Writing your listing

A title a guest can search

Name the village or town and the type of stay. Guests search Gabala, Sheki, Lankaran, Quba — not a poem. “Courtyard house in Sheki” or “Two-room stay above Lankaran” tells them where they are going. Keep the title short. Do not fill it with capitals, symbols or a list of every amenity.

If the stay is a family house with a shared yard, say so in the title or the first line. If they will have the house to themselves, say that. Search and the first sentence should agree. Absolute drafts with you on the visit; you still read every word before it goes live.

Describe the stay as it is

Write as if you are telling a neighbour who has never been. How many bedrooms, who sleeps where, whether the bathroom is private or shared. If you live on the same plot, write it once, plainly. A guest who expects an empty house and meets your family at breakfast is an AbsoluteCover problem, not a surprise that “adds colour”.

Mention what they will actually use: the kitchen they can cook in, the table that seats six, the path from the gate after dark. Mention what they will not use if it looks like a guest room in the photographs — a locked family bedroom, a storage loft.

Be specific about the practical

Rural mobile signal, a steep track in rain, well water in August, a wood stove you light in January — write those. Distance to the marshrutka, the bazaar and the nearest pharmacy matters more than a sentence about “peace and nature”. If you are an hour from a named lake, write the hour. Do not write “nearby”.

If heating, a pool or air conditioning is seasonal, write the months. If the kitchen is shared, write who else uses it and when. Guests plan around facts. They do not plan around adjectives.

What the price does not include

Say what the nightly price in AZN does not cover: breakfast, firewood, a driver, towels if they must bring their own. If drinking water is bottled and they buy it, say so. If the “garden” is a shared yard with the neighbour’s chickens, say so. Honesty here is cheaper than a refund later.

Pets, smoking, parties and extra overnight visitors belong in house rules as well as the description. Repeat the two or three limits that change who should book. The guest still pays the stay subtotal plus a 15% programme fee — that fee is not taken from your nightly floor.

Accuracy is AbsoluteCover

If the listing is significantly different from the stay — wrong bedroom count, a bathroom that is not private, an amenity that is not there — AbsoluteCover for guests can rebook or refund. That reservation does not pay you. Keep amenities, photographs and the written description aligned after we publish.

You do not need poetry. You need a page a stranger can trust at 23:00 on a phone in Baku. If something changes, tell Absolute before the next guest. Write through the contact page; we reply from info@abaz.az.

How we write it together

Absolute builds the listing with you on the visit. We draft from what we see and what you tell us. Read every sentence before it goes live. If a line is prettier than the house, cut it. If a line is missing — the ice on the step, the shared hamam — add it.

Update when the house changes: a new heater, a closed room, a pool that will not open this summer. A listing that still looks like last May is how a July guest arrives angry. One honest page is how a courtyard in Sheki books from a stranger.