Today I had the special honor of speaking with Kieran O'Neill & Billy Crock, founders of Hometime, an Australia based property management company with over 1500 rentals that uses a very unique model. In this episode, Kieran and Billy share how they started their management company and the unique strategy they are using today to scale, provide jobs, and give out free management client leads. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str100 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage....
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 15 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Brittany and Rudy Rudulph, owners of Rudulph Rents, a long term rental property management company that has 300+ properties in Birmingham Alabama, 11 of them being short term rentals. In this episode, Brittanny and Rudy share their experience having purchased a management company from their family, the reason they went from 500 to 300 rentals, the biggest mistakes investors make, what its like managing and master leasing properties in a rural market, and ...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Tracey Northcott, founder of Tokyo Family Stays, a short term rental business in Tokyo Japan with 15 properties mixed between master lease, managed, and owned. In this episode, Tracey shares the ins and outs of running a business in a foreign country as a non-native such as Japan, how to find out regulations & deal with legal if you don't know or speak the language, how to build trust in a community, the importance of branding and how it helped grow her...
Apr 02, 2021•54 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Heleena Sideris with Park City Lodging, a 37 year old vacation rental management company in Park City Utah that has 250 rentals under management. In this episode, Heleena shares how Park City Lodging founded and what it has seen over it's 37 year life in Park City Utah, what it's like operating a team of 75, the daily work flow during different seasons, how to include purpose driven work like sustainability into your business, and a secret strategy working ...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Today, I had the honor of speaking with Mike Quist, owner and operator of Kona Escape. Mike has 6 short term rental properties in Kona Hawaii that he's purchased & renovated and has been active in the space for about 30 days but has been able to fill his rentals and is seeing great success. In this episode, Mike shares the numbers on his properties, how he finds great deals on the Big Island of Kona, the lessons learned along the way, why he chose self management over hiring a property manag...
Mar 19, 2021•56 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Vince Perez, partner of Beach House Rentals, a vacation rental management company in Santa Cruz CA with 100 properties that are entirely booked through referrals and repeat guests without utilizing any OTAs. Vince is also the founder of fetch my guest, a marketing platform that gives independent vacation rental professionals complete control of their brand. In this episode Vince shares his story of moving from an Executive at Hyatt to becoming a partner and...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Today I had the special honor of speaking with Humza Zafar. A full-time Electrical Engineer and Canadian citizen operating out of Philadelphia. Humza has scaled from 0 to 15 master lease units in the past 3 months. In this episode, Humza shares his experience of BRRRR investing to student housing, how he discovered master leasing, what it's like operating one-bedroom and shared apartments, how he's scaled so quickly, and many lessons along the way. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str94 🌎...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Today I have the special honor of speaking with Na'ím Paymán, founder of Keezark, a short term rental company that started in 2015 and has scaled to around 400 units, a mix of managed, master leased, and owned, and the creator of Zeevou, a Short term rental PMS/Channel manager. In this episode, Na'im shares his journey of short term renting to basically survive and how that turned into a profitable business, how he scaled from 0 to 400 properties in a few short years, why he created Zeevou, as w...
Jan 21, 2021•58 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Joey Mure and Russ Morgan, founders of Wealth Without Wallstreet, a financial coaching service that focuses on teaching strategies such as Infinite Banking for preserving and generating wealth. Joey and Russ currently have 11 short term rentals, 10 being master leases, and 1 owned, which they have invested in from the capital of infinite banking. In this episode, Joey and Russ talk about what is infinite banking, who infinite banking is and is not for, and ...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Brad Greiner, CEO of Open Air Homes, a short-term rental management company based out of LA & Palm Springs that has 80 properties under management. In this episode, Brad shares his experience of being a filmmaker on a in a tough financial situation having to rent his luxury estate only to discover that his property was able to make a significant income. Brad shares how he eventually turned from struggling filmmaker to profitable luxury short term rental...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 5 min
In this episode I had the special honor of speaking with Dana Lubner. Dana helped scale her families Colorado based short term rental management company Effortless Rental Group as the director of sales and people ops. Dana has a lot of experience in marketing and branding and helped to take Effortless Rental past 100 properties under management. Dana is now working with Rent Responsibly a short term rental advocacy group. In this episode, Dana shares her experience of joining a growing managemen...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Chris Maughan, founder and CEO of AES Group, a corporate housing and event manager located in Cannes which is South of France. AES currently manages 250 rentals during it's largest events being Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Lions, and Cannes MIPIM. AES works with many of the largest corporations such as Google, MTV, Twitter, Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Spotify and more providing housing, event space, and yachts for the companies. In this episode, Chris takes us ...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Today, I had the honor of speaking with Megan McCrea. Megan is a short term rental operator in Nashville Tennessee with 6 properties, all of which she owns. Megan has been in the short term rental space for 4.5 years and had no prior experience to real estate investing or management prior to. In 2.5 years she was able to replace her income from her W-2 and go full time into management. Megan is also the president of NASTRA, the Nashville Short Term Rental Association, which has been instrumental...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today, I had the honor of speaking with Harold Lubberdink, CEO of Holiday.Rentals, a property management company with 1700 rentals out of Europe that currently covers: France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Croatia, and Lugano. In this episode, Harold shares his experience starting his short term rental management company back in 2006, his grassroots efforts of finding clients who did not even know that short term rentals were a thing, to scaling his business, building his own PMS, and eventually wh...
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Today, I had the honor of speaking with Greg Nanigian, a 34 year sales and sales management trainer that is affiliated with Sandler Training and author of the book Why People Buy. In this episode, Greg shares the Sandler Sales Methodology on how to sell without being "salesy", how to apply sales into growing your short term rental management business, why everyone is a salesperson, showing the technique of "negative reverse selling", and much more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str86 🌎...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 6 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Bob Garner, co-owner of Casal dei Fichi, an eco-friendly restored 6 unit farmhouse that overlooks the rolling hills of Le Marche in Italy. In this episode, Bob shares his experience of quitting the corporate rat race with his partner to pursue their dream of starting a traditional Bnb in the country side. Bob shares how he found this property, the process of restoring a farmhouse, and how he has made environmental consciousness and sustainability a key va...
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 15 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Terry Whyte from Anna Maria Beach Rentals, a vacation rental management company focused in Anna Maria Island Florida that currently has 30 properties under management, two of which are owned and 28 that are cohosted. In this episode, Terry shares his experience of 30 years of vacation rentals, how he has had to adapt from not having used any technology to becoming "The vacation rental software guy", and the common problems that he sees many vacation renta...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Christina Thoreson from Chattanooga Vacation Rentals, a full service management company with 23 properties. In this episode, Christina shares her experience of scaling her vacation rental business, her system for onboarding the right clients, the screening process for hiring full time housekeepers and more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str83 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://Shor...
Oct 29, 2020•55 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Kirby Atwell. Kirby is a real estate investor that has 6 short term rentals in Michigan City and has been switching his portfolio from long to short. In this episode, Kirby shares his reasons as to why he switched to short term, how he is able to find amazing deals that cashflow, and how he is able to short term rental properties in non "vacation destinations". 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str82 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shortter...
Oct 22, 2020•51 min
Today, I had the special honor of speaking with Dino Karic, CEO and founder of WalQinn, a short term rental management company based out of Croatia that has 130 properties total, 45 being master lease and 85 managed. Dino's portfolio ranges across Europe in locations like Brussels, Vienna, Zagreb, Porec, Sofia, a couple other countries I can't pronounce as well as Costa Rica. In this episode, Dino shares his experience of starting his company in 2018 and scaling to 130+ properties, his strategy ...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min
I had the honor of speaking with Steve Milo, founder and CEO of Vtrips, a full service vacation rental management company with over 1500 properties throughout the U.S. In this episode, Steve shares his journey from 0 to 1500 properties, how he grew his team, the strategy to increasing direct bookings, how Steve prices his properties, and the impact of advocacy on vacation and urban short term rental markets. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str80 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://s...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 10 min
I had the honor of speaking with Zac Rushton, co-owner of Great Dwellings, a short term rental management company based in DC. Great Dwellings has 80 managed and 10 master leases. In this episode, Zac shares his experience of joining Great Dwellings when they had 20 properties and stuck being unable to grow, and how by joining their team they were able to take on an additional 80 properties in a few short years. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str79 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 6 min
I had the honor of speaking with Darik Eaton, founder of Seattle Oasis Vacations, a management company that operates 30 units in the Seattle Washington area. Darik's portfolio currently consists of 28 managed and 2 master lease. In this episode, Darik shares his journey of starting his short term rental business using Craigslist, his battle and the outcome of fighting a condo association on their regulations, how he grew his portfolio inside of condos and HOAs, how he helped stop the city of Sea...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min
I had the honor of speaking with Alice Horn, CEO of My Villa Key, a vacation rental management company in the Orlando Florida area. My Villa Key has 80 properties under management. In this episode, Alice shares her journey and struggles of entrepreneurship when starting a company, how she positions her management company to help children on the autism spectrum and other development disabilities, and how she has been able to compete in the highly competitive Orlando market. 📝Show Notes https://s...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Ray Licardo. Ray is a short term rental operator based in the San Jose area. Ray has 10 total properties under management, 6 of them being master lease and 4 cohosted. In this episode, Ray shares his experience quitting his sales job to pursue short term rentals full time, how Ray pivoted his business to cater towards corporate rentals, and how he has been able to create a profitable business netting $700 - $1000 per property by only doing monthly rental...
Sep 03, 2020•54 min
Today I had the honor of speaking with Jennifer Frankenstein-Harris, CEO and founder of Great Ocean Condos, a vacation rental management company located in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Jennifer's company has grown to 265 rentals since 2008 and is grossing $6 million a year. In this episode, Jennifer shares her experience of falling into vacation rental management, what it was like to scale, the obstacles along the way, and her unique approach to growing her management company. 📝Show Notes https://shor...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 5 min
I had the special honor of speaking with TJ Tijani. TJ is a BRRRR investor and a STR manager based out of Houston area who has 14 units total, 7 which are owned and 7 master leased. In this episode, TJ shares his journey of BRRRR investing to master lease investing, how to stand out in a crowded market, and the costs associated with buy and hold investing vs master lease. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str74 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become...
Aug 21, 2020•58 min
In this episode, I have the special honor of speaking with Andrew LeBaron, founder of Buymoretime.com, a management service that charges as low as $99 a month for short term rentals as opposed to a revenue share model. In this episode, Andrew shares how he is able to keep costs so low for his services, his unique way of automating the business, his process for streamlining client onboarding, and how he has been able to outsource everything to virtual assistants. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsag...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 17 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Tom and Sofia Sharkey. Tom and Sofia are the owners of Lemon Tree BnB, a short term rental management company in Kansas City, MO. Tom and Sofia got started after buying their first personal home in a trendy area of town in 2018 which was quickly turned into their first STR. A year later they got their second property in the same neighborhood using the rental arbitrage strategy. Tom left his speech therapy career to pursue his dream of building wealth thro...
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 14 min
I had the special honor of speaking with Rich Munroe, founder of Diamond Edge Properties, a tax lien real estate investment company that has shifted it's focus to primarily short term rental management and master lease investing in the Atlanta, Georgia area. In this episode, Rich shares his experience of starting his real estate flipping company, how tax lien investing works, why the switch to focus on short term rental management, and why Rich's strategy involves acquiring the largest propertie...
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr