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#139 Would You Buy a Sofa-bed?

2026-11-0415:48

Would you invest £1,000 in a sofa bed if you knew it could generate £50,000 in revenue? It's a question I regularly ask audiences when speaking about Airbnb hosting. But this week, I've found myself putting that principle into practice all over again! With every bedroom occupied, my neighbours fully booked, and guests wanting to extend their stays, I've run out of beds — but not ideas! My solution involves replacing a 60-year-old settee, buying a new sofa bed, several metres of blackout fabri...

#138 — Airbnb's Dirty Dishes: Have We Lost Our Common Sense?

2026-10-2817:51

Episode 138 — Airbnb's Dirty Dishes: Have We Lost Our Common Sense? Should Airbnb guests be expected to wash their own dishes? Or has common courtesy become an unreasonable house rule? Airbnb's latest changes to its house rules have sparked a storm in a washing-up bowl! From 20 November 2026, Airbnb's updated policy generally prevents hosts from requiring guests to wash and put away the dishes and cookware they've used. Hosts can ask guests to put dirty dishes in the sink, but washing-up can ...

#137. What Your House Is Trying to Tell You

2026-10-2016:11

Can your house tell you what's going on without you seeing a thing? After eleven years of welcoming strangers into my home, I've developed something rather like a sixth sense. I can often tell who's arrived, who's gone out, which rooms are occupied and even when something isn't quite right — without seeing anybody! But when I recently started training a new helper, I discovered that what has become second nature to me isn't necessarily obvious to somebody else. And that's when I realised that...

#136. Does anything ever get broken?

2026-10-1316:36

Episode 136 – Does Anything Ever Get Broken?What happens when your Airbnb guests break something? And what if the thing they break is actually your way of thinking? After eleven years of hosting and around 19,000 guest-nights, I've come to accept that things occasionally get broken. It's part of welcoming strangers into a working home. But when a mysterious broken fridge door turns up with a vital piece missing, I'm left wondering whether someone has been covering their tracks! That little in...

#135 Get rid of what you don't want to make room for what you do want

2026-10-0716:51

Get rid of what you don’t want to make room for what you do want. What does throwing away a 60-year-old armchair have to do with making more than £300 from Airbnb the very next day? Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this episode, I explore something I first learned many years ago called the Principle of Vacuum: Get rid of what you don't want to make room for what you do want. It's a principle that has followed me throughout my Airbnb journey — sometimes without me even realising it. I share ho...

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