Setting up Houfy

What is Houfy? Houfy is a listing site that does not charge fees. You can actually very easily import your Airbnb and VRBO listing straight into Houfy. Your guests connect directly with you. You are in control of your calendar, pricing, rules and how to connect with guests.

Things you can do with Houfy.

Set up price per night, per week, per month. You can charge more for Weekend nights.

Set up minimum and maximum stay.

Charge an extra guest fee.

Collect taxes.

Collect a Security (damage) deposit. and you can collect it prior to their check in. We set ours to $1000.00 and 3 days before check-in.

Determine Damage Policy This is what we used. “The Tenants shall maintain the premises in a good, clean, and ready to rent condition, and use the premises only in a careful and lawful manner. The tenants shall leave the premises in a ready to rent condition at the expiration of the rental agreement, defined by the Landlord as being immediately habitable by the next tenants. Tenants shall pay for maintenance and repairs should the premises be left in a lesser condition. The tenants agree that the Landlord shall deduct costs of said services from the security deposit prior to refund if tenants cause damage to the premises or its furnishings. Deposit will be refunded if property is in good shape upon inspection or 7 days, whichever is sooner. “

You can dictate if your place is pet friendly.

You can charge cleaning fee.

You can add optional fee. We added an optional Linen fee.

You can add an custom link. ours is https://houfy.com/h/liddlelakehouse

You can import calendars!! This is crucial. We imported our Airbnb calendar into Houfy. So we will not cross rent. You need to import Houfy calendar into other platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO

You can set up check in and check out times.

You can show your check in instructions.

You can add a guest manual

You can upload your Rental Agreement.

You can create your own website for free. Then you link to that site in your Social Media. Here is our link. https://lake-gaston-home-rental-sleeps-16-dock-firepit-fireplaces.houfy.com Notice you can change the link info to make it easier to search. I put in lake-gaston-home-rental as I believe people will search for tha.

Huge bonus: If you are using Pricelabs, you can add Houfy to Pricelabs. Go to Houfy > Privacy & Settings > API Access Token. Copy/Past that into Pricelabs

When someone wants to rent, you get to approve or deny their request, you can ask them questions.

If you want to use Houfy, click here to sign up.

Author: Bobl

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