0 Shares VRS170 – Practical Vacation Rental Investment with Michael Hamilton My guest today took his interest and knowledge of real estate investment and has turned it into a vacation rental business. With three properties currently listed on Airbnb & VRBO Michael Hamilton was about to fly off to North Carolina to close on the fourth, when I was able to talk to him from his […]
0 Shares VRS169 – Don’t Wear Flip Flops in the Jungle & Other Things Your Vacation Rental Guests Need to Know What could be better than exchanging a cold and snowy Ontario for 10 days in sunny Belize? Or Eleuthera, or Exuma, or Costa Rica, or Maui? For the past 7 years, we’ve taken a break in winter to enjoy the sunny south, and stayed in a different vacation rental every time. It’s been great, not […]
0 Shares VRS168 – The French Connection with Vacation Rentals in Nice and Paris Many vacation rental owners manage their properties from a distance but most have just one, or a few in one location. Ralph Morehouse owns an apartment in Paris, one in Nice, and manages three others. All from his home base in Houston, Texas, which goes to show you can do this business from anywhere as […]
0 Shares VRS167 – A Year In The Making with Sherene McLellan It was a long-time goal for Utah resident, Sherene and her husband John. One day they would buy a vacation rental property and from the get-go they wanted it to be a professional business. No short cuts for these guys. They looked at different places in their beautiful state, and finally settled on Kanab – […]
0 Shares VRS166 – Vacation Rental Travels with Beth Caro Carson Editor of the VR industry’s only online magazine for travellers, Beth Carson is a seasoned traveler (45 countries stamped in her passport!) and knows travel from both sides of the check in desk. Beth dishes about the ins and outs of running a magazine, her gift to vacation rental owners, and delves into surviving one […]
0 Shares VRS165 – Hard Lessons Learned with Matt Landau When Matt Landau closed on a deal he couldn’t ignore and became the proud owner of what is now Los Cuatros Tulipanes in Casco Viejo, Panama, he didn’t appreciate that over the next few years he would earn the equivalent of an MBA in vacation rentals. He learned a lot about the neighbourhood, the people […]
0 Shares VRS164 – Facebook Marketing for Vacation Rentals with April Burns and David Thompson Social media experts David Thompson and April Burns fromInterCoastal Net Designs, join me in this episode to talk about the importance of engagement on social media for vacation rental professionals. We’re often told to ‘Be Everywhere’ and it’s tough to keep up. Posting on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and even Google+ is time consuming and […]
0 Shares VRS163 – Collaboration and The Vacation Rental Guest Experience with Alex Nigg from Properly If you went to the Airbnb Open this year it’s likely you’ll have come across Alex Nigg and Tammi Simms from Properly. Or you may have met them at last year’s Vacation Rental Success Summit or a Home Away event. This is because one or the other, or both of them show up just about […]
0 Shares VRS162 – The Five Things You Must Do For Vacation Rental Success in 2017 With the industry growing exponentially, professional owners have to be on their toes to manage the changes that will come at them from all angles. Whether its dealing with OTAs moving the goal posts yet again, or the potential of short term rental legislation, or the massive competition we’ll experience, there is a challenge on […]
0 Shares VRS161 – 2016 A Year in My World of Vacation Rentals What a year this has been! From launching the Vacation Rental Formula, to being part of the team behind the mega-successful Vacation Rental Success Summit, to having the best year ever in our management company, it’s been a blast. In this episode I share the ups and downs of 2016 as we navigated a full-scale […]
