Share VRS299 – Born Into The Vacation Rental Business with Jodi Taylor Refosco When you are born to parents who run a vacation rental business and your first real job is cleaning hot tubs in rentals you are likely to learn a lot about the industry from the ground up. Having that sort of experience is what prompted Jodi Taylor Refosco to launch Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & […]
Share VRS296 – Mash-Up with Matt Landau of Vacation Rental Marketing Blog It’s been a while since I last chatted with my buddy, Matt Landau and a lot has been going on since then. So this week we catch up with a few of the great blog posts featured recently on VRMB. In particular, I wanted to talk about the Keystone Awards for the top suggested software; […]
Share VRS295 – Take the Pledge & Short Term Rent Responsibly with Dave Krauss of Noise Aware “The Rent Responsibly initiative began in late 2016 when the NoiseAware Team rented a Winnebago to drive from Seattle to Los Angeles, stopping at City Halls and meeting with short-term vacation rental advocates along the way. The mission then is the same as the mission today: to advocate, educate and celebrate the positive impacts of […]
Share VRS294 – Are You Covered If A Vacation Rental Guest Makes A Liability Claim? The moment we exchange our property (or a part of it) for money, we are operating a business, and that brings with it all manner of risks. And if you don’t cover yourself for those risks it could become very costly – in fact, it could mean the loss of your business altogether….and more. We […]
Share VRS273 – 5 Mistakes That VRBO’s Often Make (2019) A few years ago I wrote a blog post that went on to be one of the most popular on Cottage Blogger. It was called 10 Mistakes VRBO Owners Often Make. It listed a number of things owners frequently did that could be detrimental to their rental business – and downright catastrophic if they did […]
Share VRS214 – How to Break Free and Become Independent of Your Own Business Most property managers start out as one or two-man bands; managing everything in the rental process. They will source and onboard new owners; create listings and manage rates, communicate with guests and answer every question that’s asked. They cover all the bases and often find, even when they start to take on staff, that they […]
Share VRS202 – Survival of the Fittest With Steve Milo Of Vacation Rental Pros In 2006, Steve Milo of Vacation Rental Pros had 15 properties under management and a lot of ambition to grow his company. By 2015 when I interviewed him last on VRS094, VRPs inventory had increased to just over 900. In this episode, Steve describes how that number has doubled in the past two years with […]
Share VRS190 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part Two Part 2 of the Adventures of Travelling Matt (Landau) takes us to Italy, and Matt’s journey to Rome, the Umbrian town of Guardea and Le Marche in the eastern Italian region of Ancona. Matt’s telling of the trip takes us to out of the way places and shares his experiences of visiting a renowned silversmith’s […]
Share VRS188 – The Vacation Rental Adventures of Travelling Matt Landau – Part One Have you ever been a guest in a vacation rental in a location you are unfamiliar with? I’ve asked this question of many home owners to find that most have never experienced what it’s like to be a guest. And you should do this, at least once. Owners will often say they’ve stayed in their […]
Share VRS187 – The 2017 Vacation Rental Hospitality Survey with David Jacoby of Hostfully The death knell of property managers may be sounding if some vacation rental experts are to be believed. Martin Picard of VReasy talked of this at a VR Tech conference in Rome earlier this month. OTA’s are taking over much of what a property manager does, from marketing properties to an array of consumers; offering […]
