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Mastering Airbnb | Learn from SF's top host, 100+ lectures (Udemy.com)

The comprehensive guide to meeting great people, getting paid to travel, and becoming a master of Airbnb

Created by: Evan Kimbrell

Last updated December 2025

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What you will learn

  • Turn your spare room into a rental income of up to $250 / night
  • Turn your entire place into a rental income of up to $600 / night
  • Price your listing in a way that gets bookings without reviews
  • Scope out your competition to identify your listing's market potential
  • Identify and add amenities to dramatically increase the value of your listing
  • Take Airbnb quality photos without a professional photo team
  • Choose the thumbnail that creates the most interest
  • Tips for using free software to enhance your listing's photos
  • Learn how to get featured by AirBNB
  • How to show up on the first page of AirBNB search
  • Write listing descriptions that grab bookings
  • Write the perfect attention-grabbing title for your space
  • Correctly set cleaning fees and minimum night restrictions
  • Figure out the right long-term cleaning arrangement

How it compares

Against the other 75 rated Udemy courses in Real Estate on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 9% of them
  • Reviews980#23 of 76 by number of reviews
  • Length15.7 hourslonger than 94% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 53% of them

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Course Description

My property was officially number one in San Francisco when you searched for 3+ guests. That was number one out of 5,000+ listings. Over 11,000 students have taken this course that contains 16+ hours of content and has over 300 five-star reviews. Join in!

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  "Best course I've taken on Udemy. Solid course. I'm in the middle of starting a business and this is perfect. I had heard about how companies had funded their initial start through Airbnb and this course is a complete steal. There are so many ways you can use Airbnb to upgrade your situation. This course ROCKS." -- Jeff Tran 

  "Fantastic Investment. I signed up for this course when it first came out a little over a month ago. I was already a host but I was in what Evan called the "beginning blues" where I was getting bookings but not enough and for little money. I took his course and I'm happy to say already in a month, his techniques are making a really big difference. My bookings next month are already up 30% in price and I'm getting close to filling all my weekends I wanted. Next month I've already booked $2300, which is really exciting. I've gone back to this course so many times already because its been so valuable. Evan's even helped me out on several occasions. I just wanted to come back and write this review to encourage anyone reading this to take this course. Its already paid for itself many times over." -- Laura Greer 

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I once made $7,579 while vacationing in Bali. How did I make that much? By doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. All I had to do was rent my apartment out on Airbnb and leave for the month.

I know it sounds ridiculous but it's true. I got paid $260 / day to simply not be in my apartment.

I bet that by now you've heard of Airbnb. If you don't use it, chances are someone you know does. Airbnb lets you rent out your spare room or entire space for money, and the company has been growing like wildfire. Airbnb now has over 350,000 hosts, who are just ordinary people, renting their spaces in over 192 countries. They have booked over 10 million rental nights in homes, apartments, rooms, and spaces just like yours. 

You know what the best part is? A private room on Airbnb rents for an average of $120 / night. You could make that by renting out a spare room - or 3x that for your whole space.

I have personally made over $60,000 renting out my space on Airbnb. On average I spent about 4~ hours per week handling guests, maintaining the space, and everything else involved. On a typical month I would make $4,000 - $5,000. If I was traveling I would make between $7,000 - $10,000 a month.

Is this abnormal? Not at all. I have helped several of my friends list their places on Airbnb and they all make a minimum of $2,000 / month. Thousands of hosts on Airbnb make well over $100,000 a year from their rental income and with only one property. 

When I first started hosting on AirBNB, I thought, "What the heck, its worth a shot." I had just moved to San Francisco and signed a big one-year lease for an apartment that was $3,000 a month. Not to mention being self employed with a business that ebbs and flows. What if I hit a bad month and couldn't make rent? A terrible feeling that most of us have probably had. 

The first month I started Airbnb, I made $4,963. That blew my expectations away. It covered my rent, utilities, cleanings, and I pocketed an extra $1,500. Airbnb saved me like it's saved so many others.

Just so you know, the spaces on Airbnb are not hotel quality spaces. They're spare rooms, apartments, and homes that everyday, ordinary people live in. Spare bedrooms, living rooms, empty condos, spare family homes, and any other dwelling you can think of. 

Do you have extra space where you're living? Do you ever leave for the weekend or go home for the holidays? Can you crash at a significant other's for the weekend? If you're like me, or really anyone else, I'm sure you can think of a time where you've had unused space. You could be missing out on a significant amount of money. Money that could make a big difference in your life.

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Some things you'll learn in the course: 

- How to step-by-step get your spare room or space renting for up to $5,000 / month, or your entire space for up to $10,000 / month 

- Everything you need to know before starting the process so you can hit the ground running 

- How to scope out your competition, create a plan, and land on the first page of search 

- How to perfect your listing: from photographs to thumbnails to listing descriptions 

- Every tip and trick I used to triple my booking inquiries in jone month 

- How to limit your rental related work to 3-4 hours a week

- How to virtually guarantee 5-star reviews from each guest 

- How to become a SuperHost and join the top 5% of Airbnb hosts 

- Plus so much more. There are over 100+ lectures and 13 hours of content included in this course. 

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Some common questions: 

Can anyone do this?   

Yes, absolutely anyone can do this. Airbnb is in 192 countries and even in cities with fewer than 10,000 people. With my course I'll show you exactly how you can be successful in any environment. 

What if my space isn't nice? 

Every space has a price and if you follow my steps you can maximize that price. If you're not happy with the price you get, follow my advice and you can easily get more and more per night. 

What if I don't own my space, I just rent it? 

Even if you don't own your space, even if you don't think you have room, even if you think your city is too small, you can rent out your space. 

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AirBNB was a life changer for me and I want it to be the same for you. I've studied the AirBNB market, have hosted over 200 guests, and collaborated with five other rockstar hosts to bring this course together. In this course you'll get everything you need to skip the painful learning process and start maximizing your profit quickly.

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Instructor Details

Evan Kimbrell

                  Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course. 

**My courses have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch**

        Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC. 

Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category.

                  In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed. 

                  Hope you enjoy my courses!

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Reviews

4.3

980 ratings on Udemy

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By Claude Viaene on 5/15/2025

Very good tips and ideas ; talks very fluently ; there're almost no visuals, the most important thing is good pictures, but I only see about ten photos ; can you also give more examples of mails, you send to clients ; the course is 15.5 hours, if it's more structured, I think, 4 hours would explain your ideas. The ideas were worth the money, but stop repeating everything.

By Alin Yang on 5/3/2022

Great course with detailed information about every step and process. Sometimes I felt like Evan went too into detail about a topic. But just like Airbnb, you want to underpromise and overdeliver. The discussion portion of the course was super helpful, and I was able to find my answers there. This is a perfect course for you if you already own a home or rental unit with extra space to rent. There is almost no information on rental arbitrage. Overall this is still a very comprehensive course.

By Armando Ramirez on 4/17/2022

mostly common sense knowledge and severely outdated. at some point these courses need to be forced to update or be taken down. i thought it was sneaky how the author arranged his chapters to increase the overall length of time in the course.

By Ibrahim EL SIBAI on 7/10/2017

The course is very well structured, if you are just starting out with Airbnb you are in the right place and in good hands. Evan is very helpful and tried to be as specific as possible throughout the whole course. His communication skills and tonalities are very friendly, he is also responsive if you have questions. Lots of details and cheat sheets and summaries so you don't have to listen to it again, I personally printed the documents and now I have an Airbnb guide to remind how to be a great host.

By Jacklyn Deans on 5/31/2017

Tremendously helpful! The best course for Airbnb! We are now making a few thousand dollars a month from Airbnb because of this course. We list 2 rooms near JFK. We watched this before starting so that we could start strong. We started in late March 2017. Our listings are the best in the area. While others around us are struggling, we are booked out for months in advance and each month we have a 100% occupancy rate. This was our secret weapon. We are very thankful to Evan for making this course. When people ask me about how to get started on Airbnb, I point them to this course.

By Samantha Boettcher on 2/15/2017

I genuinely loved this course. My husband and I decided (two weeks before I had ever heard of Udemy) to set up a listing for our extra bedrooms on Airbnb. In the last month we've had 4 bookings and are happy campers. Our first few guests have been, too! We couldn't be more grateful for the knowledge shared with us. Only feedback I have is that a lot of information given is for entire homes/flats being rented out, so I had to modify it to fit a shared home listing. I definitely recommend you take this, even if you're still considering-- it'll let you know what you're getting into. *Edit* I am now a superhost! Thanks so much for teachin me the essentials for creating the perfect space. :)

By Jazzerman on 5/13/2016

I have a windows phone and I can't access the course on it. so I have to use my computer to access it. It is not downloadable and it so far is mostly audio. If I could listen to it in my car while I'm driving that would be great but I can't . that is why the poor rating. It does have excellent suggestions and content. I'm just upset that my windows phone can't access it. Make it downloadable and I will give a top rating. After finishing the course I decided that if you try some of the many excellent suggestions you can't lose. The couse was well worth it for time and money.

By Condo Hire on 2/20/2016

The course starts out with some general advice for those new to hosting in AirBnB. As I have listed with AirBnB for a few months already, at first, I wanted to skip to the first part of the course, but I did not know whether specific tips or strategies will be included in the first part of the course. Thus, I spent considerable time to go through the first parts of the course. Specific usable tips and strategies come in the later part of the course. I implemented a few of the strategies such as rewriting my detailed description to be more friendly. One suggestion is perhaps to include right at the start of the course in the first lecture a cheat sheet summarising key strategies and tips and hyperlinks to the specific parts of the course with the more specific tips and strategies. In other words, for those with limited time, how to within 1 hour of the course to have the most useful specific tips and strategies immediately in the hands of the course participant.

By Brian Hood on 9/21/2015

Before this course: I had a half-assed Airbnb listing that had 0 views and 0 booking requests. After this course: I was swamped with booking requests, and managed to gain superhost status on July 1st, even though my first guest was booked at the end of May. In July and August I've averaged ~$10,000 per month in income. September will bring in $9600 JUST from four 2-day weekends. October will bring ~$14,000 from thee 3-day weekends and one 2-day weekend. Now I just live here during the week, booking out my weekends, and go travel somewhere (easy to do when you're making $2500\week from airbnb). Needless to say, I would recommend this course.

By Catherine Peterson on 5/15/2015

We happened across this course and were a little gun shy but the price was right and we gave it a go. WOW! Were we glad we did. Evan has put together so much information in a way that is so comfortable and actually enjoyable to listen to. The format allows you to have it on in the background while you go about your day so you are not stuck to the computer. He told us right up front that if we needed to contact him to just reach out - his response rate is spot on! Sometimes I imagine these courses can be put up and then somewhat forgotten about, not the case here. You can easily tell why he has been so successful with his own Airbnb set up because his work ethic shines through here in this course. Thanks Evan! Cathi (&Sandy)

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