0 Shares VRS174 – The Digital Welcome Book with Henry Bennett of YourWelcome Our industry is growing exponentially, and with it comes a wealth of apps, new platforms for advertising, physical gadgets and resources. It can be tough to sort through all of these and find the right one that suits your property and your needs. Our new series of product reviews aims to cut through the marketing […]
0 Shares YourWelcome – A Digital Vacation Rental Welcome Book We have talked at length, both in blog posts and on the podcast, about the importance of welcoming your guests to your property and how that first impression is invaluable to the outcome of a happy guest. One of our most popular blog posts (The Vacation Rental Welcome Book) covers the in’s and out of […]
0 Shares VRS115 – Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates (AVROA) with Rod Fitts I last spoke with today’s guest a year ago and we discussed his passion for the vacation rental industry and the background to his fledgling community organization, the American Vacation Rental Owners Association. At that time, Rod was working on yet another iteration of his website, and although he had a lot of motivation to […]
0 Shares VRS098 – Choosing the Right Vacation Rental Reservation System with Seb Grosjean One of my favourite parts of interviewing vacation rental professionals is that they are from around the world. And today’s guest called in from Greece so that’s another country to add to my geographical portfolio! Seb Grosjean could be called a hybrid developer because he’s a mix of software engineer, property manager and vacation rental […]
0 Shares VRS079 – Vacation Rental Tax Talk with Hot Spot Founder Rob Stephens Do you find your vacation rental taxes confusing? Would it help to have a little help with licensing and remitting the appropriate taxes? For us up here in the frozen north (not so frozen now since spring and humidity have arrived ) we are in a fortunate situation. We don’t pay tax on our vacation […]
0 Shares VRS073 – Scott Shatford Airbnb Super Host & Founder of Renting Your Place In 2002, Mike moved out to Ontario after leaving the British Army. He’d just finished a 6-month tour in Kosovo and at the age of 21 had seen enough grimness to last him a lifetime. He moved into one of our rental homes while he set up his property management business and began working for […]
0 Shares VRS071 – Airbnb Management Services with Guesty co-founder Amiad Soto It only seems a short while ago that Airbnb was seen as a platform for home owners who wanted to make a few dollars renting out a room in their place to a short-term tenant. In fact when I listen to the episodes of VRS with Jasper Ribbers of Get Paid for Your Pad and […]
0 Shares VRS062 – The American Vacation Rental Owners Association with Founder Rod Fitts I’ve been interested in the AVROA for a few years – the fledgling organization that aims to unite vacation rental owners in a common goal to support each other and become more independent of the behemoth listing sites. The founder, Rod Fitts, is the owner of several Gulf Shores condos and has a passion for […]
0 Shares VRS057 – Get Productive in 2015 with 7 Free Resources to Free up your time Mike and I sat down to reflect back on 2014, and share our plans for the new year. We agreed that information overload and overwhelm was a great part of our experience of the year so wanted to bring you the resources we’ve been using to chart our way through the myriad blogs, podcasts, digital […]
0 Shares 5 Super Useful Information Sharing Platforms for Your Vacation Rental Business Some years ago I had a ‘discussion’ with my better half about the value of using images in our pre-arrival information material which I thought were pretty boring and dense with too much text. He’s an ex-military man who spent a full career following protocols and standard operation procedures, so he felt the idea of […]
