
Airbnb house rules: the nine you do not need to write
Airbnb already defines nine standard house rules and shows them to guests four times before arrival. What is left to write is smaller, and more specific.
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Ideas, templates and best practices to make your guests feel at home — and your reviews show it.

Airbnb already defines nine standard house rules and shows them to guests four times before arrival. What is left to write is smaller, and more specific.

Most hosting advice is a list of sixteen things. Airbnb measures four numbers, and only some of that advice moves any of them. Here is which.

A welcome book template you can copy, what belongs in each section, the nine house rules Airbnb already standardises, and the safety page most hosts skip.

A good guide answers before anyone asks. The structure, tone and order that stop guests from texting you about the wifi password.

We measured which parts of the manual people open in real guides. Check-in and wifi tie for first, and the rest tells you what to write first.

Lockbox, smart lock or digital guide: what each one actually solves, what it costs, and what to do when the code fails at midnight.