Why HouseStay Makes The Perfect Channel Partner
As a property manager or landlord with multiple property investments, finding the right OTAs to list your short term furnished rentals on and successfully manage is, by no means a simple task. Because your portfolio of properties can be so fragmented, staying on top of communication with prospective tenants and making sure that you are filling vacancies can feel near impossible, especially with the state of OTAs today. However, there's a channel partner out there dedicated to streamlining the listing process for you. If you have a host of short term rental listings that you need support with, here are a few key reasons why HouseStay would make the perfect channel partner for you.
We offer iCal integration to help you stay on top of all your booking requests.
If you're using multiple OTAs to manage your properties, you may find it difficult to track all booking requests being submitted by renters, which can result in missed opportunities if you don't respond to potential tenants seeking furnished apartments, quickly enough. Rather than continue to operate your month to month rental listings in this way, you can use HouseStay's iCal integration to sync your listing’s calendar on our platform with calendars on other rental sites so that you never miss a booking, no matter which channels you're using.
You may be asking yourself, of course, whether it's as difficult to integrate with HouseStay as it is with other channels. Absolutely not! HouseStay is dedicated to making it easy to list and track your month to month rentals, which means that the integration process is as seamless as our hosting and booking platform. If you're tired of the barriers to integration that you experience on other platforms, HouseStay will be the best channel partner for you.
We make your inventory available for short term and long term rentals.
Property managers face a unique set of challenges when listing their short term rental apartments on various furnished rental websites. If you're only looking to list short term rentals, you're limited to platforms like Airbnb, Expedia, and VRBO, which place a greater emphasis on travelers who only need a place to stay a week or less. If you're looking to rent out your property to prospective renters for longer stays, you're limited to rental companies like Zillow, Zumper, Trulia, RentHop, PadMapper, StreetEasy, Apartments.com, or Apartmentfinder.com, all of which will require you to post your properties for long-term lease agreements.
HouseStay seamlessly blends the two rental models to open up your inventory longer term stays with a month to month rentals agreement that you'd typically only find on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace (where scammers abound, and tenants are unlikely to search for rentals). In fact, the average stay on HouseStay is over 90 nights or more. If you value flexibility but can't seem to find a channel partner that will allow you to merge the two rental models together, HouseStay is here to help you achieve your goals.
HouseStay attracts high-quality tenants who will take care of your properties.
One of the biggest challenges for many furnished rental websites is that you can't always ensure the quality of your renters or their roommates, which can lead to issues like damaged property or people trying to sublet your rental to others. HouseStay focuses on ensuring that hosts are protected by tenant verification and screening tools, on our platform, which allows for a pleasant experience for both parties. Additionally, many other aspects of our platform tend to be the driving reason why we're approached by so many high-quality users. The benefits that compel high-quality tenants to book their furnished rental homes on HouseStay include:
Thoroughly vetted month to month rental apartments and homes in locations across the U.S., like Furnished Apartments in New York City, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco. All properties undergo a HouseStay inspection to guarantee that they meet our expectations and offer everything that they advertise.
A fully automated booking process so that no party has to worry about trying to communicate outside of HouseStay or deal with any complicated paperwork.
Extensive listing information on our search results page to make sure properties meet our tenant's search criteria, including a transparent rental price, a description of the building type (condos, single-family homes, apartment buildings, and more), and a floor plan. Seeing the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and even a 3D tour helps users get a feel for the space from anywhere in the world. Also, a detailed description of amenities (air-conditioning, washer and dryer, utilities, and more) and an interactive map to see what is in close proximity to the neighborhood where the listing is located help a prospective tenant fully understand what the rental property offers.
Only fully furnished homes for rent, which are entire accommodations are available on our platform, whether they are furnished apartment listings or entire furnished homes.
Because of these qualities, we've become the best rental listing site for a wide variety of tenants including corporate housing, interns and traveling students, and families in need of relocation. If you want a channel partner who offers you high-quality tenants who need access to longer stays and will truly value what you have to offer, HouseStay is the perfect place to integrate your listings.
We allow you to engage in revenue management and increase occupancy during off-seasons.
One of the major drawbacks of most listing sites today is that stellar listings across the United States will only be popular while people are looking to reserve vacation spots for the best deal. Once this pool of renters dries up, you may end up with vacancies for months at a time. Additionally, some prices may be so high in certain neighborhoods that it may drive renters since these new listings are not in their price range. Here at HouseStay, some of the biggest perks you'll experience are the ability to engage revenue management and a greater potential to improve your occupancy when you find your furnished rental properties are being hit the hardest. This way, you not only have flexible lease terms that give renters the freedom they want when they move to a new city, but you also get the freedom to set fair rental prices based on factors like the median rent in an area and what may be considered a good deal for a rental apartment. If you've been trying to rent your properties out to no avail, see what HouseStay can do for you.
You won't be able to find other OTA's that offer stays for 30 nights or more.
The majority of platforms focus on very short stay rentals. If a prospective renter wants to stay for longer, they have to make their dollar stretch to book more nights as these platforms are more similar in nature to hotels than to temporary housing options. HouseStay is designed to offer only a minimum of 30 nights, putting no maximum on the length of stay so that renters can stay as long as they need to, a quality you won't find anywhere else. This aspect of the platform is one more reason why HouseStay is popular among both our landlords and our tenants.
Make HouseStay your go-to listing platform for all of your properties.
As you can see from the above, making the decision to make HouseStay your channel partner is a great way to attract and retain high-quality longer-term tenants, seamlessly manage booking requests (and collect the security deposit and rent payments with ease), and avoid common listing errors such as duplicate listings, missed opportunities, and inefficient management processes. All of this comes without having to take any extra steps to remedy these problems on your own. If you're ready to get started with the best website for your listing needs, create an account now to list your short term rental apartments as a landlord, property manager, or more.
