Hey everyone, curious about pros/cons and profitability of renting out a unit long term vs AirBnB. Let’s say it’s a condo downtown in a big city, how do you figure out what’s the better option?

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Do your research on local restrictions on short term rentals. I looked into Airbnb’s as an investment option (seaside locations) and many are now limiting short term stays and/or adding short term taxes.

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For us it was an easy decision to do STR. It’s a vacation rental and while summer is week to week I looked into what we should do for off season.
In the off season / winter I could get maybe $3,500/mo for LTR, but through STR I could do $10k. Plus with eviction moratoriums it would make me nervous to rent over 30 days.

In this market, STR all the way if it is allowed.

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