Get your rentals booking on Booking.com, with a live audit and fixes.I audit the listing, complete the content score, tune photos, rate plans, deals and policies, and make the changes with you on Zoom. I work with Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Ann Arbor, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Booking.com optimization for rentals 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. Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom.
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Properties optimized in and around Ann Arbor
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Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
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Booking.com optimization for rentals is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Booking.com. I audit the listing, complete the content score, tune photos, rate plans, deals and policies, and make the changes with you on Zoom.
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.
Ann Arbor sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder for medical and academic stays. 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 booking.com listing optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Ann Arbor.
Booking.com scores how complete a listing is. I fill the fields, rewrite descriptions for the guests who book there and tidy room details.
I choose the cover and order the gallery against the nearest competing listings.
I structure rate plans and judge which promotions and Genius levels pay for themselves.
Cancellation terms and review scores feed ranking, so I tune both and write reply templates.
“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.
Many hosts connect Booking.com once and never return, then wonder why it brings so little. The channel rewards completeness and price position, and it reaches guests who never open Airbnb. I fix the listing and tie its rates to your pricing strategy.
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.
A new Booking.com listing
You have just connected Booking.com and want it to rank and convert from the first weeks, not after months of guessing.
Views but few bookings
Visibility looks fine and conversion does not, which usually means content, photos or rate plans on Booking.com.
Commission without much return
You pay Booking.com commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Booking.com and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Booking.com listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Booking.com: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Booking.com account or through your channel manager, and explain each one so you can maintain it.
Step 4
About 30 days later I look at impressions, conversion and booking share on Booking.com and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans, priced by listing count, from $95. Each is a live Zoom session with a full audit and the fixes made on the spot.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single | 1 listing, 30-minute session | $95 |
| Portfolio | 2 to 4 listings, 45-minute session | $145 |
| Scale | 5 to 8 listings, 60-minute session | $245 |
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 Booking.com optimization for rentals in Ann Arbor, i optimize Booking.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Ann Arbor sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder for medical and academic stays. December: Students leave and visitors are few, so I lower floors and keep monthly rates attractive for medical staff and visiting faculty.
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 Booking.com optimization for rentals, on Booking.com, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i write content and photo order on Booking.com for the guests who actually search for Ann Arbor. 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. Demand is driven by Medical and research visitors to Michigan Medicine and Wolverines home football Saturdays at the Big House.
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. For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Booking.com around the specific part of Ann Arbor the property is in.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, the first changes on Booking.com are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Ann Arbor traveler clicks. Add the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July. Next: check the city's rules for the property type.
Whether the property meets the city's short-term rental rules, because Ann Arbor restricts non-owner-occupied rentals in many residential areas and enforcement is active. For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i check this on Booking.com first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals in Ann Arbor, this is how I would approach it. Minimum stays match how football and family visitors actually book. 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. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i price properties for a living, so content, rates and promotions are tuned together and not in isolation. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Ann Arbor and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: build 30-plus-night rates for medical and academic stays.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom. The scope of Booking.com optimization for rentals 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.
Yes. Booking.com Optimization Expert for Rentals 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 implement it live on Zoom in your Booking.com extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run 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 Booking.com optimization for rentals 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.
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 booking.com listing optimization.
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.
