Short advice from Tim Hubbard on setting minimum-night requirements for vacation rentals: set minimum nights based on the market average length of stay to maximize reservations, avoid blanket long minima (e.g., seven nights) unless the market genuinely averages that, and make exceptions for short special-event windows.
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Your minimum nights should be based off your average length of stay. And so if your market has an average length of stay of two nights and your minimum stay requirement is three nights, well yes, you better believe that you're leaving a lot of money on the table. A lot of old school vacation rental markets. I saw this at the VRMA the last time I was there just this last year. They still offer seven night minimum reservations because they're in an old school place where they. That's just the way it was. But that shouldn't be the case, right? Unless it happens that in that market the average stay is always seven nights but it's never that way. Right? We know that sometimes there's a special event and maybe the event's only five nights and it's in an off season. Well then the middle night stay for that special event should be five nights, but the rest of the year should be set up in a way to get the max amount of reservations.