Here's Exactly How Much Your Apartment Is Worth on Airbnb

If you don’t already list your home on Airbnb — or any of the other short-term rental sites that have become de rigueur in recent years — you’ve at least wondered, “I wonder how much money I could be making by doing so?”

Well, here’s your answer.

Plug in your address, and the data-rich search stylings of Eliot and Me’s new Airbnb calculator will tell you how much money you could charge by subletting your spot on a homeshar site.

Now: Don’t get me wrong. Having dated an Airbnb host, I have zero illusions about the experience. Let’s consider, for a moment, the guest who commandeered the kitchen at three A.M. for a fry-up of sausage and onions. Or the one who left behind the puke-encrusted towels. Or even the nice, normal ones whose delayed flights or early checkins meant that a part-time side hustle turned into a full-time aggravation. It’s not for everybody.

But it is a way to earn extra cash, and this can give you some solid numbers to consider. More interesting: it can pinpoint the most in-demand periods of the year to allow for some very targeted availability. New Yorkers: consider letting a space during the upcoming U.S. Open, when visitor rolls will climb 13.5%, or Labor Day weekend, when they’ll go up 17%. San Franciscans, consider early November, when Dreamforce will mean a 24% rise in searches.

If you’re gonna do it, might as well do it right. This could help.

Meet your guide

Diane Rommel

Diane Rommel has written for The Wall Street Journal, Outside, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper and Afar, as well as The Cut, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and McSweeney’s. She once drove from London to Mongolia, via Siberia.