Vetting your Vacation Rental Guests for Success
Preserving Property Value on your Short-Term Rental for years to Come
Not all short-term rental guests are created equal–take it from Grace, a real estate investor and short-term rental owner in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Grace has learned from her own research that keeping her vacation rental filled with high-quality guests will give her the best chance of preserving her property value long-term. However, she’s unsure about how to vet guests herself, and isn’t convinced she should trust the process to someone who doesn’t know what’s best for her property.
A lot of homeowners, like Grace, have learned that guest vetting will help preserve the state of their property and its value for longer. But without the means to vet everyone yourself, how do you ensure that you’re screening out low-quality guests?
Why Guest Vetting is Important
No matter how careful you are with who you allow to stay at your vacation rental, bad guests will always slip through the cracks–that’s why having a guest verification process is so important.
At LocalVR, we implement a multi-step process for guest verification that to seal up all of the cracks that bad guests can slip through. Our strategy helps us to verify that each guest is of the highest quality while also making certain to catch any damages before they worsen. An approach like this is important because it not only helps to screen out the bad apples and scammers, it also preserves and protects the value of each and every property under our care.
Make Guest Vetting Look Easy
Unfortunately, Grace’s story took a turn for the worse. After a month of disastrous stays at her beautiful rental property, she is faced with the reality of not screening out low-quality guests: damages, parties, and noise complaints abound.
Not wanting to invoke the ill will of her neighbors or accrue damage in a property she invested so much in, Grace figured it was time to find a solution to her guest-vetting problem.
That’s where LocalVR came in. We’ve worked hard to create a strategy that helps us to weed out the bad apples. Every step of the process is overseen by a real person to ensure that nothing will be missed. Our process for guest vetting covers a wide range of checks for guests to pass, including:
Age Requirements
Guests must be over the age of 25 to stay at LocalVR’s properties
1 Positive Review
Guests must have at least one positive review on the platform in order to book with LocalVR
Verifiable ID
When a property is rented, the guest must pass ID verification in order to book their stay
House Rules
Guests must agree to house rules in order to book with LocalVR property owners
Screening Questions
Guests must answer a few basic screening questions about their plans for their stay
Post-Checkout Inspections
After every guest stay, LocalVR’s ground operations team uses custom software to inspect each area of the home for damages, missing items, or issues that arose from the stay
Together, all of these vetting and inspection procedures prevent bad guests from slipping through the cracks. In tandem, our strategy allows property owners to preserve the value of their short-term rentals for years to come by not only preventing issues from arising, but also catching any signs of damage right when they occur with our custom inspection software.
Guest Vetting for Success
No matter how you go about it, vetting your guests is vital to ensuring long-term success in the short-term rental industry, and LocalVR has come up with a proven strategy for taking care of guest verification that covers all the bases.
For Grace, our vetting process made the difference that she was looking for. No longer did she have to deal with wild guests and their party antics–instead, she found a solution that gave her back time and helped to preserve the value of her property for years to come.