Airbnb in between homes, anyones experience?

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Anyone tell their experience with airbnb when in between homes. We hopefully are exchanging tommorrow, the chain have given us a 4 weeks to get temp accomodation as we agreed to break the chain. We have found a house that is chain free so it looks like we will be in airbnb for maybe 6 weeks. Ive packed but trying to pack for storage and airbnb is a nightmare. Aswell as deciding what to keep for storage and what to rid.

Take very little to the air B&B.
Pack the rest of your belongings for a full move. Only you can decide what’s charity/selling/tipping.

Why is airBnB a nightmare?

Pack everything away now that you can live without until mid December, then list all the items that will be in airBnb & you won't need there either so wlll pack up closer to moving day.

I don't think it's rocket science. You'll have access to your storage unit anyway, right?

@lljkk may seem easy but when you are packing up at 5 bed house and having to accomodate teen and dogs, trying to plan for weather, jobs, school kits, hobbies, after school stuff, without havimg to take it all to airbnb, everyone has a list of what they want to take, then thinking about valuables that i dont want in storage just in case. Its overwhelming. Plus im post surgery. Not so simple as just pack a bag and go. I wish.

Not quite the same, but I have gone into a studio rental before buying, from a 3 bed house. I was brutal about getting rid of stuff, and got my home contents down to one storage units worth, to keep the cost down. It’s not a storage unit you can visit to get stuff out of.

I took with me winter clothes, a couple of cooking things, my cat and all her stuff, paperwork, bedding, desk and chair as I work from home, rugs, some small ornaments so the place would feel more homely, toiletries. More difficult for you as you are a family but it’s got to be just basics that go with you unless you’re renting a huge airbnb.

And just to add, yes it was overwhelming. Get the airbnb at least a week before completion, and start moving the stuff you need over there, so it is out of the way. As you start getting your stuff in there you realise what else you need and what you can live without.

Yes, I did AirBnB. If you haven’t actually exchanged on your purchase, be aware that there’s a risk that it could be more than six weeks. My vendor was reluctant to agree a completion date (matrimonial split) and in fact I had to leave the AirBnB as she had a long-standing booking after I’d been there for six weeks. (I went to stay with a friend).

I was on my own, no kids or dogs so a bit easier. Take work things, winter clothes ‘cos it’ll be November by the time you move, any kitchen essentials that might not be in the AirBnB (coffee machine, favourite kitchen knives, anything else). Games/electronics, stuff to make life familiar and comfortable but just be prepared for six weeks of slightly frustrating/irritating times.

if your stuff is being packed and stored by a removal firm, no you won’t necessarily have access to it during that time, it’s not like having a self-store facility.

Good luck

We did and yes, the preparation was tricky. But worth it for the right house - ours was about 5 weeks, also with family, pets and all that which made finding an Airbnb trickier. Fortunately the Airbnb landlord could not have been more helpful - from upgrading to super fast internet as I needed to work, to presents for the little ones, to helping us find some items cheaply that had got put in storage. I wouldn’t want to miss the experience, they were just so so nice and helped us settle into the new area. But I bet at this point it will just seem a huge mountain to climb. Good luck!

I did it for 2 weeks between selling and buying and also for 6 months during a renovation. Main issue beyond a couple of weeks is that it’s impossible to have everything you need and there’s always something that’s in storage that you want/ need, like a sleeping bag for a school trip or something. Other than that it’s quite a nice mental break from property ownership.

Have any of you ever let your buyer move into your sale property, that they are buying,earlier than completion and rent it for a few months while it completes?

Thanks everyone, I think im just stressed as we exchange today on our sale. Sat down last night and was making lists of what we do and dont need. I've moved many times but this move has been the hardest. @AllJoyAndNoFunyes im just looking forward to actually cooking a meal because our stuff is in boxes. @Pepperamagosh that sounds like a lovely experience. Tbh the airbnb we have seen has alot of stuff. So its helping especially as my son wants to take his huge TV.
@RockinCaraive heard people do that and my husband did ask the estate agent. However he said no because people move in, find they dont like it for some reason and pull out of the sale. Tbh I felt this is too messy. When selling/purchasing its best to keep some distance. If problems flag up, you dont want to be living in it as well. It can cause all sorts of problems. Id steer clear of that. The process is stressful enough. The only time id entertain it is if it was your own home. I sold my first house to a landlord and there was an issue with the purchase, he said I could rent my own home as a stop gap for a week but in the end I went to my parents.

The recipe of what to do (unless you hire a professional) is the same whether you're 1 or 8. Pack away all that you can live without until a month after moving date. Identify things you can't live without. Scrutinise the remainder.

When we moved into rental for 6m between selling & buying (rental not Airbnb), all hardwood floors but carpet on stairs & one rug in front room... we realised we'd left our vacuum cleaner elsewhere, but we needed a VC. We went out & bought a replacement and had 2 VCs for a long time when we finally got into our purchased home. Embrace practical solutions.

@lljkk certainly you can buy your way out of problems but the money has to be there to do it in the first place. Its just trying to plan for everyone's whims when you've been plunged into surgical menopause. Not every situation is cut and dry.

Right so basically I would pack for 12 weeks to give yourself some slack on the time to complete this next house. As it's an Airbnb that simplifies it a lot as you just need personal stuff - no kitchen implements, just take your store cupboard stuff). You wont need linen but agree with them that they'll do a weekly/ fortnightly linen and towel exchange- they should agree to this as still much easier than having t o do a full turnover. Pack winter clothes and just have less stuff. Is there a tumble drier as if not might want to take own drying racks/ dehumidifiers if you already have. Stuff I took when we moved out for 6 months - this is just food for thought- your place might not need this stuff or care about it.

• coffee machine
• soda stream
• dehumidifier
• 2 decent knives and my own corkscrew
• my own tea mug
• heated drying rack
• stick hoover and charger
• my houseplants
• speaker and radio
• air fryer
• washing baskets x 2 and washing hamper for dirty laundry.

HTH

and my iron!

Under no circumstances should you ever do this. If they rent the property from you, you risk that they become tenants, with all of the rights that this entails.

And obviously, they could rent from you for a few months and then pull out of the sale or put you under pressure to lower the price, particularly if you would face issues getting them to move out.