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Why NOW is the Time to List Your Vacation Rental

24 Sept 2022 · 0 min

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Mark Simpson (speaker) argues that current market demand for vacation rentals is very high: a property listed on platforms like Airbnb can be booked as soon as the next weekend. He frames this as both a blessing (easy revenue generation) and a curse (hosts may become lazy or over-reliant on effortless bookings). The excerpt includes an anecdotal claim about immediate bookings and mentions travel types (vacations, staycations, workations).

We are in a, in a world, in an industry where we are so in demand, even with everything that's going on, it's so in, in demand. So we could right now, put a property up on Airbnb on one platform, take pictures and it can be booked out next weekend because there's so many people who are wanting vacation, staycations, workation. It's a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it is so easy to generate revenue, but it's a curse because then you become lazy and you become over reliant because it is so easy.