Excuse me! 🙋♀️ How do you keep your units up to par?
No time to read the whole thing? Listen to it here. You’ll miss the giphs and the jokes though…
WELL I’LL TELL YOU HOW 💁♂️
IT’S A CHECKLIST. PRETTY SIMPLE, RIGHT?
It’s astonishingly easy and hard at the same time. I just wanted a place to put that gif in…
Remember this:
“Nothing is ever as easy as they say it is, but, it’s also not as hard. So strive for the middle”
Maybe it was more of you’re never as good as they say you are, but, also not as bad either so aim for somewhere in the middle of that. This truism is what’s driving this blog, this venture and life.
So now for the meat and potatoes of the post. The industry is getting more and more refined and technical. This means that you as a host, landlord/operator or manager have to be constantly evolving and honing your craft.
Ok, so now, How do you do that?
Frankly, nobody knows what next step you need to take to reach the next level of your craft. That is something that gets revealed in hindsight after you’ve done it. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t make calculated decisions on which direction to take. Even though the market is who will ultimately tell you if you’re right or wrong you must go ahead and take a step for it to tell you if it was the right one.
Now one of the aspects of leveling up is having top-notch inventory, and your inventory is your unit, units, complex, hotel, whichever. That’s the reason a quality assessment is needed so that you can be sure nothing will go wrong with your rentals or if something is wrong you can catch it early on and address it even before it becomes an issue to your guest.
I’ve given you a template you can use for a one-bedroom apartment down below. This checklist is constructed and meant to be done on each checkout/turnover to make sure no damages were sustained during the reservation, and things are ready to host a new guest. We use a similar one for our listings and it ensures that we have no problems 99% of the time.
You can go ahead and create one (re-do it in your doc processor) using this as a template since the editable one is reserved for course takers.
-Gian from Hostpitality
