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I think it would be unwise for your landlord to allow this. They have little to gain but a lot to lose. My wife and I rent two vacation homes on AirBnb and ot

I think it would be unwise for your landlord to allow this. They have little to gain but a lot to lose. My wife and I rent two vacation homes on AirBnb and other websites. We started with a one night minimum in the off-season and then quickly change to 3 nights. This essentially means we book fewer off-season weekend rentals. Here's why we did that: It takes 1 night to trash a house. So do you want someone to pay you $200 to trash your house or $600 to trash your house? You're also playing Russian roulette where every new guest is a trigger pull. The fewer trigger pulls, the less likely you are to take a bullet. We'd rather a higher vacancy rate with an overall fewer number of guests. In the end this means we might reduce our revenue by 10% to have 50% fewer guests. Your landlord would have to decide that couple extra thousand dollars a year would be worth hosting 20 random visitors. If that's how the numbers break down the risk isn't worth the reward IMO.

stevesearer 11y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. In my case I believe our city recently (or might soon) change the rules of short-term rentals to only allow for rentals longer that 30 days. What I was specifically thinking of doing was taking my family to another country for a month and renting the place out for the duration to help cover the expenses. Hopefully the longer term rental would weed out many of the types of people that might trash a place.
mrgordon 11y ago
Sounds like you need to take a larger deposit. Then you could rent it out for 1-2 nights at a time, assuming a cleaning fee that covers your costs, without worrying about damage. Not that the $1 million in insurance wouldn't cover you either way
- IanDrake 11y ago
  In my experience insurance will never make you whole. Stress + time spent managing the debacle @ my bill rate + lost income during repairs + items insurance fails to cover, etc... We've really only had one group trash a house and it was really just a big mess with no real physical damage. Took about $800 of extra cleaning and was handled by the deposit.

stevesearer 11y ago

Yeah, that makes sense. In my case I believe our city recently (or might soon) change the rules of short-term rentals to only allow for rentals longer that 30 days. What I was specifically thinking of doing was taking my family to another country for a month and renting the place out for the duration to help cover the expenses. Hopefully the longer term rental would weed out many of the types of people that might trash a place.

mrgordon 11y ago

Sounds like you need to take a larger deposit. Then you could rent it out for 1-2 nights at a time, assuming a cleaning fee that covers your costs, without worrying about damage. Not that the $1 million in insurance wouldn't cover you either way

IanDrake 11y ago
In my experience insurance will never make you whole. Stress + time spent managing the debacle @ my bill rate + lost income during repairs + items insurance fails to cover, etc... We've really only had one group trash a house and it was really just a big mess with no real physical damage. Took about $800 of extra cleaning and was handled by the deposit.