How to rent a room on Airbnb?

But how the hell do we rent a room on Airbnb? We explain the procedure in detail in this article!

You finally decided to rent your local on Airbnb and you don't know where to start? In a series of two articles, we will teach you how to rent a room, but also a house or apartment on the most used tourist rental platform in the world. This ticket is interested in how to create a room rental announcement on Airbnb.

The steps described below assume that you have an account on Airbnb. You can create a Host account on the dedicated page . It is then enough to select the “to become host” option from the home page.

#1. Choose a general category

The general category of accommodation for rent is none other than the type of accommodation you would like to offer on Airbnb. The platform recognizes 6 types of housing in France:

• Apartment
• House
• Bed and breakfast
• Single accommodation
• Bed & breakfast
• Boutique-hotel

You will need the list and the options included, choose a general category. It is important to note that this general category cannot be changed. As a result, if you’re mistaken in the general category and your room is registered as an apartment, on the one hand it reduces your Airbnb rating, on the other hand it will be necessary to delete your ad and take it back from zero by taking care this time to choose the correct general category.

#2. Choose a type of accommodation (room in this case)

It is here to select a type of accommodation. Because indeed, a room is a room in France. However in other heavens a room may be of a particular form or provision and thus bear a unique name. Airbnb France offers 5 types of rooms:

• Bed & breakfast
• Casa particular (Cuba)
• Holiday rental on the farm
• Minsu, Taiwan
• Gite
• Ryokan, Japan

Same rules as in the general category. If you’re wrong about housing type (bedroom in this case) you’ll lose valuable points of host Airbnb, lose in terms of reference and you’ll have to delete the ad and renew it by taking care to choose the type of accommodation this time.

#3. Characterize the room for rent

This part is quite delicate too. You will need to inform the number of rooms available to your property. If you do not have a property but rather a simple room, you will have to select the option 2 to 5 rooms from the selection list and then select only one room at the next step.

Another important detail, is the room private or shared? Let Airbnb know so that it matches the features of the announcement.

#4. Clarify rental conditions

The next step is to clarify the rental conditions. There is a question of selecting:

• The maximum number of travellers can stay in the guest room,
• How many rooms do you rent in your accommodation? (Remember it was mentioned in the features to select option 2 to 5 rooms from the list of choice and then select only one room rented under the rental conditions),
• The number of beds available in the room and usable by the traveller,
• The presence or not of common spaces,
• The type (private or shared) and the number of bathrooms.

The last step of this part is to give your exact address so that Airbnb can locate the accommodation. As well as country, city and other information. When everything is OK, Airbnb proposes to confirm the accuracy of the information you provided. All these steps are summarized within these screenshots:

#5. The content of the housing

This part is interested in the content of the rental accommodation that you propose. Does he have furniture? What if? What are the equipment provided? It’s a list with check boxes that you’ll need to fill to the next step:

#6. Passenger spaces

This is the ultimate step in creating your ad for your room. At least with respect to basic characteristics. You will need to select the common areas (if any) usable by travellers who will rent your room:

If there is no common part to share or if you do not want to rent any common part in your accommodation, simply leave the boxes unchanged.

#7. Give the tone of your room

This part mainly concerns the announcement itself. You will have to offer the title of your ad, a grand description of your room for rent on Airbnb. But also download on the platform pictures of the property for rent :

It should be noted that you can download the photos later. To the extent that you do not yet have professional clichés made and highlight your room for rent. Simply click "Later" as shown in the following capture:

The suite is simply to provide housing information and its environment. Your ad, description of the accommodation, quality of life nearby, shops and others nearby:

#8. Prepare to accommodate travellers

This part is mainly interested in the availability of your room for rent. So you will set the days during which you want to rent your room on the platform.

One. calendar In particular, you can select in more detail the days when your accommodation is accessible. In order to optimize its performance by increasing the number of reservations among others:

In addition, you will be aware of the elements that frame on the Airbnb platform the rental of your room. This includes the information that your tenants need to provide for secure rental, for example. Or, for example, the Airbnb legislation and the taxes submitted to your activity on the platform:

Now that your ad is created, don’t forget to add pictures to it and to serve you with it AirDNA metric tool for improve your bookings and multiply as far as possible the gains.