When Are Your Guests Most Uncomfortable?

so when are your guests checking in your airbnb most uncomfortable and one other question for you what is the most underrated and often overlooked element of your interior design we're going to answer both those questions this week stay tuned welcome to short-term rental riches where we'll discuss investing in real estate but with a specific focus on short-term rentals to help you build wealth faster with as little headache as possible happier here again as always another week another topic relevant to your short-term rentals and your real

estate and this week i'm going to start off by asking you a couple questions when are your guests most uncomfortable and the second question is what is the most underrated design element or often overlooked element of our designs for short-term rentals the these things are both related all right i'll just give it to you stop beating around the bush here it is our lighting lighting is super duper important and it's actually really easy to incorporate and improve these days there's so many things so that's what

i want to talk about this week because it makes such a big impact a lot of bang for our buck and it also changes the way we feel when we stay in short term rentals it changes our mood you know how it feels to be in a doctor's office and have that super bright white light just beaming down on you versus sitting in a cozy chair next to a lamp with some nice warm tones reflecting off the walls very very different i've kind of jumped way

too far and i wouldn't say way too far but i've really dove an into this arena of lighting and i've learned quite a bit and i want to share that with you guys this week so let's just go ahead and jump right into it i want to start off by by talking about the most important spaces where you should be spending the most amount of time on your lighting or you should be thinking about your lighting the most and this also has to do with when

our guests are most uncomfortable and they're most uncomfortable when they're first showing up to our property but they're even more uncomfortable if they're showing up to it at night in the dark so i would say that the number one most important place for lighting is our exterior lighting our entryway lighting especially if you're in an area that's near other properties and someone's not exactly sure which apartment they're going into or if it's in a complex of some sort then lighting's super super important or if it's

in a nice neighborhood and the entryway isn't the front door or something maybe it's a guest house in the back you want to have super good lighting so that's when our guests are most uncomfortable and it's also because it's the first time being there whatever it is this is when they're most uncomfortable until the moment they step in that door and they realize they have the right door code and they have to write everything of course the better your checking instructions the more of this discomfort

you can alleviate so we've got lots of podcasts on how we can do that but we're going to stick to lighting this time so that's i would say one of the most important areas is our exterior lighting and now you can improve this just by adding some dust to dawn lights so lights that come on and when it starts to get dark and they go off automatically when the sun comes back out great invention uh and they're very easy to add if you already have an

existing light fixture well you can replace one they're not expensive and get them at home depot you get them at lowe's get them off amazon and if you don't want to go through the trouble of changing your light fixture well then you can just change the bulb yeah they sell dust to dawn light bulbs that's super easy just take the bulb out boom pop the new one in and you're good to go of course you want to make sure that the power for that light is

always on because if you have a guess that turns it off well then it's not going to come on even when it turns dusk so they do have some things that you can put over light switches so you don't turn them off you can also just leave a little note on the light switch that says please leave this on all the time so i would say that's one of the most important areas for light and the other is our living area and our bedrooms and it's

super easy to change the lighting of course we can just do this with light bulbs we can change the color i really recommend using a warm tone light bulb not daylight not the the super bright offsea looking one it's 3 000 k i think it's 3 000 kelvin is the lighting system that they use so look for those it's a warm bulb 3000k now better than that is having it on a dimmer and dimmers are super easy to add these days to they're inexpensive 15 20

bucks can have your local handyman swap amount going to make a huge difference that way your guests can control the light that they want really important in the bedroom really important in the living room it sets the mood right if it's too bright uh we're trying to have an intimate dinner or something like that and there's too much light well just just not as good and this is such an easy easy thing to do so our living area and our exterior lights those are super important

also on the exterior i forgot to mention this but you can get those low voltage landscape lighting systems that plug into the wall they're really expensi inexpensive you can get them on amazon for a few hundred bucks literally anyone can do it you plug it into the wall they also can come with a dust to dawn sensor and that really helps for a few hundred bucks the impact that makes shining on your landscaping shining on your trees it really gives it a great feel so there's

lots of options for updating our lighting we've got tons of smart bulbs i don't even want to attempt to list them all because there's so many of these days but i can say that i've used personally the philips hue bulbs the spectrum of color with the philips hue bulbs is incredible i use them all the time and there's some really cool things that come with them so if you're not familiar with the philips hue bulbs they've got them at all your local home depots and lows

and and amazon and they're not super cheap but you got to remember they are led bulbs so they're going to last a really long time and they make a huge impact so some of the cool accessories that come with philippe bulbs are wireless dimmers so if you didn't want to install a new dimmer you can simply change the light bulb in one of your fixtures and a lamp in a pendant light hanging over your kitchen you can change it to a phillips hue bulb and put

a wireless dimmer on the wall that will allow you or your guests to dim the lights so really cool they also sell like sensors and sky's the limit you can set all this up but another thing i like about it is that you can turn them on remotely so you could also set schedules for exterior lights to come on and all types of things so check them out lighting is so important it really is and i feel like a lot of rentals i stand they just

drop the ball when it comes to lighting it's so easy to change a few hundred extra dollars can make a huge impact to your short-term rental which is gonna make a huge impact to how they feel in your space and of course that's gonna lead them to give you a better review so review your lighting if you haven't recently check out some youtube videos on some of the latest smart light technology most of it's readily available and it makes a huge impact and remember these lights

that you're changing they're led they last for years so it's not something that you're going to have to do very often so take a look at that let's spice up our rentals a little bit if we're lacking in this area and until next time have a wonderful day you