My Airbnb made me $2,300 a month and was almost always booked. Nightmare guests made me quit hosting.

"We purchased our property from a family member who was already doing Airbnb. The owners enjoyed it and were pretty successful at it. They made us quite a deal on the property, so we decided to go ahead and just keep it as an Airbnb. It's a small single-family home. It was built in 1910 as the original home on the property while the family was having the main house built."

"It's really close to the back of the main house. If I were in my home office and there were people in the living room of the Airbnb, I would be able to tell you what they looked like, so it's a little bit awkward to be like a traditional rental. So we thought Airbnb, with people who were here short-term coming and going, would be a really great way to give us a little bit of extra money."

"It has three bedrooms, one-and-a-half bathrooms, and probably about 1,300 square feet. It has a full kitchen, washer, and dryer. It's located on our six-acre property, so people have full use of the trails and the woods, and we've got a little stream, and they can feed the fish in the koi pond. We are within 20 minutes of four or five different colleges. We're 15 minutes to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base."

The property was purchased from a family member who had been operating it as an Airbnb, and the previous owners' success led to keeping it as a rental. The small single-family home, built in 1910, sits near the main house, creating proximity that makes it less like a traditional rental. The three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house has a full kitchen, washer and dryer, and sits on six acres with trails, woods, a stream and a koi pond. The location is within 20 minutes of multiple colleges and 15 minutes of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, producing frequent bookings for family visits, military PCSes and college events, leaving most weekends booked from March through December.

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