How to Be Wheelchair & Handicap Compliant in a Short-Term Rental: ADA Compliance & Design- with LeAnne Lavender We believe that true superhosts should endeavor to serve all guests, but sometimes, you just don’t know what you don’t know – so, today, we are going to learn about how to make a short-term rental space […]

All the Ways to Make Airbnb Your Side Hustle You don’t even have to own property to make Airbnb your side hustle or be part of the short-term rental industry – there are so many roles that need to be filled, and that means there are lots of opportunities and options! Whether you are interested […]

Short-Term Renting Your RV or Travel Trailer- with Nick Karakaian We’ve spent most of our show up to this point talking about Airbnb – but, today, we want to introduce you to some other short-term rental platforms that cater to a very specific niche: rentinting out your RV! So, Sarah’s husband Nick returns to discuss what […]

Convincing Your Partner to Airbnb- with Nick Karakaian If you are in a relationship, you can’t just start letting strangers stay at your house – even if they’re helping you pay your rent or mortgage! You have to make sure it’s cool with your partner, first (and your landlord!). So, today, Sarah invited her husband, […]

Holiday Tips for Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Hosts (& Holiday Horror Stories) With Summer in full swing, we wanted to touch on something that all Airbnb and short-term rental hosts need to consider: holidays! So, today, we’re going to share our tips for both taking a holiday for yourself and giving your guests that are […]

Properly: A Turnover Solution for Small Co-Hosts and Big Property Managers (with guest Tammi Sims) Even if you don’t own property, you can still be part of the short-term rental industry by managing properties for other people who want to take advantage of platforms like Airbnb but don’t have the time. It’s been a really […]

What it Takes to be a Superhosting Power Couple- with Tia Brown and Kyle Brown We met two amazing young entrepreneurs, Tia Brown and Kyle Brown, at a local Airbnb meetup recently – and they probably didn’t even get two sentences out of their mouths before we fell head over heels for these two! So, […]

Hosting an Airbnb Experience: Why It’s a Great Opportunity & How to Host like a Boss – with Ria Greiff (Episode 19) Ria Greiff is a radio personality, podcast host, and Airbnb Experience host expert! So she doesn’t just talk the talk – she walks the walk, and she has some great advice to help […]

The Box Hop: A Container Airbnb – with Emily Britt & Seth Britt (Episode 18) We’ve been spying on today’s guests on Instagram for a long time (@theboxhop – check it out), and we are so excited to finally be able to chat with them!! Emily and Seth Britt live in Columbus, and they love […]

Restoring The Kettle House in Galveston & Hosting DIY/HGTV’s Big Texas Fix – with Ashley Cordray & Michael Cordray (Episode 17) Ashley Cordray and Michael Cordray own a real estate renovation company that specializes in restoring homes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They are working with homes near the brink of destruction […]

Keep it Tidy: Laundry, Cleaning Supplies, & Residential Vs. Short-Term Cleaners with Chris Carlone (Episode 16) We’re talking to Chris Carlone from TidyHost, an automated housekeeping solution exclusively for short-term rentals. We’ve talked about it on the show before, but keeping your rental spaces clean is a non-negotiable – no exceptions! Resources: Are you ready to […]

Annette + Sarah (Episode 15) Together, we’ve hosted more than 2,000 guests throughout our careers – and we’ve learned a lot, but let us tell you, we definitely stumbled a few times along the way! So, today, we’re going to share the five things we WISH we had known when we started building our short-term […]

Pivoting From Long-Term Rentals to Short-Term Rentals with Superhost Christine Kimball (Episode 14) Superhost Christine Kimball owns The Corner House in Columbus, and today, we talk about why she pivoted from long-term rentals to short-term rentals – and why she loves it! Resources:

How Business Travelers Make a Great Opportunity for Repeat Guests (Episode 12) People traveling for business make great guests: they almost never wreck your place, they’re often more concerned about convenience than saving a few bucks, and best of all, they can become repeat guests! Today, we talk about how you can make your space […]

Our Interview with Airbnb Super Guest Hayden Lee (Episode 11) Today, instead of talking to a Super Host about what they’ve done to create an incredible experience on Airbnb, we’re talking to a Super Guest! Hayden Lee is the host of Travel Stories Podcast, and he’s been traveling pretty much full-time since 2013. He recently […]

The 100-Year-Old Granville Barn with Elliott May (Episode 10) We recently had the opportunity to check out Elliott and Lauren May’s renovated 100-year-old barn. We talk all about why they decided to renovate the space, what went into doing that, how they’re making money off of the space in addition to renting it out on […]

Leaving a Career to be an Airbnb Host with Superhost Patti Whalen (Episode 9) We hit the road again, and we came back with some great memories and a great conversation with Superhost Patti Whalen! We discuss Patti’s fact-finding expeditions to Airbnbs in Europe, the long history between women and B&Bs, following the rules, furnishing […]

The Pittsburgh Tiny House with Superhost Casey Smith (Episode 8) Annette and Sarah just came back from a road trip, and we had the opportunity to sit in Pittsburgh’s only tiny home! So today, we talk to superhost Casey Smith about how the tiny home became his first Airbnb listing (and his future plans for […]

Listing Your Space on Airbnb: Starting an Airbnb 101 Today, we walk you through a real listing, step by step. We cover what you need to have to start the process, what you need to know about the prompts that come up, and share the answers to some questions that have come up in our […]

Cleaning: Starting an Airbnb 101 We’re passionate about cleanliness in our short-term rental spaces because we KNOW this is a difference-maker. When we talk with other people about Airbnb, the two topics that come up most often are, one, it didn’t look like the pictures and, two, it wasn’t clean. It’s a little disheartening that […]

Professional Photography: Starting an Airbnb 101 Photography is probably the most important thing you put out there when you start to list on Airbnb, so today, we’re going to offer our tips and tricks for what to shoot and where to find a photographer. Resources: