Real Estate Investing & the Power of Communities with Stacey St. John Stacey St. John is a boss babe who was bitten by the STR bug and never looked back. While working for a global consulting firm, she fell into the real estate game by accident. After a few short months of renting out that […]

Our Best Episodes of 2021 We’ve reached the end of the year! 2021 felt like we were finding our way again, but we have high hopes for 2022. As a way of looking back over how far we’ve come during the past 365 days, we want to run down the top 10 episodes from the […]

Operating an Overseas Vacation Rental Business with Lisa Byrne Managing vacation properties is hard work. Anticipating the needs of guests, taking care of things as issues arise, planning proactive and preventative work, there’s a lot to think about – even more so when you’re operating business from afar.  In this episode, we hear from a […]

Vacation Rental Women’s Summit Recap Rental Women’s Summit. It was impossible to see everything there was to see, so we enlisted the help of our Hosting Business Mastery Method members to divide and conquer! In this episode, we share our biggest takeaways from the event. A massive thank you to each and every one of […]

Creating an Identity for Your STR Property with Stacey Rase Stacey Rase is a Superhost from the New Orleans area who has found her passion in offering specialty stays at her short-term rentals. After raising four children, she is now an empty nester. She took on her first property three years ago on a gut […]

Looking at Airbnb’s November 9, 2021 Update in Detail In your short-term rental business, Airbnb is one of the biggest and best tools out there to get your spaces booked and busy. But as a small business owner, big platform updates can sneak past you, leaving you open for issues down the line. Don’t worry, […]

Renting Responsibly: Playing a Role in Your Local Regulation We’re continuing to bring our favorite speakers from the VRMA onto the show! This time, we’re joined by the wonderful Dana Lubner. As Head of Leadership Development at Rent Responsibly, Dana works closely with alliance leadership teams to build united voices at the local level. She […]

Buying with the End in Mind We are all about starting fast without overthinking things. You don’t have to have everything dialed in and figured out before you dive into your first short-term rental property. But one thing you should have some idea of at the very beginning, is the end. That is, what do […]

Lessons for STR Hosts from a Digital Nomad You can learn a lot from professional hosts, but what about a professional guest? In this episode, we reverse engineer what pulls at a potential guest’s heart strings when making a booking, and compare what we find to things we think or assume are their priorities. When […]

Growing a Business While Giving Back with Coconut Condos’ Angie Leone Continuing a series of interviews featuring our favorite speakers from the 2021 Vacation Rental Managers Association International Conference in San Antonio, Texas, we sit down with Angie Leong, owner and CEO of Coconut Condos, a vacation rental management company founded in 2011 on the […]

Revenue Management for the Rest of Us Heather Richer is a revenue management and distribution expert with over a decade of experience. She and her team have done revenue management for hotels, resorts, casinos, restaurants, and have been focusing on short-term rentals for the last 3+ years. We’ll discuss the fundamentals of revenue management for […]

Our Experiences at the 2021 Vacation Rental Managers Association International Conference in San Antonio, Texas We’re still reeling from our first in-person conference post COVID. It was great to spend time among so many great and like-minded people at the Vacation Rental Managers Association International Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Listen for a rundown of […]

Leveraging Local Expertise to Successfully Run Your Rental Business with Victoria Hawley Running multiple rental properties can be stressful… but managing them across multiple states? It’s still totally doable! Victoria is a Superhost who has been at it for over a year in her home city of Columbus, Ohio, and she and her husband recently […]

Take Your Property from Overlooked to Overbooked with Brian and Kati Green The number one thing that communicates to your potential guests and turns them to booked guests is effective photography. Kati and Brian Greene are “Superguests” who, after searching thousands of listings around the world, utilized that experience to create a service that optimizes […]

What to Do When a Potential Guest is Sending Warning Flags What can you do when your gut is sending you warning signs about a guest booking? While you don’t want to be individually vetting guests, you do want to make sure that they’re a good fit for your properties – especially if you have […]

Elevating Your STR with High-Vibe Design with Moira Sedgwick Moira Sedgwick is the James Beard Awards Director and founder of A Chalet Collective, a short term rental design, remote management, and consulting business. In this episode, listeners will hear about the convergence of hospitality and design. We will dive into why it’s important to create […]

Give & Grow: How Philanthropic Hosting Helps Communities & Businesses Alike with Chelsea Dunckley We all want to run a good business, but many of us want to do good in the world as well. Chelsea Dunckley of Digs Co. joins us as we explore how offering up your vacation rental in various philanthropic ways […]

A Wild Story: An Unorthodox Short-Term Rental Journey in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Dan Ferretti has spent most of his life acting, singing, and pursuing a career in theater. He supplements this unstable career choice by managing a rooftop baseball club at Wrigley Field in his hometown of Chicago, as well as working as a standardized […]

How to End a Property/Manager Relationship That’s Out of Alignment Last week we talked about how to find a property manager that’s a good fit for you. But what if you’re on the management side, you take a job and, down the line, you realize the property doesn’t align well with your brand? Whether you’re […]

11 Things to Look for When Hiring a Co-Host Even if you LOVE being a property manager, practically everyone hits a point where they realize “You know what? Maybe I don’t want to be managing all of my own properties forever.” When you get there, there’s only one thing to do: start hiring. But when […]

3 Things a Property Manager Can Focus on Now to Help Them Achieve the Best Exit with Jacobie Olin We’ve spent a lot of time focused on two phases of the property-owning process: buying and renting. But there’s another step we have had a chance to dive into yet, and that’s the selling process. Jacoby […]