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Getting AirBnB-Ready

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After spending many weeks on-and-off at the ranch, we decided it was time to monetize it when we weren't there. Always better if the house can pay its own mortgage, right? We knew when we bought it that we wanted to list it on AirBnB eventually,  but I don't think we had really thought too much about what would be required to get the house ready. Here's a recap of everything we learned, in three simple steps: 1) Furnish to sleep the maximum number of guests In the county of Mariposa, Bed and Breakfasts are allowed to host a maximum of 10 guests. Look up the tourism and hospitality laws in your area to find out what your regulations are, and furnish to sleep as many as possible. I once stayed in a one-bedroom cottage that had been ingeniously engineered to sleep a miraculous ten  people, and you better believe we packed ten of us girls in there for a bachelorette weekend to remember! Keep in mind that your guests are on vacation, just looking for a good time--which do