Hi, everyone! I’ve decided to deactivate our “EVENTS” section of our profile. Our experience has been terrible when it comes to renting our venue for events. Any events booked for 35 year olds and under have been awful and not worth any rental amount. Even with clean-up fees, etc. it’s not been worth it. We’re keeping our “production studio” profile for other bookings, just not parties/events. Anyone else come to this decision?
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Nor are we. When we first signed up we opted out of any party, wedding, birthday, events. We’ve had 11 family and friend weddings on our property and even friends and family can causei a lot of damage and inconvenience. Good Call.
I am a property manager and have seen way to much via Airbnb to consider Events and even film is precarious if you don’t put in ‘explicit’ language relating to filming porn. I would definitely tread lightly in the Event department, and am glad you brought this up, the owner I represent expressed some interest in Events and I told him we were going to dip our toes in the water in Film first. Wise decision, Israel.
I’ve had great experiences with most, but occasionally a stinker gets in. You learn to be picky and to trust your gut. I’m in Indiana though and most hoosiers willing to pay the hourly rate are built different. 
Just have a good open honest conversation, treat them well and they will reciprocate in most cases.
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I agree with trusting your gut. For me, I’ve found it to be way more work to host parties for a large group of college kids than for groups that are in their 30s and up. I find that the younger people expect more for less and sometimes leave a mess. Best to price high for events to keep out the riff rat (roudy kids). Mature people tend to know how to pick up after themselves, are less likely to blast loud music until the wee hours, and are just overall more considerate. We still host events, but charge more. That seems to do it for us