One of the most popular short-term and vacation rental marketplace is Airbnb, which in just a few years has developed a huge market. If you want to consistently rent out your property on Airbnb, your reviews are a huge factor. A large number of 5-star Airbnb reviews will make potential guests more likely to choose your listing, whereas poor reviews will drive people away.

Asking a guest for a review is one of the trickiest components to owning or managing a vacation rental home business. As owners and managers ourselves, we've had a good share of luck getting our guests to leave reviews, and quite thorough and well-written reviews, too. How do we do it? We started by meeting and exceeding our guest's expectations and some guests were naturally moved to write a...