Tim Hubbard advises short-term rental hosts to add personal touches to improve guest experience, giving examples such as leaving a welcome note or food. He cautions hosts to be careful with gifts like wine because of legal (drinking age) and tax implications, noting he is not a CPA and recommending hosts check tax rules.
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Number three, personal touches. So if you've been in the short term rental space for a while and you've stayed in a lot of them, you know that there's some properties you show up to and it just feels like you're showing up to some property that there was no care put into it. It looks like someone opened a bunch of Ikea boxes and they just threw it up in a weekend. That's not a super great experience. Right? It's nice to have some personal touches in there. And there's several ways to do this. So the first way you can do this is just by leaving some little note, leaving some food, for example. I know that some people leave wine, but make sure that you're careful with those things because there are. Well, first of all, it's the drinking age. You know, if you're giving wine to someone that's not of age, that could create an issue. But there also may be some tax consequences. If you're providing hotel type amenities, it may change your tax consequences. So I am not a cpa, but make sure you look into that.