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Profitable Properties: Airbnb Insider Secrets to Find, Optimize, Price, & Book Direct Any Short-Term Rental Investment for Year-Round Occupancy
You don’t need 100 rental properties for short-term rental success. Profitable Properties is about doing more with less. It’s about maximizing the ROI from each real estate investment.
Written by a prior Airbnb employee, superhost, guest of 2,000+ nights on Airbnb, and author of best-seller Optimize YOUR Bnb, Profitable Properties is an all-in-one guide for new and existing short-term rental owners and real estate investors.
Other books talk about basics, but not Profitable Properties. Daniel Rusteen is intimately familiar with Airbnb and teaches you the details you need to optimize every aspect of your rental business to win in your market, year after year. Profitable Properties was written to be listened to by section. Start where you’d
Part 1: Introduction (new hosts start here) Part 2: Vacation Rental Market Analysis Part 3: Build and Optimize Your Online Listing Part 4: Elevate Your Hospitality (automation) Part 5: Pricing Part 6: Direct Bookings (the easy way) Part 7: Questions and Answers Part 8: How To Rank Number One on Airbnb (top 13 factors) Short-term rentals (STR) are here to stay. There’s just one information overload! Real estate investors, influencers, and hospitality professionals are all branding themselves as STR experts. How do you know who to trust? Rusteen is a successful real estate investor and his prior book sold more than 50,000 copies by word of mouth alone, while maintaining an 80 percent and five-star review rating.
Profitable Properties gives you an edge to out earn your competition for year-round
Master pricing (and customizations) with the author’s two-step strategy Remotely manage your rentals with only one hour per week Take better photos than professionals with your smartphone Identify profitable markets, micro-markets, and properties to get a 90 percent return like the author Ways to get bonus wishlist saves to increase your search rank A LOT more! Allow the author to tip the scale in your favor with his insider knowledge and experience. Buy now!
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Written by a prior Airbnb employee, superhost, guest of 2,000+ nights on Airbnb, and author of best-seller Optimize YOUR Bnb, Profitable Properties is an all-in-one guide for new and existing short-term rental owners and real estate investors.
Other books talk about basics, but not Profitable Properties. Daniel Rusteen is intimately familiar with Airbnb and teaches you the details you need to optimize every aspect of your rental business to win in your market, year after year. Profitable Properties was written to be listened to by section. Start where you’d
Part 1: Introduction (new hosts start here) Part 2: Vacation Rental Market Analysis Part 3: Build and Optimize Your Online Listing Part 4: Elevate Your Hospitality (automation) Part 5: Pricing Part 6: Direct Bookings (the easy way) Part 7: Questions and Answers Part 8: How To Rank Number One on Airbnb (top 13 factors) Short-term rentals (STR) are here to stay. There’s just one information overload! Real estate investors, influencers, and hospitality professionals are all branding themselves as STR experts. How do you know who to trust? Rusteen is a successful real estate investor and his prior book sold more than 50,000 copies by word of mouth alone, while maintaining an 80 percent and five-star review rating.
Profitable Properties gives you an edge to out earn your competition for year-round
Master pricing (and customizations) with the author’s two-step strategy Remotely manage your rentals with only one hour per week Take better photos than professionals with your smartphone Identify profitable markets, micro-markets, and properties to get a 90 percent return like the author Ways to get bonus wishlist saves to increase your search rank A LOT more! Allow the author to tip the scale in your favor with his insider knowledge and experience. Buy now!
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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October 3, 2023
SUMMARY:
Every STR owner should buy this book! If you implement the advice and get just ONE booking that you otherwise wouldn’t have, you’ll have already recouped your cost multiple times over. If you’re going back and forth on whether you should buy it, just spend the money. Buy it now. I promise you will be glad you did.
Danny is my favorite STR educator. I requested the library buy his first book, Optimize Your BNB, but I bought this second one for myself because I wanted to have it on hand. His stuff is so helpful. I’ve had my STR for a little over a year now and have 30+ 5 star reviews with people telling me all the time it’s the best Airbnb they’ve ever stayed at and that I “thought of everything", and Danny has had a big influence on how I think about guest experience. I recommend his books to my other STR owner friends all the time.
WHAT I LOVED:
• *Super* practical with specific steps and concrete examples for implementation, for example, optimizing a listing so that it actually converts. I got 3 new bookings in 5 days after making some small tweaks to my listing title/thumbnail/description.
• Suggestions to create an exceptional guest experience that get you 5-star reviews (which helps your search ranking) and repeat customers. I love his focus on the guest experience and how to surprise & delight over just optimizing for heads in beds.
• An entire pricing section - I swear I heard angels sing when I saw this. After doing this for a year, figuring out the right pricing has continued to be a struggle, to find that sweet spot between making money/increasing occupancy but not going so low you attract the wrong kind of guests. Most of the advice out there to figure out pricing is pretty vague and unhelpful like “just look at what others are charging” or “just use a dynamic pricing software.” Danny actually goes into the HOW of using dynamic pricing and the WHY. This whole section made so much sense and was exactly what I was looking for.
• Extra bonuses that value it far above the cost of the book itself, like wording you can copy/paste and use in your listing or guest messaging, or discounts on recommended software.
• A big section on choosing the right property. I just Airbnb out my own house, but if I were ever going to buy a second one, you bet this section would be my bible while I did this. Avoiding a “just okay” location could save you tens of thousands in the long run.
There’s so much more but what you need to know is this: if you’re an STR owner, this should be your new bible.
I recommend reading with a pen/paper/highlighter and as you go, take notes/make a checklist of things to update/change on your listing or in your STR. Then, go back and re-read sections as you implement changes one by one. There’s SO much information packed in here that it will take you ages if you try to change everything all at once as you go through the book. Ask me how I know 🤓
Thanks, Danny, for making such an incredible resource, and you actually did convince me to finally create a digital guidebook, so mission accomplished!
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommended
Every STR owner should buy this book! If you implement the advice and get just ONE booking that you otherwise wouldn’t have, you’ll have already recouped your cost multiple times over. If you’re going back and forth on whether you should buy it, just spend the money. Buy it now. I promise you will be glad you did.
Danny is my favorite STR educator. I requested the library buy his first book, Optimize Your BNB, but I bought this second one for myself because I wanted to have it on hand. His stuff is so helpful. I’ve had my STR for a little over a year now and have 30+ 5 star reviews with people telling me all the time it’s the best Airbnb they’ve ever stayed at and that I “thought of everything", and Danny has had a big influence on how I think about guest experience. I recommend his books to my other STR owner friends all the time.
WHAT I LOVED:
• *Super* practical with specific steps and concrete examples for implementation, for example, optimizing a listing so that it actually converts. I got 3 new bookings in 5 days after making some small tweaks to my listing title/thumbnail/description.
• Suggestions to create an exceptional guest experience that get you 5-star reviews (which helps your search ranking) and repeat customers. I love his focus on the guest experience and how to surprise & delight over just optimizing for heads in beds.
• An entire pricing section - I swear I heard angels sing when I saw this. After doing this for a year, figuring out the right pricing has continued to be a struggle, to find that sweet spot between making money/increasing occupancy but not going so low you attract the wrong kind of guests. Most of the advice out there to figure out pricing is pretty vague and unhelpful like “just look at what others are charging” or “just use a dynamic pricing software.” Danny actually goes into the HOW of using dynamic pricing and the WHY. This whole section made so much sense and was exactly what I was looking for.
• Extra bonuses that value it far above the cost of the book itself, like wording you can copy/paste and use in your listing or guest messaging, or discounts on recommended software.
• A big section on choosing the right property. I just Airbnb out my own house, but if I were ever going to buy a second one, you bet this section would be my bible while I did this. Avoiding a “just okay” location could save you tens of thousands in the long run.
There’s so much more but what you need to know is this: if you’re an STR owner, this should be your new bible.
I recommend reading with a pen/paper/highlighter and as you go, take notes/make a checklist of things to update/change on your listing or in your STR. Then, go back and re-read sections as you implement changes one by one. There’s SO much information packed in here that it will take you ages if you try to change everything all at once as you go through the book. Ask me how I know 🤓
Thanks, Danny, for making such an incredible resource, and you actually did convince me to finally create a digital guidebook, so mission accomplished!
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommended
January 5, 2025
Profitable Properties stands out as an invaluable resource for anyone navigating the complexities of property investments. The book is impressively well-researched, ensuring every piece of advice is backed by detailed market insights and thoughtful analysis. Daniel’s guidance is both practical and actionable, allowing clients to make informed decisions with confidence.
What truly sets him apart is his ability to communicate effectively and succinctly. He distills complex information into clear, concise points, making even the most intricate aspects of property investment accessible and easy to understand.Highly recommended!
What truly sets him apart is his ability to communicate effectively and succinctly. He distills complex information into clear, concise points, making even the most intricate aspects of property investment accessible and easy to understand.Highly recommended!
October 5, 2023
Straight to the points
The content of this book are valuable. Being a host for 5 years I still learnt a lot from the book! Recommended to all hosts.
The content of this book are valuable. Being a host for 5 years I still learnt a lot from the book! Recommended to all hosts.
July 20, 2025
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