I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Lexington 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 Lexington, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Lexington, I price May and September to November as the peak and June to August 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 Lexington: Keeneland spring and fall race meets and sales; Horse farm tours and the Kentucky Horse Park; University of Kentucky athletics and graduation; Bourbon Trail distilleries nearby. Guests I price for: Racing fans and horse-industry buyers on 2 to 5 night stays, UK fans and parents, and bourbon-trail couples. Where I start: Keeneland and Derby-week premiums, game-weekend pricing, and sales-week rates for horse-industry buyers.
On Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com I run Lexington pricing in PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with Keeneland meet and sale dates loaded as custom events, Derby weekend as its own override and basketball home games added each season, so the tool reacts to the horse world and not only to the usual city patterns.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Lexington.
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.
Building a Lexington pricing strategy, I focus on how the base rate should move through the horse and university years. Inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse I set event overrides for Keeneland meets, auctions and Derby weekend, add basketball and football home dates each season, and hold sensible summer floors when bourbon-trail couples are the main guests.
My first decision with the owner is how far to lift sale weeks, since those multi-night buyer stays are where most homes here leave money behind.
Bourbon couples and horse-farm tourists fill weekends only, so I offer softer midweek pricing, shorter stays and a few weekly deals for visiting researchers and contractors.
The yearling sale, the fall meet, football and the November breeding stock sale overlap, so I price day by day here and avoid any discount for long stays that block race weekends.
Established streets near campus and downtown; I position them for parents, alumni and basketball weekends, with strong Saturday rates and gentler pricing in summer.
My full Lexington calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Lexington.
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 Lexington. Lift late April for the five-star eventing competition at the Kentucky Horse Park, which brings riders, owners and spectators for several days. Next: price Kentucky Oaks and Derby nights as a premium for guests who prefer staying in Lexington and driving to Churchill Downs, with a clear note on the drive.
Busiest in Lexington: April and October Keeneland race meets, Kentucky Derby week, and University of Kentucky football and basketball weekends. May: Oaks and Derby weekend come first, then the university's spring commencement; I release any unsold Derby nights about two weeks out rather than holding out until the last day. September to November: The yearling sale, the fall meet, football and the November breeding stock sale overlap, so I price day by day here and avoid any discount for long stays that block race weekends. 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 Lexington: January outside basketball and July to August. December: Once the sales close I drop to winter floors, hold Christmas week at a modest premium and keep basketball home dates visible so they are not sold at off-season prices. January to February: Keeneland's January sale brings buyers when leisure is asleep, so I lift those dates for homes near the track and price basketball Saturdays separately from the empty weekdays around them.
Pricing a Keeneland sale week like a normal September or November weekday because there is no race that day and assuming Derby week belongs to Louisville only and leaving Lexington homes at ordinary May rates. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Lexington, 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 Lexington behave differently. Downtown and the Distillery District: Smaller units near Rupp Arena and the bourbon and food spots along Manchester Street; I sell short stays to couples and concertgoers and push midweek for business visitors. Chevy Chase and Ashland Park and Versailles Road and the west side get their own treatment.
University of Kentucky athletics and graduation, Bourbon Trail distilleries nearby and Keeneland spring and fall race meets and sales are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Lexington. September to November: The yearling sale, the fall meet, football and the November breeding stock sale overlap, so I price day by day here and avoid any discount for long stays that block race weekends.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Lexington, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Lexington sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. September to November: The yearling sale, the fall meet, football and the November breeding stock sale overlap, so I price day by day here and avoid any discount for long stays that block race weekends.
How long the drive is to Keeneland and Blue Grass Airport, which sit across Versailles Road from each other, since buyers and racing fans flying in judge a home on that first trip. 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 Lexington I would start from March to April: The Blue Grass Stakes and the spring meet carry April, and I keep race-day Saturdays at two nights while letting Tuesday and Wednesday arrivals in at fairer rates. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Lexington.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Lexington the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: lift late April for the five-star eventing competition at the Kentucky Horse Park, which brings riders, owners and spectators for several days. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Lexington is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Lexington have been optimized, including in areas such as Downtown and the Distillery District. 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 Lexington.
The other services I offer in Lexington, 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 Lexington, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Lexington, 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 Lexington and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
