Are Airbnb owners negotiating on price? I’m looking for a UWS spot for ~3 months and wondering if I have any negotiating power (nothing egregious since I know they have to pay rent, but I’m a grad student so every bit helps)

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Suggest messaging the host asking if they’d be open to a long term rental off the site. That’ll at least get rid of the Airbnb service fee and then you can go from there.

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What I’ve done in the past is book a week at the place to make sure I like it, then asking them (via text, circumventing Airbnb) if they’d be willing to do a longer term rental with me. That gets rid of the Airbnb fees and they came down on the rent a bit as well. I also paid cash and think part of the discount was for that (this was in small town Europe, though. - might be weirder to pay cash for an UWS rental).

Sorry if you already know this, but you’re searching the monthly price on Airbnb, right - not just looking at the nightly rate? Most places have built in monthly rental discounts, I’ve seen up to 40%. Sharing bc I didn’t know that when I first started looking!

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You can reach out to them, sometimes they will rent it directly and waive a cleaning fee or Airbnb fees

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A lot of places offer a weekly or monthly discount - if that’s not there you should definitely ask.

Oops edit: I see C1 already gave this advice so just a +1 to that

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*mortgage, not rent

Awesome - thanks all! Doubting they’ll come down more than $500/mo but going to try.

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