BNB MY SPARE ROOM
Can I Airbnb my spare bedroom?
This site is for you if you want to make money by hosting a spare room in your home on Airbnb. On Airbnb this will show up as a private room or a shared room. It could have a private bath or a shared bath. What you find here is most applicable to hosting a private room with a shared bath, because that is what we did.
Do you want to Airbnb your spare bedroom?
You Can Benefit From Our Success
What you learn here will help you avoid our mistakes and repeat our successes.
We started this site to help you share our success hosting spare bedrooms on Airbnb. We did this in our home to help make ends meet and make our mortgage payments. If you follow our example, you can make extra money for your purposes.
You can benefit from our success. A few years back my husband went on a disability pension due to multiple sclerosis. Losing his salary left us in a situation where we could no longer meet our mortgage payments. We looked for options to make up the shortfall and ended up hosting two spare bedrooms on Airbnb. We will provide tips for you to help you get started. If we can do it, so can you.
One of your first goals should be to reach Superhost status as quickly as possible. If you have Superhost status, your listing will show up ahead of others when a potential guest searches for a place to stay. We achieved this at the second quarterly assessment and have kept it ever since. You can do the same.
Start A Small Business
This site is not focused on hosting shared rooms or private baths because we haven’t done that. That said, if you are thinking of hosting a shared room you may find useful information here.
This site is intended for people who want to make extra money by hosting a room in their home. You benefit because you don’t have to purchase or rent another property. If this is all you do, your ‘business’ will be small (unless you live in a huge home). Most locations have tax advantages for businesses run from your home.
You can use your small business as a stepping stone to something bigger. Hosting an extra room on Airbnb puts you in a good position to host your place while you are away, earn more from your long term rental properties or turn your basement suite into a short term rental. When you are ready to move on to these steps there are lots of other sites to help you make the transition to something bigger.