I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Ann Arbor strategy inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, explaining every setting. One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125; or run it with Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing from $17.99 per listing per month.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb pricing strategy for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Ann Arbor, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Ann Arbor, I price September to November as the peak and January to February and December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
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An Airbnb pricing strategy is the set of rules that decide what each night is worth: base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events, minimum stays, gap nights, last-minute pricing, length-of-stay discounts and channel markups. The tool applies the rules; the strategy is what makes the tool worth having. Smart Pricing is not a strategy, because it optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate and knows nothing about your events or other channels.
What I plan around in Ann Arbor: Wolverines home football Saturdays at the Big House; University of Michigan graduation and parents' weekends; The Ann Arbor Art Fair in July; Medical and research visitors to Michigan Medicine. Guests I price for: Visiting families and alumni on 1 to 2 night football-weekend stays near Central Campus and downtown, plus longer parent and medical stays in Kerrytown and Burns Park. Where I start: Game-day single-night surges tied to the seven home football dates, graduation and Art Fair peaks, and 30-plus-night furnished demand from the medical centre.
For hosts I set up your pricing tool with each home game priced individually, commencement and the Art Fair as events, and monthly discounts for Michigan Medicine visitors and staff. Minimum stays match how football and family visitors actually book.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Ann Arbor.
I set the base from a real comp set, a minimum that protects your margin and a maximum that stops you underselling a peak night, listing by listing.
I build seasonal profiles and event premiums from the local calendar, so rates move before demand does and not after.
Minimum stays, gap and orphan nights and length-of-stay discounts are set to fill the calendar without discounting the whole month.
I configure OTA markups so your net rate is the same on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and leave time to ask anything about pricing.
“Ann Arbor has seven football Saturdays that matter more than almost anything else. Michigan home games at the Big House can earn several normal weekends' worth each. Graduation and the Art Fair add peaks, and Michigan Medicine brings long medical stays. The city's rules on short-term rentals also need checking.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Outside basketball and hockey weekends, the city is quiet, so I lean on medical and academic stays with weekly and monthly rates.
Campus visits and admitted-student days build toward commencement, which I price as the top spring event with a two or three-night minimum.
The Art Fair in July is the summer peak, so I price it as an event and keep the rest of summer flexible for visiting researchers and families.
Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too.
Students leave and visitors are few, so I lower floors and keep monthly rates attractive for medical staff and visiting faculty.
Price each Michigan home football weekend individually as soon as the schedule is out.
Price graduation and parents' weekends as premiums.
Add the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July.
Build 30-plus-night rates for medical and academic stays.
Check the city's rules for the property type.
You rely on Smart Pricing
You want a strategy that considers events, gaps and every channel.
You have a tool on defaults
PriceLabs or Wheelhouse is connected but the rules were never set up.
Your pace trails the market
Bookings arrive late or prices look low in peak weeks.
You want to run it yourself
You prefer to price on your own once the strategy is right.
Choose the package for your listing count and a slot in your time zone. Payment is taken securely at booking.
Share the listing links and tool access so I can review competitors and settings before the call.
On Zoom I set seasons, events, stay rules and markups with you on screen, and explain why each setting is there.
Step 4
A revisit session re-tunes the strategy against your results, from $75.
One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125. Wheelhouse follows the same schedule and revisits start from $75. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 2 listings, 45-minute session | $125 |
| Growth | 3 to 6 listings, 60-minute session | $250 |
| Portfolio | 7 to 10 listings, 90-minute session | $370 |
| Scale | 11 to 15 listings, 90-minute session | $480 |
| Pro | 16 to 21 listings, 120-minute session | $615 |
| Enterprise | 22 or more listings, 120-minute session | $635 |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
For Airbnb pricing strategy, the first changes are base and minimum prices and the seasonal profile, since those drive most of the revenue in Ann Arbor. Check the city's rules for the property type. Next: price graduation and parents' weekends as premiums.
Busiest in Ann Arbor: Football Saturdays from September to November, graduation in May and the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July. September to November: Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too. For Airbnb pricing strategy, the strategy I build sets seasonal profiles, event premiums and minimum-stay rules around these windows before they open for booking.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, for the quiet months I set the minimum price, last-minute and gap-night rules and length-of-stay discounts so nights fill without dropping below your floor. Quietest in Ann Arbor: Deep winter in January and February outside event dates. December: Students leave and visitors are few, so I lower floors and keep monthly rates attractive for medical staff and visiting faculty. January to February: Outside basketball and hockey weekends, the city is quiet, so I lean on medical and academic stays with weekly and monthly rates.
All football weekends priced the same and medical demand ignored. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Ann Arbor, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, i set base prices and comp sets per area, with a separate profile where two parts of Ann Arbor behave differently. Kerrytown: A historic district near the farmers market and the medical campus; I price it for families and medical visitors and lift Art Fair and football weekends. Central Campus and Downtown and Burns Park get their own treatment.
The Ann Arbor Art Fair in July, Medical and research visitors to Michigan Medicine and Wolverines home football Saturdays at the Big House are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Ann Arbor. March to May: Campus visits and admitted-student days build toward commencement, which I price as the top spring event with a two or three-night minimum.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Ann Arbor, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Ann Arbor sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder for medical and academic stays. March to May: Campus visits and admitted-student days build toward commencement, which I price as the top spring event with a two or three-night minimum.
Whether each football weekend has its own rate and minimum, since rivalry games and night games behave very differently from early-season matchups. For Airbnb pricing strategy, i check this before touching a single rate, because a base price built on the wrong assumption makes every rule worse.
PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month. The scope of Airbnb pricing strategy is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Ann Arbor I would start from September to November: Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Ann Arbor.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Ann Arbor the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: check the city's rules for the property type. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Ann Arbor is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Ann Arbor have been optimized, including in areas such as Kerrytown. I build it live with you on Zoom in your time zone, inside PriceLabs, Wheelhouse or Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Ann Arbor.
The other services I offer in Ann Arbor, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Ann Arbor, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Ann Arbor, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Ann Arbor and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
