Short Term Rental Success Stories

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 with HOAs that doubled their rental count.

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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.

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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 manager, how to please the OTA algorithms, and lessons to share from growing a YouTube channel to around 1 Million Subscribers.

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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 marketing strategist for Beach House Rentals, why it's so important to building brand equity, the pros and cons of Airbnb and OTAs on the industry, what it takes to build a 100% referral and repeat guest vacation rental business and more.

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Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to travel all around the world, stay at Airbnb's, and find opportunities to invest in the local area?

In this success story, I speak with Kate Birtch, who over the course of 6 years has purchased and managed 6 properties ranging from Hawaii, Vietnam, Texas, and Cape Town South Africa.

Kate, who runs a successful short term rental insurance startup called Property Protect, has been able to travel and find opportunities in foreign countries to Airbnb.

Kate is an opportunist who likes to identify herself as a digital nomad. She is a big believer that anyone who is interested in investing overseas should do it as she has also found success in foreign short term rental management.