Banking and Finances for Airbnb Hosts (Ep577 )
Summary
This podcast episode introduces Baselane, a bank designed specifically for short-term rental hosts, offering features like bookkeeping, virtual accounts, and virtual debit cards. Baselane aims to simplify financial management for hosts. Consider exploring Baselane for streamlined bookkeeping and financial tracking.
Key Insights
- •Baselane offers a business checking account specifically tailored for real estate investors and integrates with accounting/bookkeeping software. They also have an interest rate of 4.25% APY and 1% cash back on debit card spending.
- •Baselane provides virtual debit cards, enabling hosts to control spending and assign cards to property managers or vendors with pre-set limits and expense categories.
Action Items
- ✓Explore Baselane's offerings for automation of bookkeeping tasks.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Consider using Baselane's virtual accounts to separately track income and expenses for each Airbnb unit.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Baselane: Baselane is mentioned as a bank tailored for real estate investors.
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