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Post by Sonia on Oct 26, 2015 18:55:17 GMT
Hello:
I have listed my property 5 days ago and have no experience as a host.
I got a message asking if I could rent the house for a weekend to celebrate a wedding.
Should I change the day pricing?...get a higher guarantee?
I am not sure how to do this: the bride family will stay at my property and the party will be held at the garden with 90 guests.
Thank you!
Regards,
Sonia
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Post by High Priestess on Oct 26, 2015 22:43:31 GMT
Sonia, I would VERY VERY STRONGLY urge that you absolutely DO NOT accept a wedding at your house when you have no experience as a host!! This is a recipe for disaster. If you are even asking if you should charge higher than the normal nightly rate, you are looking like a squirrel on the railroad tracks, with a steam engine barreling towards you, about to get mightily railroaded. The going rate for weddings at a private home is VASTLY higher than a nightly rate!! Perhaps 100 times as high. There is potential for quite serious, and I mean very serious problems. Please read more on this forum and feel free to ask questions, and definitely get some experience as a host before you even consider a wedding! Most hosts will NOT consider having a wedding at their home, even with years of experience being hosts! The potential for damage, excessive noise, complaints by neighbors, intoxication, parking problems and complaints by neighbors about those, and ending up having 90 people actually trying to sleep in your home (those renting for parties often lie -- you just cannot trust guests to stick to what they agree to!), and much more.
It must also be pointed out, that those who seek to hold parties at hosts' homes, tend to pick out the new unexperienced hosts, who are too naive or inexperienced to know to say NOOOOOO!
We regular forum members have seen this again and again and again. It's not the experienced hosts with the strong house rules who get asked if they will allow a wedding at their home, it's the newbies who have never hosted yet, and have no idea of the problems they could be stepping into.
You MIGHT wish to consider allowing weddings once you get a lot more experience -- but realize that the fair price to have a wedding at ones' house for 90 guests, is in the range of $5000 to $10,000 a night. Again, If you are even asking if you should charge more for a wedding you are clearly not even ready to consider doing this.
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Post by Clare on Oct 26, 2015 23:41:57 GMT
Sonia, heed Deborah's advice! Don't do it!
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Post by fleur on Oct 27, 2015 11:31:52 GMT
90 x poo, 370 x pee on average (3 pees each) yeah nothing will go wrong......
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Post by curly on Feb 9, 2016 3:16:33 GMT
I have a similar situation. They did not book for a wedding, but they are going to be in Cape Cod(traveling from oversees)for their son's wedding and making a vacation out of it. Fine with me so far . . . . So I accepted the request. However, when I checked out his profile, I noticed that they had 7 wish list houses from the same area. What should I make of this?
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Post by High Priestess on Feb 9, 2016 3:25:47 GMT
YOu mean what to make of the fact that they have several area homes on their wish list? Probably they were using the wish list to keep track of places where they wanted to send an inquiry. Putting them on one's wish list is an easy way to find them again.
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Post by mbishara on Feb 9, 2016 22:23:03 GMT
I would also add another point. My vacation rental is in Pompano Beach and I won't rent to anyone from South Florida because they're looking for a "party house". We always get lots of requests for one or two night bookings on new year's eve, Halloween and stuff like that. I won't let them come near my house. No parties. Period.
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Post by High Priestess on Feb 9, 2016 23:13:14 GMT
I think that is very smart, mbishara. It's a pretty clear sign of someone wanting a party when you get a group of locals wanting to rent your place. Best to avoid that. I do rent to locals but not to more than one at a time, and I want to know why a local person is looking for a short term rental. There are some good reasons for that, which I accept, but there are also some not so good reasons.
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Post by mbishara on Feb 10, 2016 4:08:19 GMT
Another quick thing to look for is the age of the person responsible for the rental contract. I won't even look at any one under 25 years old, especially during March break and the 4th of July weekend. And especially when I see that it's a group of seven or eight people not from the same family.
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Post by mbishara on Feb 10, 2016 4:09:00 GMT
Much as I would love to rent my house, the potential damage and neighborhood trouble just isn't worth it.
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Post by High Priestess on Feb 10, 2016 4:12:27 GMT
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