I run the pricing, you keep the property.I price every night of your San Antonio listings, set the stay rules, manage the channels and send you a monthly report, with plans from $225 a month for one listing. Month to month, remote in Central Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb revenue management for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in San Antonio, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In San Antonio, I price February to April as the peak and January and August to September as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Airbnb revenue management is priced monthly by listing count, from $225 a month for one listing and $325 for two, with Plus at 35 percent more and Pro at 75 percent more than Core. It runs month to month and is never a percentage of revenue.
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Properties optimized in and around San Antonio
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Airbnb revenue management is the ongoing work of pricing every night, setting stay rules, managing channels and reporting results. It goes further than a pricing tool: I review the strategy as demand, events and your own pace change, and I explain every change I make.
What I plan around in San Antonio: Fiesta San Antonio; River Walk and the Alamo; Fredericksburg wine country and Oktoberfest; Conventions and military travel. Guests I price for: Texas families and couples on 2 to 4 night stays, convention attendees midweek. Where I start: Fiesta and holiday premiums, wine-weekend pricing in the Hill Country, and STR registration compliance.
I set up PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with the Rodeo, Fiesta, River Walk lights and convention dates for city homes, and weekend and Oktoberfest logic for Hill Country homes. Minimum stays follow each period, and Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com share the same rates.
The service in general is described on my airbnb revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in San Antonio.
I review demand and pace and make two or three price changes a week where the market calls for them, inside the tool you already use.
On Plus I also optimize listings, plan promotions, track competitor rates per listing and manage Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo together.
A monthly summary on every plan and a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, so you see what changed and why.
On Pro I forecast demand, keep a 12-month pricing calendar, meet you monthly and review quarterly, and I set launch prices for new listings.
“San Antonio and the Hill Country are two markets. San Antonio sells the River Walk, Fiesta, conventions and military family travel, while Fredericksburg and the Hill Country sell wine weekends and small-town getaways. San Antonio also requires short-term rental permits. I price city homes around events and conventions, and Hill Country homes around weekends.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
I lean on convention weeks and visiting military families in the city and keep Hill Country weekend rates realistic, since wine weekends are the only steady demand there this month.
The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Texas spring break, bluebonnet weekends and then Fiesta follow each other, so I price week by week rather than setting one spring rate.
River tubing in New Braunfels and Gruene, Fredericksburg peach season and family vacations keep weekends strong; I use three-night stays near the rivers and two nights in town.
Heat pushes leisure guests away, so I hold weekday rates for conventions, discount Hill Country midweek nights and only lift Labor Day and the occasional large convention.
Fredericksburg Oktoberfest and the harvest bring the Hill Country's busiest autumn weekends, and I raise those while city homes follow cooler-weather leisure and the convention calendar.
The River Walk lights and holiday family visits lift city weekends from Thanksgiving, while Hill Country homes sell Christmas lights in Johnson City and Fredericksburg as weekend getaways.
Price Fiesta San Antonio in April and the holiday River Walk lights as city premiums.
Add large convention weeks and military graduation weekends for city homes.
Price Fredericksburg homes around weekends, with Oktoberfest as a premium.
Discount Hill Country weekdays and allow short stays.
Confirm the San Antonio permit before listing.
One listing and no time
You want pricing handled properly without checking the calendar every day.
A growing portfolio
You manage several listings and need one consistent, scalable method.
A property manager
You want owner-ready reporting and revenue leadership without an in-house hire.
Smart Pricing is not enough
Airbnb's own tool optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate, not your revenue across channels.
Send the listing links, your pricing tool and your goals. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your listing count.
I build the base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events and stay rules for your market before the first month starts.
I watch demand and pace and move prices and restrictions as the market does.
Step 4
You get the monthly report, and on Pro we meet, and I adjust the plan from the results.
Priced monthly by listing count on a graduated curve, so there are no tier cliffs. Plus adds 35 percent and Pro 75 percent to the Core price. Never a percentage of revenue.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $225/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus listing and channel optimization | Core +35% |
| Pro | Full revenue management with a monthly strategy call | Core +75% |
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
Busiest in San Antonio: Fiesta in April, Spring Break, summer, and the holiday River Walk lights, with Fredericksburg wine weekends year-round. February to April: The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Texas spring break, bluebonnet weekends and then Fiesta follow each other, so I price week by week rather than setting one spring rate. May to July: River tubing in New Braunfels and Gruene, Fredericksburg peach season and family vacations keep weekends strong; I use three-night stays near the rivers and two nights in town. For Airbnb revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For Airbnb revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. Whether city homes carry the right San Antonio permit type for an owner-occupied or non-owner-occupied rental, and whether Hill Country homes meet their own city or county rules, before I set a single rate.
Price Fiesta San Antonio in April and the holiday River Walk lights as city premiums. Next: price Fredericksburg homes around weekends, with Oktoberfest as a premium. For Airbnb revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a San Antonio property usually leaks the most.
For Airbnb revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Quietest in San Antonio: January to February and August heat. August to September: Heat pushes leisure guests away, so I hold weekday rates for conventions, discount Hill Country midweek nights and only lift Labor Day and the occasional large convention. January: I lean on convention weeks and visiting military families in the city and keep Hill Country weekend rates realistic, since wine weekends are the only steady demand there this month.
Hill Country homes priced from San Antonio comps and military graduation weekends ignored. I look for these first when I review Airbnb revenue management in San Antonio, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb revenue management in San Antonio, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. San Antonio sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. May to July: River tubing in New Braunfels and Gruene, Fredericksburg peach season and family vacations keep weekends strong; I use three-night stays near the rivers and two nights in town.
Fredericksburg and Gruene: Wine weekends in one and river trips in the other; I keep weekend pricing firm, discount weekdays and treat Oktoberfest and summer tubing as their own peaks. King William and Southtown and Pearl and Alamo Heights get their own treatment. For Airbnb revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Conventions and military travel, Fiesta San Antonio and River Walk and the Alamo are the dates I price first for Airbnb revenue management in San Antonio. November to December: The River Walk lights and holiday family visits lift city weekends from Thanksgiving, while Hill Country homes sell Christmas lights in Johnson City and Fredericksburg as weekend getaways.
For Airbnb revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around San Antonio and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: confirm the San Antonio permit before listing.
Airbnb revenue management is priced monthly by listing count, from $225 a month for one listing and $325 for two, with Plus at 35 percent more and Pro at 75 percent more than Core. It runs month to month and is never a percentage of revenue. The scope of Airbnb revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in San Antonio I would start from October: Fredericksburg Oktoberfest and the harvest bring the Hill Country's busiest autumn weekends, and I raise those while city homes follow cooler-weather leisure and the convention calendar. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in San Antonio.
Yes. Airbnb Revenue Management Consultant in San Antonio is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around San Antonio have been optimized, including in areas such as King William and Southtown. I work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in San Antonio.
The other services I offer in San Antonio, 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 San Antonio, or read the general page for airbnb revenue management.
If you also run properties outside San Antonio, 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 San Antonio and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
