Visiting Five Airbnbs in Six Days: Tips from a guest for hosting a successful airbnb

As we continue on our journey to hosting an airbnb, we decided that the best way to understand what we needed to do with our place was to get out there and try a bunch. We have stayed at airbnbs before, but never with the mindset of starting our own. It was time to take a trip and see what there was to learn. With our bikes in tow, we headed down to Kentucky bourbon country. The plan was to bike to a new town or city each day, tasting bourbons along the way and staying at airbnbs. 5 airbnbs, 6 days, 165 miles on our bikes. We explored Kentucky’s rolling hills meandering through cornfields and by full tobacco barns. Black rail fences and pastures of horses guided us along to the tall bourbon rick houses where we learned about and tasted the sweet corn whisky. After a long day on the bike, a clean comfortable place to rest and relax was a welcome sight. Here is a list of the things we appreciated and came to expect from an airbnb, and also some of the things we decided we didn’t like.

Picture in front of one of our favorite airbnbs in Louisville, Bed and Bike Nulu
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Airbnb Follow-Up: Next Steps

Kasey and I have been seriously thinking about starting this up as a passive income stream. We are in the process of evaluating the space and the impact to our lifestyle, but with each discussion we inch closer towards making this happen. I want to make sure we dot all of our i’s and cross all of our t’s. Here is what we need to understand before we would have our first guest:

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How we accidentally discovered a frugal lifestyle

Kasey and I both graduated from Penn State with our bachelor degrees in biomedical engineering. I wanted to go into the medical device industry and he wanted to get his pHD and was considering academia. The good thing about getting your pHD in bioengineering, most time they will pay for your schooling and give you as stipend, the bad thing is that is is usually 6 years to complete and they, at the time, paid a meager $23K stipend which thankfully included health insurance. We both are very fortunate to have parents who invested in our education. Kasey did not have debt coming out of school and I only had about 25K. 

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