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Photos made easy - 6 Tips for taking good pictures of your apartment or guest room

How to make good photos for perfect presentation at www.urbanbnb.de?
Basically, we do not believe in that makes a professional photographer photos as offering the some competitors. On the one hand about costs, on the other hand these are not then your own photos, but belong to the photographer or agency. In addition, the distorted your object, then there is not, the photos show the reality. This annoys the guest.

Your mobile phone is sufficient. Be yourself your best photographer - here our tips

1. Photograph not only frontally
Experiment: photographed from above, or hold the camera sometimes wrong. To ensure exciting incident angle. With a cell phone you can also make a great space images. And it is not as striking as a real camera. Therefore, the chance is greater that your room Photo acting impartially.

2. Do not use the zoom
If the zoom using the phone, your photo will be grainy. This is bad especially for a larger view. Then rather nearer to the mobile phone to the object you want to photograph.

3. Always photograph daytime
Top with sun - bright and friendly. Window, let the sun in your room or apartment seem. Then you need no filter and then your images look very natural.

4. Create panoramic photo
Almost every mobile phone has a panorama function. This allows you to make 360 degree photo of your room or apartment. Often the Panorama function sometimes hides behind, for example, an icon with a mountain in your Fotoapp. To set on a picture because the whole room.

5. Always in Landscape
Do not create vertical pictures. Turn your phone over and create landscape photos. For every screen displays rather horizontal, in portrait orientation Reduce unnecessary space.

6. At least 1 MB
You can also set yourself which images are displayed on the detail page at www.urbanbnb.de top full surface in large size slider. Please make sure that the images are large enough (Recommended: 2500 pixels wide at 72 dpi resolution = 1 MB file size)

In your host account with us you can itself set the order of images, there is no limit how many images you upload.

So BnB is today.

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Tax Tips for our hosts

Furniture
Who rents a furnished apartment, can offset the cost of the furniture from the tax. However, where: items that are purchased for the rented apartment, and cost less than 410 euros , can not be fully deducted in the same year from the tax. Items whose value exceeds that amount must be deducted over several years. Tables that inform what items must be discontinued as long , there is the Federal Ministry of Finance. Buy a business owner, for example, for his rented apartment a quality fitted kitchen that needs to be amortized over ten years, he must proceed as follows: The total price of the kitchen is divided by ten. The sum, which comes out of it, may now be specified for ten years each time in the tax return.

Driving costs
Rides, make the landlord in connection with their rented apartment can settle landlord as travel expenses from the tax. As a rule, at a flat rate of EUR 0.30 per kilometer as a business expense

Office expenses
Landlords who completely take care of themselves to manage their property, can make office costs claimed. These include costs for phone or office supplies.

Restaurant
With a regular guest of us to go out to eat as a landlord times. The cost is deductible.

Cleaning utensils
Since mostly under 410 euros - once fully deductible

Bed sheets towels
Also fully deductible in the year of purchase

It therefore makes sense, here set aside in this type of Bnb - rental receipts. However, the figures are approximate, because we do not provide tax advice, please always vote this with your tax office or tax adviser.

Best regards

Claudia und Markus Urban
www.urbanbnb.de

Urbanbnb Bed Breakfast Portal - Now with new, optimized website

An innovative appearance , combined with improved clarity and optimized availability calendar, the owner and guests equally popular for many years is ND Bed Breakfast a name on the overnight market, which stands for fair conditions and total price with no hidden extras . Now, from ND Bed Breakfast Urbanbnb . But it changed not only the name , the Internet address and appearance . The changes also and above all, the handling by the owner and Bed & Breakfast guests . Here was placed on a simplification that is absolutely convincing.

Taking care of the availability calendar: easier than ever

Benefit as a bed and breakfast hosted by the new clarity that allows you an independent managing your locks and a little insight into the availability calendar that shows you all bookings including the corresponding host data. All details of your royalty statement, see also illustrated comfortable after you have logged in. In addition, you now have the option to use a Download Center. Here are various forms as well as the Internet use agreements for download. Ask yourself online your images, you wont whenever you want details and specifics of your property a. In all matters relating to the rental of your objects you can easily use the Communication Center.

Now also additional services can easily represent

Was it yet common practice , any additional services with the bed and breakfast guests to agree at their arrival , you now have the capability to display these additional services within the booking process and deliver . These may be services as an optional breakfast or parking, but also use the washing machine or bring a pet . The selected by the guest services are clearly summarized in the booking confirmation , so now can also be guaranteed for this an even better plan ahead.

The Bed & Breakfast guests currently benefit from 5 % discount for online bookings via the new Urbanbnb Presence.

In order to bring the guests closer to the new concept, this benefit currently from a discount of 5% on the room rate, as soon as they booked their room or apartment online through the new website and this book concludes with his cell phone. In this way he can be convinced of the advantages of the new presentation and user-friendly menu navigation. Further advantages for the guest are that he is online at any time an overview of all his reservations and any cancellation requests can also be put online. Plant it. An extension of stay, these subsequent posting is also easily possible online The bed and breakfast hosts benefited in turn from a high legal certainty of booking.

Executive Summary

For many years, ND Bed Breakfast is a name on the overnight market, which stands for fair conditions and total price with no hidden extras. Now, from ND Bed Breakfast to Urbanbnb. But it changed not only the name, the Internet address and appearance . The changes also and above all, the handling by the owner and Bed & Breakfast guests . Here was placed on a simplification that is absolutely convincing. The company Urbanbnd , based in Switzerland , provides since 1996 furnished guest rooms, suites and apartments as an alternative to the hotel bed. With around 880 hosts in Stuttgart, Berlin and Karlsruhe ND Bed & Breakfast is the largest agency of its kind. Owner Markus Urban is working on upgrades and expansion of the agency in Germany. Room and apartment providers are always welcome.