# List your first place

Source: https://app.rentiqa.com/help/hosts/list-your-first-place

> Give the address of your first rental to become a host, then add the details, photos and check-in instructions guests need.

## Become a host

1. Sign up (see [Create your account](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/getting-started/create-your-account)), or if you already have an account choose **Become a host** from your avatar menu.
2. On **List your first place** ([start](https://app.rentiqa.com/start/host)), enter the address (street, city or town, ZIP, country and state). Optionally give it a **Name for your own use**.
3. Press **Start hosting**.

Your account becomes a host account straight away and the new place's page opens, marked **Not public · draft**: only you can see it until you make it public.

## Fill in the place

Your places are on **Dashboard** ([Your rentals](https://app.rentiqa.com/rentals/dashboard); the **Rentals** tab on a phone). Open one to see its tabs: **Overview**, **Pricing & calendar**, **Photos** and **Details**. A **Listing checklist** on the Overview shows what is still missing (state in the address, photos, nightly price, description, registration number) and disappears once everything is done.

- **Details**: edit each card with **Edit**, then **Save**:
  - **Name and description**: your own name for it, the **Listing title** guests see, a **Registration number** if your town requires one, and the description.
  - **Rooms and guests**: type, bedrooms, bathrooms, beds, how many it sleeps and maximum guests.
  - **Address**: include the state; without it the place cannot be booked, because taxes cannot be worked out.
  - **Amenities and house rules**: tick what applies.
- **Photos**: drag photos onto the box or click it. Choose the main photo with the star; the bin deletes one.
- **Pricing & calendar**: see [Set prices and availability](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/hosts/set-prices-and-availability).

## Check-in instructions

On the Overview, under **More for this rental**, open **Check-in and instant book**. Set the usual check-in and check-out times and write the **Check-in instructions** (the address, how to get in, parking, Wi-Fi) and **Check-out instructions**. Press **Save instructions**. Guests see them on their trip page only once their booking is confirmed. The confirmation email carries them with the address, and so does a reminder Rentiqa emails the guest the day before arrival. Every guest gets the same instructions; for a one-off detail, message the guest.

House rules you tick on the Details tab are not shown on the public listing yet, so put any that matter in the description or the instructions.

To add another place, press **Add property** on your dashboard. To bring in places you already list on Airbnb or Vrbo, see [Import from Airbnb or Vrbo](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/hosts/import-from-airbnb-or-vrbo).

## If Rentiqa removes your listing

Guests and renters can report a listing. If Rentiqa finds it breaks the rules, it takes the place off search and closes its listings, and you get an email and a notification saying why. While it is removed you cannot publish it again yourself. If you think it is a mistake, open a support ticket from **Support**; once Rentiqa restores it, the place is back as it was and you are told.

Next: [Set prices and availability](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/hosts/set-prices-and-availability).