Dissecting the WORST Airbnb Listing I Could Find

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What's up guys, it's James here and in today's video, I'm going to be breaking down one of the worst Airbnb listings that I was able to find. In a recent video, I dissected an amazing Airbnb listing where I thought everything was really just nailed on the listing has done very, very well by a student of ours, Kimberly. And today I've got a another listing to review. Now this one is not so great. This is one of the worst listings I was able to find. Now, mind you, I didn't spend hours and hours scouring to find the worst one, I basically just looked in a specific area look for one of the lowest reviewed listings that seemed to be pretty poorly set up. And here we are. So I'm going to break it down. And I'm going to share with you all the constructive feedback that I have for this listing. The goal here is not to just bash on this listing or on this host, but just to provide constructive and critical feedback on what could be done to improve this listing overall and some of the critical errors being made here. So hopefully, you don't make these errors yourself with your own listings. So that being said, we'll go ahead and dive into in just a second here. Before doing that, I just want to remind you, there are some free trainings linked in the description down below. So it's a little bit of a pick your own path depends on whether you want to may manage other people's properties, you want to invest in properties, short term rental, or if you already have a space or property that you host, and you just want to get better at hosting whatever your path might be. There are links in the description down below for free trainings for each one of those paths. 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And we can think about as we go here, what are some better headlines that we could use to replace this one, and we'll kind of figure that out as we go. Now right off the bat before we jump into the photos. One thing I noticed here is that it's three bedrooms, three beds, one bath, and it says six guests. Now, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to stay with five other people and all six of us be using one bath. So I'd probably consider maybe turning one of these bedrooms into an office space to make better use of the space because you really can't accommodate six people and in a place like this, you really can only accommodate maybe four people I would say for people it's kind of the max with one bathroom. So you're let's jump into into our photos here. Now right off the bat if we actually jump back out of here and we look at the cover photo, it's dark, really poorly lit, the blinds are closed, I believe it's night out as well. And it's a bedroom that really has nothing going on except for some gray paint on the walls and a bed in a night table. So not necessarily what I would choose as a cover photo because it really doesn't make the space look attractive. It makes it feel pretty dungeon II so I think it's a pretty bad photo to use as your cover photo because you're not really highlighting a great space and the listing no description on the photo so it doesn't tell me any information and the photo looks like it was taken in Half a Second on an iPhone. Without any real care the doorframe was poking in here the lighting is bad the angle is bad. You can see this kind of foggy vignetting around the photo tells me it's been taken with a low quality camera that you know it just is all pixelated here. pretty terrible photo I think we could do a lot better than that. Even if you don't want to put the money into any one just use your iPhone you can do a way better job than this but I would always recommend hiring a professional photographer. We've also just got 13 photos as we can see so not going to be a really great chance to get any you know good mood setting shots, answer a lot of questions or give me a real feel for the space. I have no idea where this place is you know how its laid out where it's located. I just start right in the bedroom go to another bedroom. The bedding is not that well made.
You know you can see the tags sticking out here. You know this bed it looks pretty nice. You've got some throw pillows on there. So at least the beds made up nicely. That's a plus. No clock on table, no lamp nothing just absolute bare bones, the bare essentials that I would need So I'm not going to be expecting much from this place.
The doors are left open the blinds are still closed lighting is still terrible. So really poor job done with the photos here. And then we've got these weird curtains along the wall. I don't know what they're blocking but I'm scared of what's behind them. We've got a random table in the middle of the space here. It looks like maybe this is the entrance a door left open to what looks like the dark abyss and then yeah, that's really all we've got going on in this photo again, really poor lighting really bad photo. Terrible angle. Yeah, just low quality. Same thing here. Dark low quality scary. I'm more scared than anything looking at this photo of what the heck is going on in the rest of this place. It's just so dark and Dungeon II and I don't have any concept of like, what I actually have for amenities here because there's no description no questions getting answered a hallway shot that is, you know, just slightly off kilter off angle. Again, really poor lighting, you're getting the gist of it here. This is it. I mean, it's a it's a decently nice space. Like you could add some decoration to it, but just not a single thing above the bare necessities has been added. You haven't added a lick of decoration, aside from these curtains that seem to be blocking the Door to Nothingness. Yeah, maybe that's a rug there. I don't know, there's just really really little aside from the bare bare Bare Essentials here. So I would do a little more room. Okay, now what is this is a room with a some kind of leather couch, it looks like it was made out of strippers boots, I wouldn't personally want to sit on that thing, I would probably just get that out of the listing. And I don't know what space this is in here is a terrible shot of the bathroom that doesn't showcase listing, it's got a toilet paper roll, it looks like someone just finished using that toilet roll and just set it on the counter there as opposed to putting on a holder, the shower curtain is slightly open indicating that maybe there's something that's going to jump out of there and try to kill us. And here we are, again, just a bearing closet left wide open, you've got really just the bare necessities here. I don't know if this is the same bedroom that I was looking at before. And then here we are comfortable ranch style brick front. So the one caption that we have so far. And it's telling us pretty much nothing about the property not highlighting the neighborhood, anything like that, really no care was put into these photos or making them appear even decent. And that's capped off with one that I really have to tilt my head to the side to see this properly. Why you did not take the extra couple of seconds to you know just reorient your camera so that it was at least angled properly. I don't understand. So yeah, photos, I would say on a scale of one to 10 they get a one they couldn't be much worse. So again, I'm I tried to add in a little bit of dry humor there. Hopefully you guys find me funny. If not, yeah, whatever, you know, do the best I can. I'm not a comedian, I'm trying to try to help people with Airbnbs I am certainly not a comedian. But in all honestly I just want to say as much as I made a few of what I thought were jokes there, I was not intending to be, you know, overly, you know, bashful on the host or the listing, I just think like, honestly, there really wasn't a lot of care or time or energy put into these photos. So and that just shows through. So I am trying to be you know, critical, there's just not a lot that is done right here. For me to compliment I generally would try to give some constructive feedback and mix in some compliments. But honestly, aside from you know, like making this bed nicely, there's really just not a lot that was done right here. And it seems like that's from a lack of effort. Like let's be real here we didn't we didn't even orient the camera in in a decent angle on this last photo, I just don't think this person really cared to take the time. So I think that reshooting this would do wonders for the listing. I think that adding a bunch of decoration would be fantastic just to give the place some more kind of character some more a little bit more than just the bare necessities adding some amenities and then again, I'm descriptions to the photo so I know what it is that I'm looking at those things would would really go a long way. And I'll check out the description. So we've got Okay, so eight miles away from the Atlanta airport, 70 minutes away from downtown Atlanta, less than one mile from South like mall, quiet neighborhood big backyard, three car parking 20 minutes from Six Flags. Okay, that's, I mean, not not great, but not bad. It's not awful. It gives me some some good information that I think would be important to know about the about the this space, I would focus more so on some of the just kind of structuring this a little bit differently. This space. Now we're going into it's got just like some random points here, which I will just put a header on it. So I know what the space like what this is supposed to be about. And then no parties or events at all smoking fund is $200. Please read make sure read the house rules prior to booking any parties you're gathering, resulting in a fee $300 for all violations. So right off the bat, we're just kind of going in with with what you can't do the fines I'm gonna impose on you. I'm terrified. I think you're going to try to grab my money. I don't know why you're highlighting that as one of the first things in your description, adding Step two, your description does not make it any more enforceable, you'll want to add to your house rules instead of to your description. So I just wouldn't recommend having this in your, in your description at all. And then if there are any issues with your state, please contact me for resolution while you're in the home. I can't fix or resolve anything, if any issues was brought to my attention after checkout. So I'm not going to be a big stickler on the grammar. I don't think that's super important. But I think a little bit more care could be can be made with the grammar throughout this and then yeah, again, you're you're you're already putting into my mind I'm going to have issues during my stay and that that's been an issue in the past. And you're kind of just trying to shirk off responsibility. I can't fix your resolve anything if it was brought to my attention after checkout. Well, you know, you certainly can resolve for the next guests and I would hope that you would. So again, really you're you're just kind of leading with all the wrong things here. You must put the for any guests that we'll be checking on Tuesday. You must put the put the trash bin to the curb on Tuesday night for early Wednesday morning trash pickup. Great so now I've got chores to do. Awesome. That does not make me want to stay at your place. $50 fine if this is not done, okay, so $50 fine if I don't do my chores, that feels a lot like my mom telling me that I'm not going to get my allowance anymore but even worse, she's going to take money out of my bank account if I don't do my chores. That is absolutely outrageous. That is your responsibilities property aren't not the guests imagine checking into a hotel and having them tell you that you need to take your garbage out to the curb or you're going to get fine that is absolute insanity. That's honestly laughable. I've never seen that before. So already like it's just fine after fine after fine a fee of $200 a fee of $200 No parties regarding a $200 fee $45 inconvenience fee. I want to see what this is if any movies channels are order you're required to pay that amount plus taxes and a $45 inconvenience fee. Wow okay if any furniture or appliances moved a fee of 40 of $75 will be charged so if you move that chair away from that glass table they're 75 bucks check out time 11am So if I feel dollar fee will be assessed if you are in the home at 11:01am without prior written approval not 1102 1101 If you were in one minute beyond 11am $75 fee There we go. Wow, that gave me no information about the property no information that makes you want to book everything that makes you want to run for the hills. I don't feel nearly as bad about about bringing this listing after seeing this because this host seems to not want to be hosting at all. This does not seem to me like a listing that even ought to be on Airbnb. I don't think that there's really anything overly constructive I can say about this. Everything about it is just awful in the description, you know I really am at almost a loss for words here like this is it's just kind of absurd. When we look at you know we're trying to cram six people into a one bathroom property with awful photos and I'm going to charge them for absolutely everything we possibly can charge them for and additional fees and we're just you know already expecting issues and the reviews seem to reflect that right so I think this listing will likely get shut down pretty soon because of all the bad reviews. You can see there are some decent reviews here and then we can we can see there are a few really concerning ones you know only if I was able to add pictures to show you guys that this house is not up to par very dirty there was mold the bottom of the garbage can dirty toothpicks in the cupboard and on top of the cupboards inside were filthy the shower and it looks like it's served the whole pandemic and has bugs not clean at all
reach it the host and now that I sent them pictures of the house the client my request for a refund, not even full refund. And I couldn't get my cleaning feet back Never again will stay in hotels from now on, or definitely not recommend this house. And we've got a few other ones that are highlighting that there are some roaches in the property. Do not believe them or their abuser, roaches everywhere smelled like we'd had to buy a lot of cleaning products spend over $100 flood damage on floors and roof bathroom really small and for falling apart. Oh listen, everything was messed up. Do not stay here. So yeah, there's some really big warning signs here. There are some random generic reviews that say nice house and there are some that aren't terrible, but I just you know, I look at this and I go run for the hills. There's no way that I would be spending my money here. And I think this host has a lot of room for improvement starting with just understanding. You know what Airbnb is supposed to be as a platform because I don't think this really lines up with the person that is supposed to be hosting on Airbnb, just given the fact they seem to not really care. So I think that's probably my biggest piece of feedback here is just care just you know, put some effort in act like you actually care. You didn't respond to any of those negative reviews. There's nothing on here that indicates that you care about your guests or that you are trying to do what's best for them or trying to be of service to your guests. It looks like you're trying to just charge Guess before everything you possibly can not fix anything not do any work. So, no, I don't think that's going to pay off too well, long term again, hope this was a valuable video for you guys see the ugly side of what Airbnb can be if you don't do it properly and hopefully you've got a whole list of things not to do, but honestly, I hope that you weren't even considering doing most of these things. Because this is again, just kind of leaving me speechless. Again, if you guys want to learn more about the do's of hosting the things you need to do in order to succeed whether it's managing properties on Airbnb, whether it's investing in short term rental properties, or whether it's hosting your own home or space on Airbnb, check out the free trainings that are linked in the description down below. If you liked this video, please give it a big thumbs up hit that like button. I really appreciate it. It does a lot to help me grow this channel and last but not least for any of you guys that find me hilarious hit that subscribe button if you don't find me hilarious hit the subscribe button. If you liked this video, hit the subscribe button. Whoever you are, if you're watching and you're already you're still here on this video, then just hit the subscribe button. You must like hearing me talk if you stuck it out this long. So hit the subscribe button and I'll see you next video.