one shipment and so in one
room you're going to take all of your items and you're going to unbox them
from your Amazon boxes or wherever and you're going to move them and organize
them in one room so take a bedroom and organize you've got five of this five of
that five of that right so now you're ready for distribution then you're going
to take those boxes and you're going to flatten them out and you're going to
have an area where you pile all your flat boxes together because as you saw
with that separate video we have mountains of Amazon boxes and it's
driving us insane trying to move these around and out of these apartments so
you've got your destruction box area you've got your distribution inventory
control area this allows you to see if anything's missing
and then you'll start taking your assembled furniture the stuff that
you've got to do on your own and you're going to start assembling those things
right you're going to do this in your main living area and you're going to
work from the back of the room to the front and you're going to assemble all
of your nightstands you're going to assemble you know all of your like
tables if you have tables chairs everything you're gonna start assembling
them all and you're going to basically your first unit is a warehouse
temporarily so what you've done is you've done all the time intensive stuff
organizing the massive supplies and putting your furniture together and this
allows you now to distribute so you are then going to activate the remainder of
your leases and you are going to distribute everything that day right you
still haven't had the ready drag and drop stuff show up yet right this is
important so you're going to have your delivery guys deliver like the big heavy
couches and stuff that they need to deliver at the end of this one day the
one when you activate all of your other leases so when you activate the leases
in the morning you're going to then take everything and distribute it so you're
going to order that everything's organized you're like okay I need one
set of these you can put them all on this big cart or something whatever the
building might supply you or you're on and you're going to move that into the
bit into one apartment and you take the ready-made furniture the chairs and the
you know the nightstands and everything else and you going to move those into
the cool thing about doing it like this is yes you're moving some furniture down
a hallway but I if you've got roller dollies and stuff
it's not that big of a deal and now you're not spending what was forty to
sixty hours of labor putting all this stuff together after your leases have
started right so it's going to take you about six hours to move for apartments
in that's what a normal mover takes about 1.5 hours for a studio apartment
to move everything in and be done right now
at the end of the day you did that late delivery now the couches come in and
anything else that's too big and already assembled and that stuff comes in so now
the first day that all of your leases are activated you have perfectly
everything inside of all of your units so now you're good there as far as your
listing of the spaces goes you can start prepping to list them all if they're all
uniform you'd start prepping to list them all when you take the first lease
this is another great thing about doing it this way so now what you'll have is
you'll have let's say five apartments you have the you have near the general
outside photos and all the property photos and everything and you make all
five Airbnb profiles and put in all the stuff that's going to be the same set up
the profiles put them on snooze for now right and get everything set up share
them with your co-hosts make sure everything's locked tight now you could
take them off snooze and just make the next few days unavailable so that way
people can start seeing them um I have bookings before they're ready I actually
have a booking for one that doesn't even have photos how about that right so it's
okay if you do this but I did make it so that way nobody could come in until a
certain day so block off days before they're ready so all you have to do now
because your profiles were already pre-made your stuff was already simple
dand everything is you move the stuff in you organize it all you start taking
photos you add the photos to your Airbnb profiles and they're already up and now
you're good to go the last thing you'll need to do of course is make sure you've
got your house manual type your check-in instructions type and you accidentally
don't copy and paste the same exact house manual do the same to all the five
listings because then you're accidentally going to give people the
same apartment five times I know little detail but we've done it so we've
accidentally copied and pasted a house manual that was a perfect house manual
but inside of it there's an apartment number and we forgot to change it
and now people are confused about where they're supposed to show up so don't
make that mistake with that said I'm sure there's a whole lot more questions
you have now if this is especially if this is the first time you've pondered
launching five air bebe properties at the same time yes I'm doing that as we
speak so this is advice from the field based on my mistakes so if you have any
other questions I'm going to be doing this for the next few days and I'm doing
it again with eight apartments next week so feel free to leave some questions in
the comments thank you for watching your beam be automated and I'll see you on
the other side