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The New Host Checklist
Everything to get right before your first guest, so you don't learn it the hard way. Free, from someone who spent 3+ years inside Airbnb's own resolutions team.
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Good. Here's how to start without the rookie mistakes.
Most of what costs a new host their first few months isn't a guest problem — it's not knowing something small until it's already cost you a booking, a review, or weeks of a slower start than you needed.
This checklist is everything to get right before your first guest. Work through it below, in order or by section — it's yours either way.
Everything to get right before your first guest. Tap a question to open it.
WHAT COMES NEXT
This checklist gets you started. It doesn't cover what happens when a guest complains.
At some point — maybe week two, maybe month three — a guest is going to push back on something, and this checklist won't tell you what to say. Most hosts freeze right there, because nothing prepared them for that exact moment.
The Host Insider is a $27 dashboard built from 3,000+ real Airbnb disputes I mediated from inside Airbnb's own resolutions team — exactly how to position yourself so a complaint doesn't turn into a lost review or a lost payout.