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SUNDAY From 3 to 30 Airbnb Properties Our Explosive Journey

8 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker recounts scaling an Airbnb business: they started with a single property, grew to three, and then 'in the last 15 months' expanded rapidly from three to 30 properties. The fast growth outpaced preparation — they lacked automation and business systems, which led to being spread thin managing guest communications, maintenance, and constant operational issues across multiple properties.

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30 properties.

They had three properties before the rapid growth.

In the last 15 months.

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So we grew pretty fast. So we started our first Airbnb and then had that for about a year. Then we went to three. And then in the last 15 months, we went from three to 30. So we kind of exploded all of a sudden, and we didn't have the systems in place ahead of time before we exploded. So we didn't have automation systems set up. We weren't running like a big business because we only had three Airbnbs. We didn't have to run like a big business. And then once we exploded, because it was kind of we were trying to expand, but not that fast. And so once we exploded, all of our time was spent managing the properties, guest communications, fixing things when the properties would break, because when you have 30 properties, something's always breaking. A guest always needs something. And so we got spread thin really fast. And we were wearing a lot of hats.