Kim Fitzpatrick Interview OFC

Jae Seok An32min

Delia

00:01

Welcome back to another episode of Into The Airbnb, where we talk with Airbnb hosts about their short-term rental experience. Today's guest is Kim Fitzpatrick from Portland, Oregon, who manages five listings located in Portland, Destin, Florida, Blue Ridge, Georgia, in Sevierville, Tennessee. Today, Kim will share with us about her journey and experience as an Airbnb host and also about her experience doing remote hosting. This episode is sponsored by Airbtics, the only one analytics dashboard for short-term rental investors, managers, where you can find precise Airbnb data such as occupancy rate, revenue, average daily rate and so on. So, without further ado, let's get into it! Can you tell us how did you get started on Airbnb?

Kim Fitzpatrick

00:58

I got started on Airbnb as a house hacker, so I rented out space in my personal house while I lived there.

Delia

01:10

Good and how much time did you spend on that before you started with whole listings?

Kim Fitzpatrick

01:19

I probably did that for about a couple of months before I looked for a new rental property. I would say it was close to nine months before I purchased the next rental property which was in Portland, Oregon. It was a condo really near to where I lived. So yeah, I knew after a couple months of doing it as house hacking that I wanted to venture out into doing it bigger and better and outside of my residence.

Delia

01:52

Great. And how was your experience with house hacking? Is it a good way to start?

Kim Fitzpatrick

01:59

I've really loved starting that way because I feel like you get to know your guests, you actually meet them and you can talk to them and get more feedback than you may otherwise get. You get a feel for what they want, how they come and go and just sort of how they live in your space. And that's different when it's one person renting a room versus a whole family coming in and living as a family and going everywhere throughout the house. But it was good to talk to guests and some of them were more experienced on the platform than I was and so they would give me great feedback on how to improve or they would tell me I was doing a great job or what they liked, comparing mine to other states they've had. So it was really good information.

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