Facebook Links for Homesharing and Vacation Rental Hosts
This list is a curated collection of valuable Facebook links. Email us if you have recommendations to add or corrections.
The Host2Host organization sprang from the Portland, Oregon host community with its multifaceted needs. Uniting our voices, our skills and our neighborhoods, we connect hosts with resources, and offer a unified advocacy voice to speak with policy makers, media and others who impact our businesses.
Founded by Debi Hertert, of Hosting your Home Podcast, this community is about sharing resources, best hosting practices and lessons learned. Our goal is to help each other become our best in business and in life!
New To Short Term Rentals, Airbnb, and Hosting
Founded by Alanna Schroeder and Tyann Marcink, this group was created to allow new short term rental owners and hosts a safe place to ask questions, share successes and brainstorm challenges with real time feedback from seasoned hosts.
Founded by Vincent Carson - Striving to provide Airbnb hosts with better insights into their listings and the cities in which they operate in using a data driven approach. (permission requested)
Vacation Rental & Airbnb Investors
Founded by Erica Muller, this group is for those who are investing in properties specifically to use as a vacation rental or Airbnb property anywhere in the world. This group focuses on the investment side of the transaction (buying and selling).
Paul Hart. We are a wonderful collection of Airbnb Hosts from all over the world... some might say of the highest distinction! Airbnb's Finest Hosts is a Facebook Community welcoming friendly hosts from across the globe. Share ideas and discuss creative ways in being a better Host.
A community of Smartbnb users, exchanging tips, help, and giving feedback!
Evelyn Badia. This Facebook group is here to support you, get your questions answered, and chat all about Vacation Rentals including Airbnb, VRBO, Flipkey and all of the other platforms as well.
Founded by Eric Moeller, this is an educational hub where like-minded hosts, investors, real estate professionals, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and everyone in between can come for support, education and brainstorming in building their Airbnb (STR) businesses! (permission requested)
This is a CLOSED group available only to Vacation Rental owners and managers to discuss VR issues, learn from each other and discuss ways to gain independence from listing sites like VRBO.
Short Term Rental Industry News and Events
Founded by Alanna Schroeder and Tyann Marcink, this group was recently created to share industry news and events. The group was founded in September 2017.
Becky Buccoli Pelletier. This is a group for ACTIVE Airbnb Hosts and Superhosts looking for support, help and information to help you on your journey. It's a group for fun and socializing. To keep this groups content and activities relevant and tailored, it is for members who HOST in the following locations. Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada.
Founded by Dorian Hill. This group is for AIRBNB Hosts to share thoughts, ideas, resources, experiences, etc. about AIRBNB Hosting.
Owners Only - Vacation Rental Owners Happy Hour
Founded by Kristine Fowler Sapp. Welcome to Owners Only - Vacation Rental Owners Happy Hour! This page is designed to provide Vacation Rental Owners a place to share vent, laugh, cry, share ideas, ask questions, find solutions, discuss maintenance, guest issues, management company referrals, brainstorm, etc.
Started by Dee Walton. This is a FaceBook place to let Airbnb hosts and other Short Term Rental Hosts know about the forum for hosts at www.globalhostingforum.com
Alternatives to VRBO, Homeaway, Airbnb
Begun by Jamey Harmon. This group do not allow any posts or comments relating back to vacation listing sites that request service fees (vrbo, airbnb, homeaway, etc.) Any posts or comments that are linked to these sites will be deleted. We represent www.a1vacationhomes.com a No Service/Booking FEE vacation rental website with over 15,000 properties for worldwide travelers and owners.
Started by Andy Thoms. Airbnb Homes For Sale is a marketplace to buy, sell, Airbnb homes worldwide.
Airbnb Property Owners is a group that unites the airbnb property owners to discuss issues, tips and in general argument the position of owners and push for changes and upgrades of functions on Airbnb. (we are not affiliated with Airbnb).
This is a group dedicated to sharing experiences with Airbnb hosting. Feel free to post experiences on other short stay platforms as well. Lets grow, learn and improve together!
An Airbnb self directed guide to happy hosting - creating style & sharing ideas, follow us as we share our journey from construction to booking with this almost 100 year old home and carriage house / let's exchange ideas on guest services, business management, construction and design, decorating styles, cooking and gardening & much much more.
Airbnb Social Justice and Disability
Airbnb Social Justice Disability is a new facebook group that has been set up for host and guest to discuss social justice & access issues in airbnb listings, to find each other and to network on the issues of access. Access includes features not currently available on the airbnb site, in addition to ambulatory issues, such as fragrance free, communication, fluorescent lighting, invisible DISabilities, ongoing and chronic health conditions, stigmatized features and conditions and neurodiversity, etc.
Begun by Antonio Bortolotti. A yearly conference for owners and managers. Open to all and held in Europe. If you haven't attended VRWS, you're welcome to join the group. This is the place for VRWS Attendees to ask questions, seek help, share thoughts, give feedback and support fellow peers.
Welcome Airbnb hosts, we aim to make a better floor plan for airbnb hosts. We want guests and hosts to communicate seamlessly! Why waste time on explaining with endless sentences? Simply put a floor plan to tell your guest what your place is made out of! All we ask in return is your feedback on the floor plan and how to make it better! Thanks.
Snowbirds and Summer Vacations
The Snowbirds & Summerbirds Vacation Rentals group is for independent homeowners who wish to list their properties for short or long term vacation rentals.
Airbnb News is a group exclusively for sharing news and updates related to Airbnb.