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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: Should You Allow Bounce Houses At Your Airbnb? Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Ingrid from Columbus asks: What is your advice on guests wanting to bring rentals to our property, […]

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The Key to Direct Booking Success with Kerri Gibson Today you’ll hear from a woman who left behind her corporate career for hosting. While it’s hard to do, we’ve heard that story before. But here’s a story you haven’t heard; she made it her priority to get 70% direct booking, and in this episode, shares […]

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Hosting Hotline: Pawsome Hosts, Tips to Make Your Airbnb Pet-Friendly Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. This week’s question: What advice and information do you have for hosting pets; specifically dogs? Thanks to […]

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Unlocking Airbnb Success: Maximize Revenue and Bookings with Intellihost Who doesn’t want to book more guests? Jeff Brown is a self proclaimed data geek. He co-founded Loma Homes, a vacation rental company that focuses on unique experiences and themes. Jeff saw the need for better data to optimize his properties and therefore created IntelliHost as […]

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Hosting Hotline: Finding the Best Market For Your Airbnb Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Zach asks: What tools do you use when researching potential short-term rentals to help influence a purchasing decision […]

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From Teardown to HGTV: Inside Andi Diamond’s 100-Day Beachfront Hotel Renovation Andi Diamond Bennett is an on-the-go mom of two, wife, portrait photographer, co-owner of 10 STRs, and co-owner of Sunburst Inn which was just renovated and featured on HGTV’s 100 Day Dream Home: Beachfront Hotel. She lives in Tampa, FL and her properties are […]

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Hosting Hotline: Listing A Charming (But Noisy!) Unit for Families Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Today’s question: I’m going to start listing my house’s mother-in-law suite on Airbnb. But, it’s a daylight […]

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Navigating the Challenges of Letting Your Team Members Go Letting go of team members is never easy, no matter how long you’ve been with them. It’s always hard. In this episode, we’re going to unpack a situation that we had recently when we had to part ways with some of our team members. We want […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: There is Suspicious Activity at my Neighbor’s House. What Can I Do? Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Kim asks: What should I do if the neighbor of my short-term rental […]

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Stay Cool this Summer: 7 Tips for Preparing Your Property for The Season Summer is around the corner, and it’s about to be a super busy season for not only your personal life, but for your rental business. Today, we’re going over the Top 7 things you should think about to prepare for the busy […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: How Have You Had To Pivot In Your Airbnb Business? Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Latisha asks: My husband and I have a short term rental in Louisiana. We have […]

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Unveiling the Secrets of HGTV with Sarah Karakaian Calling all HGTV lovers! If you’re obsessed with HGTV competition shows, or are hoping to be cast on one yourself, you’re going to love this episode. We’re switching things up as Annette interviews Sarah on what it was like to compete on HGTV’s show Beach Flip in […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: Mastering Dynamic Pricing and Modified Bookings Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Today’s question: We often have guests who will edit their booking to add an extra night, but because of […]

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The Real Estate Robinsons: Forging A Partnership In Business & In Life Tony & Sara Robinson are a husband and wife duo turned business partners and have built a presence on social media as STR experts. They went from climbing the corporate ladder to now managing a multi-million dollar STR portfolio in a span of […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: How Should I Price my Parent-Child Listing? Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Angela asks: How should I price parent-child listings? I have three specific questions: 1. Do I price the […]

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Annette + Sarah (Episode 253) Today, we are going to share with you our top seven favorite apps that we use in our own hosting business. We’ll cover why we love this technology and how we’ve leveraged it for our own properties. And, each app is linked below with a special offer just for our […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: Marketing Your Airbnb: Instagram 101 Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Pam asks: We’re new in our hosting journey and need to start marketing. What kind of content should we be […]

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Behind The Scenes Of A Large-Scale Property Management Company Today we’re giving you an insider’s view of a rockstar manager who is running a ton of rentals and has so much valuable experience and data to share. Whether you’re managing your own property, looking to partner with a management company or simply want to learn […]

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Airbnb Hosting Hotline: Help for Short-Term Rental Hosts

Hosting Hotline: How To Hire Inspectors For Your Airbnb Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Greer asks: I’m looking to hire inspectors to help with the cleaning process and get some work off […]

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Maximizing Revenue: Insights on Dynamic Pricing Strategies with Andrew Kitchell We are so excited today to have Andrew Kitchell, the CEO and founder of Wheelhouse, a revenue management platform that serves leading professional operators in short-term rental, vacation rental, corporate rental  & boutique hotel spaces on the podcast today. Andrew has 10 years of experience […]

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Hosting Hotline: Parent-Child Listings for Neighboring Properties Welcome back to the Hosting Hotline! This is an Ask Me Anything where each week we’ll answer your questions on Airbnb, STRs, real estate, and everything in between. Blue Sky Villas asks: What do you recommend for a parent-child listing strategy if my neighbor wants us to manage […]

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