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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.
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!
You can reach out to them, sometimes they will rent it directly and waive a cleaning fee or Airbnb fees
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
*mortgage, not rent
Awesome - thanks all! Doubting they’ll come down more than $500/mo but going to try.