Most German holiday-home owners start renting without any training: pricing, furnishing, listing texts, guest communication and legal basics are learned by trial and error, and mistakes show up as empty calendars and bad reviews.
Ferienhaus Akademie is a Berlin-based training and consulting provider for holiday-home hosts, run by Ute Rentmeister and Heike Inkermann. It offers courses on running a Ferienhaus or Ferienwohnung, one-to-one consulting, a "Ferienhaus-Check" audit of an existing property and a public glossary of rental terms.
Courses take place in real holiday properties rather than seminar rooms so participants experience what makes a rental work. Consulting and the Ferienhaus-Check are booked individually; dates for open courses are published on the site, and a network of partner providers is referenced for follow-on services.
Private owners and small hosts in Germany who are starting out or want to professionalise an existing holiday home.
Listed on STR Market Map, the short-term-rental software marketplace.