Lucky Pete

You can set the minimum amount of time a booking can be made.

Clearly state the house rules re numbers and that additional fees will be levied if more than those booked stay. If that is the case then charge their credit card that fee.

We charge our guests 100% of the tariff at booking or 60 days out, which ever is earliest.

During check in we have them sign a small set of rules that clearly states no additional guests nor non guests visiting. That seems to work pretty well for us.

Our current TVs use a USB style wifi set up but our next ones will be smart TVs running Netflix. When we built we ran LAN cable to the TV sockets but that was a waste of money.

One thing our guests really do like is that we also ran HDMI cables from the TV through the wall to another spot in the lounge. They are able to connect their own devices to the large screens and watch that day's GoPro footage etc.

Our apartments are not cheap and guests can stay up to 2 weeks so we look at little extras like board games (monopoly) and cars like Uno go a long way as do really nice books.

We are also looking at doing some in-house dining this winter where we would deliver food cooked in our kitchen straight to them further increase our revenues. Will be interesting to see how that goes :)

For us its obviously changed each time a guest leaves then only after 7 days or on request.

We have a set of house rules that guests must sign before we check them in. This seems to help.

We set one day in the year very low for all 4 our apartments that way we appear much cheaper than our competitors when they search. When they put in their dates the actual rates apply for that period.

We use Lodgify as a channel manager but you can also sync calendars. If you end up with a double booking you have limited options as you can not cancel the booking.com one. In that case you can either cancel the AirBnB one or have to find the booking.com booking another compatible place which can be a PITA and rather stressful :( .