(00:00) glamping is all the rage recently lots of people are interested in the incredible amount of money that you can make on Airbnb and short-term rental platforms with unique glamping style properties whether it’s geodesic domes tree houses yurt all kinds of unique properties perform really well and not to spoil any surprises but they can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on short-term rental sites like Airbnb so this video I’m going to jump on to airdna with you which for any of you that don’t know
(00:34) airdna is a site that has data on exactly how well these types of properties do perform and we’re going to look at some of the best performing unique short-term rental properties throughout the United States of America and see just how well they perform and try to answer the question of which types of properties tend to perform the best is it the domes is it the Ys is it the tree houses so if you are interested in glamping or any kind of unique properties unique stays then you can get some guidance on which one might be the
(01:03) best direction to go now if you’re interested in more videos like this that explore other parts of the world outside of just the United States or that look at other top performing properties let me know in the comment section down below or drop a like on this video to show me that you like this kind of content it’s a little bit different from stuff I normally do but I find it really really interesting to be able to jump in here and look at some of these really really cool properties and see just how
(01:26) well they perform so let’s jump right into it and let’s start looking at some really cool properties so right off the bat here I’m filtering for the United States all listings that are unique style properties so this is a variety of different properties not just Yurts A-frames geodesic domes that kind of thing you can see here there’s an entire Island that does about $645,000 in Revenue in the last year there’s a castle estate which I’m going to dive into a little bit further and this place
(01:58) did 1.4 million dollar in Revenue over the last year which is truly crazy and then there’s some really really cool luxury lodges and larger properties but we’re mostly going to be diving into today is some of those really really unique stays so let’s jump into the first one here honestly just for fun more than anything I wanted to jump into this uh castle house estate apparently was featured on HGTV it did $1.
(02:26) 4 million in revenue and I just think that that deserves a little bit of a look through to see what it is they’re doing so so well so you can see this is truly a compound like this is unlike anything else you could ever imagine on Airbnb and we can even go and pull up the Airbnb listing but this is really the kind of place that you would rent for a party for a big event it’s really a venue more so than a than an accommodation and you can see that it’s just so so incredibly unique and different from anything you would get
(02:53) anywhere else but needless to say this property really really outperformed what you could ever even imagine now the the cool thing is it actually does have you can see some kind of Domes and Tents and Yurts stuff like that on the property so it is technically unique accommodations I can absolutely see how it’s classified as unique and the sleeping accommodations don’t look like they’re anything all that crazy you can see just a yurt with a bed in it it’s pretty straightforward but you can tell they
(03:18) put a lot into really marketing this place here they’ve got a container home and I’d imagine the whole place books out is one great big huge compound a lot of the time and so that’s just something that’s going to be really really hard to find anything like it if you are in the market for a big event venue that can accommodate this many people and you want something unique so they pretty much I would imagine have free reain to charge just about anything they want as far as their actual nightly rate is
(03:45) concerned so that’s a really cool property to start things off let’s start looking at some dare I say more modest properties than uh than this although they’re not really modest as you’ll see here so this is a geodesic dome it’s actually 8,000 ft be though so I want to start here to show what’s possible with a geodesic dome but don’t worry I’ve got some more geodesic domes in the rest of the video here that I’m going to highlight for you guys that are more in line with what you would probably expect
(04:12) when you think geodesic dome now I will admit myself that I didn’t really have any concept of geodesic domes being able to be something like this uh where you can actually have a fullon fullsize structure because everything that I’ve been exposed to in the geodesic dome world as I’m sure is pretty similar for you has been a somewhat temporary structure the kind of thing that you ship in and it’s kind of a kit piece you build it up I’ve actually got one of those at one of my properties and it
(04:41) performs really really well uh but this is very unique and cool and if we can get through here you can see it’s in a great location close to the water surrounded by Nature so really really cool property now this property did annual revenue over the last year of $226,000 so again it’s a little bit tough to really compare this to any other type of geodesic dome because of the fact that it’s a six-bedroom four and a half bath sleeps 16 people and really lots of properties that are that large could pull these kinds of numbers
(05:14) uh and no doubt the unique factor of being a dome does help it but I would say not nearly as much as just the sheer size of the property so if we jump over and now let’s look at something uh so here’s the actual listing on Airbnb now let’s jump over and look at something uh a a little bit more reasonable a little bit more actually modest now we can jump into the actual Airbnb listing for this one as well so this one as you can see if we jump back here this one did $251,000 in Revenue so still over a
(05:45) quarter million and when we look at it it really genuinely is just a YT now granted it’s a large YT and it is a YT in an incredible location and I think that’s something that people have to bear in mind is it with properties like these if you have really cool unique properties they can perform incredibly well and they can give you a really good return on your investment I’d be very very interested to see the return on investment on a property like this I imagine that for this property doing as well as it is it would be absolutely
(06:16) phenomenal however that doesn’t mean that just because you get a unique property and you plop it anywhere that it’s going to perform well ultimately a lot of the unique properties have a few kind of disadvantages that other properties don’t have and you have to be aware of that and you have to make sure that you have a strategy for overcoming those disadvantages namely the fact that most unique properties not this one necessarily this one is still a has the ability to accommodate eight gests but a
(06:45) lot of them are relatively small so you have to be mindful of that you have to make sure that you get a property that’s going to be able to still entice people to come and stay and pay a really high nightly rate even though it is small and a lot of time they’re also in more remote locations funny enough I can’t remember the exact reason why but I’ve actually looked at this property before and they’ve done a really really good job with the listing overall they’ve got lots of really great amenities things
(07:11) for people to do you can see the billiard table you can see they’ve got the fireplace you see they got the hot tub outside they’ve got a nice kind of home theater setup here uh and they’ve done a really good job of the photography they’ve got games they’ve got all kinds of stuff for people to do so in addition to it being a very unique place to stay it also is just a really really great wellone well-designed short-term rental property you can see they’ve really put a lot of effort into
(07:37) making it a place that has lots of things for people to do when they come out and stay here you don’t you’re not just going to sit around and look at the view forever so naturally having things like they’ve got archery here they’ve got games to play they’ve got a surround sound kind of movie theater type of setup they’ve got a hot tub they’ve got the incredible views there’s really just no shortage of things for people to do here and although it is a slightly more kind of ramped you don’t have quite as
(08:01) much space um it’s a little bit more of a unique setup inside that isn’t necessarily a great thing they really really play well to that by giving a lot of other reasons why you might uh choose to stay here um in addition to it just being obviously a gorgeous property in a gorgeous location so you’re then you can see how easily it easily people could justify coming and staying here even though they might not have the full private bedroom that they would otherwise have because of the unique shape of the of the YT things like that
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(09:33) for B&B tribe and I would love to see you on the inside let’s look at another property here this is a set of three geodesic domes uh that are also tree houses so think think about that this is someone who has now taken geodesic domes and tree houses and combined them into the same kind of thing and so again the theme Here is uniqueness you can see that the more unique this stay the more there is to experience the more you’re going to actually be booking for the experience rather than just the place to
(10:06) stay the better these properties tend to perform so you can see right off the bat that this property is going to do really really well because the cover photo like I already want to stay here not even showing the property right this is just to come and stay who doesn’t want to go and hang out in like a spider web in the tree trops like that’s already such a cool and unique experience that a lot of people would book just for that let alone the fact that you get to stay in geodesic dome tree houses so very very
(10:36) cool here you can see they’ve got a whole little Network here so again this is a really really great way and I’m not trying to say that no matter what that you have to make sure that your unique properties have a higher number of people they can accommodate but it absolutely does help and so one way to do that is by doing what these guys have done and booking out a set or a series of properties all as one as opposed to just one Dome per person cuz now you can you can attract larger groups of couples
(11:05) you don’t have to worry as much about people in one Dome getting along well with people in another Dome you can just book all three out and it also gives you flexibility it’s not like you have to book them all out at the same time to one big group you can book them out individually but it’s nice to have the option for either and you can see they’ve done extensive work of really really setting this up now the nice thing here as well is if you do decide to book it out like this then you can have certain amenities only be in one of
(11:34) the domes so for example having a bathroom or having a little kitchen area those things don’t need to be in every single Dome if you’re not going to have people sleeping or or have uh people just booking one of the domes they’re going to book the entire series then as long as they have access to that in one of the properties or one of the kind of accommodations then you’re going to be good so this is actually I think a really really smart way to set it up to be cost effective to be incredibly
(11:59) unique ique to obviously be uh just so so different from anything else out there that they’re they’re kind of putting themselves in a league entirely of their own now I personally have never heard of Campton Kentucky I couldn’t imagine is that incredible of a short-term rental market with all that much going for it but yet these people are able to generate over a qu million dollars on this set of properties here so super super cool really really interesting unique place to stay now let shift gears here and start looking at
(12:31) some tree houses because I found that in looking at the search results on air DNA for top performing unique properties a lot of the properties were larger you know Big Ranch type properties that just happen to be in the unique category but when we’re thinking about actual unique properties the things that come to mind tree houses domes Yurts campers that kind of thing tree houses were one of the most common things that came up time and time and time again and I think that has a large amount to do with just how
(13:02) cool of an experience it is to stay in a treeh house because again and I’ve talked about this in other videos but I’ll reiterate it here the uniqueness the cool experience is a lot of what people are buying more so than just a place to actually sleep so if you think about staying in a treehouse versus staying in a yard it’s a much cooler more unique experience to stay in the treehouse if you think about staying in an Airstream versus staying in an RV it’s much cooler more unique experience to stay in a cool vintage Airstream
(13:32) that’s all been all done up which is why in other videos we’ve seen that Airstream trailers that are done up really well perform way better than their more modern RV counterparts even though the modern RV may have nicer amenities it might even be in a slightly nicer location it might be you know in more de in a more uh an area with more demand it’s still going to be outperformed because that Airstream has that uniqueness Factor so you got to be thinking about the experience that guest are having when they stay with you in
(14:01) addition to all the normal things of you know the comfort of accommodation and are people looking accommodate all that sort of stuff here’s a property that in annual revenue it did uh just over $284,000 in the last 12 months here so needless to say this one’s performing really really well now I will say this property looks already to be pretty extensive this is a proper this would cost as much to build as any other home right yes it is technically a treehouse by the looks of it but I mean it’s kind
(14:33) of scraping by with that definition it’s more of a home that’s also in the trees than anything else I would say so it is different um it is definitely very unique very very cool it’s got a lot going for it but if you’re thinking adus and you’re thinking unique properties I know a lot of people are thinking I’m going to start with relatively small budget and then I’m going to get some really great cash flow from it and this is a more permanent structure obviously much larger much more extensive build
(15:01) this would cost quite a bit to build so it doesn’t necessarily fall into that same category um that being said again a few things I want to highlight here is just like we’re seeing along all these properties and we should expect it because we are in fact looking at some of the top performing properties in the entire us is that they all again are experiential properties they are properties where you’re going to go and you’re going to watch movies you’re going to hang out on this incredible you
(15:28) know walk out Kitchen on your patio you’re going to do some barbecuing you’re going to do some lounging you’re going to play Pacman on the Pac-Man machine you’re going to hang out by the hot tub there’s so much to do at this property one of the greatest ways that I can illustrate how big of an impact exactly that makes is a student of mine who has a co-hosting company came to me recently with a property that was a gorgeous brand new built property in a market where properties perform really
(15:55) really well and he had just launched it and he shared with me well the the property is just not doing that well and I can’t really figure out why we’ve got other properties in the same really similar area that are not as nice as this one frankly and they’re performing better they’re outperforming this property and he was looking for answers on why that was happening and after looking at the property with him I realized that the main thing holding this property back from being able to perform as well as the others was that
(16:24) there just wasn’t any clear reason why I as a guest would want to book that property it was a beautiful property there was you know well furnished but there just wasn’t anything to do while I was up there the listing didn’t do a good job of doing what this listing is doing of highlighting the different attractions nearby which in that case would have been great hiking trails Great skating great boating great kind of beaches for the summertime didn’t really highlight any of that stuff the other thing was that the listing itself
(16:54) didn’t have a lot of things to do while you were there other than just hang out there was no movie area there were no games there were no activities to do outside really nothing to do and so as a guest that’s thinking about potentially booking there I’m kind of stuck thinking well sure I can go and just sit on the couch in a really nice place but I can also just sit on my own couch at home and if you think about it with a listing like this being the exact opposite of that you can see that when you compare
(17:24) it to not booking a place you think well I can hang out the hot tub now I can watch movies here I can be outdoors I can have so much room for all my friends to come and hang out there’s so much communal space it’s not just a a dining room where we would all be cramped together we can all hang out and play Pac-Man we can go hiking we can go to the wax museum there’s just so much stuff to do and again people are buying experiences they’re buying activities here so that’s why this property a big
(17:50) part of why this property would perform as well as it has achieving almost $300,000 in Revenue now looking again let’s check out these much more more modest tree houses that still did $227,000 in Revenue over the last year here so again these ones are in Kentucky maybe there’s something I’m missing about Kentucky here has these properties that are just really really incredible but you can see already in like the second picture here there’s an incredible cool big huge slide sliding down from the tree houses I already want
(18:21) to stay here it’s already so unique and so cool and so interesting these properties are far far more rustic so goes to show that even if you don’t have a you know more traditionally beautiful well-appointed Modern Property not to say this property isn’t beautiful it’s beautiful in its own right but it just goes to show that it’s not about having all the Frills and the bells and whistles to get the property performing well it really is about the experience because this place again has just an
(18:51) incredible experience going for it you’ve got the slide imagine going with your kids here how much they would love it if you’ve ever heard of Great Wolf Lodge this is very reminiscent kind of a Great Wolf Lodge type of feel You’ve Got The Hammocks to hang out on you’ve got the slides you’ve got the webbing to to hang around and play in you’ve got the hot tub um and really it honestly looks like this listing is pretty under optimized all things considered it could be a lot nicer than what it is just the
(19:15) listing itself to Showcase this property and still yet it’s doing well over $200,000 in Revenue that goes to show that tree houses being such a unique stay if they’re done well can be really really cool now this this one I know is not really practical for a lot of you guys watching I just wanted to include it in the video because this has got to be one of the coolest Airbnb short-term rental properties I have ever come across this is another one of those ones that I think I might have seen it uh featured in a magazine somewhere or
(19:47) highlighted on a blog or something I know I’ve seen this before this is hands down got to be the coolest property I have ever seen ever full stop and you can tell that’s working out well for them because this property made over $200,000 in the last year um so really really cool and this is a property that’s over in Bonnie dun California not super familiar with the area but if you think here if you look at this this is already just probably the most unique property that you could ever possibly imagine it’s called The Acorn I think or
(20:21) the pine cone I’ll have to double check on that um and it basically is this suspended yeah pine cone treeh house that’s suspended in the air and is fully Made of Glass and Metal so you can basically it’s like a geodesic dome where you can actually look out from inside of it and see everything and it’s just got to be one of the coolest things ever you see you’ve got this kind of webbing that you can come and hang out on you really would literally feel like you’re just living in a pine cone up in
(20:50) the air and you can see they’ve got the the bathroom down here so you have a bit of privacy cuz obviously you probably wouldn’t want to go to the bathroom up in a huge spended pine cone that makes a lot of sense to me this is a good example of a property that um in spite of from what I can see here really not having a whole lot to do in terms of activities this property is just so incredibly unique that it really makes up for it but bear in mind that if you’re not if you’re not listing a literal huge one-of-a kind pine cone
(21:24) that’s suspended in the air then you really do want to make sure that your guests have things to do while they stay at the property that’s going to make their stay you know worthwhile make it worth coming for them I really do believe this property could be doing a lot better than it is if they had additional things to do around here because looking at the biggest drawback I see with this property is just that it’s you know it’s just there’s not really that much to do I’m imagining I’m
(21:50) in the middle of the forest I’m going to get here it’s going to be super cool for a few hours and then I’m going to be thinking well what do I actually want to do what am I going to do here and I think this property is so unique and so cool that I would still book it even knowing that I’m not going to have a whole lot of stuff to do after the first couple hours but for a lot of properties that’s not the case so just bear that in mind I also want to look at their calendar because I’m just so incredibly
(22:15) curious how easy or difficult it would be to book this place yeah you can see that there’s very very sparse availability in this property now if I wanted to come and stay for a weekend they’re charging 650 us per night for one single bed that can accommodate two people right now that is incredible that is a lot that they’re charging for that property and I’m not surprised because it’s just so incredibly unique and there R views just incredible as well I’d imagine lots of them now they actually
(22:48) have a 4.86 which is a bit lower than I would have expected but I mean I couldn’t imagine people not being just blown away by this property um now let’s jump over so that’s basically the unique properties that I wanted to show you guys here now let me know your thoughts in the comment section down below you can see here that there’s plenty of opportunity to be making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with the right unique property that offers a really really cool experience to guess and is unlike other things that they
(23:18) would be able to find elsewhere and you can really set yourself into a league of your own as far as the competition is concerned by just dramatically outperforming the competition making your stay so unique so I want to know your guys thoughts if this is helpful if you thought this is cool if you have any other questions comments anything else you want to see let me know let me know in the comment section down there now if you’re interested in learning more about Airbnb hosting co-hosting investing Property Management hosting your own
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