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Alexa Nota

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Alexa Nota is the co-founder and COO of Rent Responsibly. A journalist and marketer by trade, Alexa has served in many roles in the industry, including marketing director for a property management companies on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and Telluride, CO. She also served as vice president of VRM Intel where she reported on STR regulations around the country. Here she realized the need and passion for engaged local alliances and associations in order to create fair regulations and a secure home for vacation rentals in every destination's tourism economy. Together with David Krauss in 2019, she co-founded Rent Responsibly, a community-building and education platform for local vacation rental alliances. Learn more at RentResponsibly.org.

Rent Responsibly Launches A La Carte Support Services for Vacation Rental Alliances

New menu of services empowers local and state organizations to thrive at every stage and scale FORT WORTH, Texas, July 25, 2023 Today, Rent Responsibly announced...

Arizonans for Responsible Tourism Hosts Super Bowl Preparedness Campaign for Vacation Rental Operators

Pregame Prep initiative aids compliance with new local vacation rental ordinances and promotes responsible renting practices Glendale, AZ – Last week, Arizonans for Responsible Tourism...

Carrots and sticks: Vacation rentals and the creation of affordable, workforce housing

By Paris Achen More communities across the nation are coming up with creative solutions that leverage vacation rentals to boost affordable and workforce housing stocks. “As...

Rent Responsibly Launches New 2022 Partnerships and a New Virtual Conference Series for VRMs and Others

The new partnerships and events will accelerate professionalization and local vacation rental alliance building across the US  Today, Rent Responsibly announced five new companies have...

Property Managers And Owners Sue Honolulu County Over Bill 41

The Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance (HILSTRA) has filed a federal lawsuit against the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Department of Planning...

How 1999’s NC Vacation Rental Act is a Model for Today’s Regulations

Photo: Waterfront homes in Surf City, NC, courtesy Gene Gallin In 1994, the Conley family stepped onto their Emerald Isle vacation rental deck for a...

Honolulu City Council Bans Stays Under 90 Days Across Oahu

On Wednesday, April 13, Honolulu City Council voted 8-1 to pass Bill 41, an effective ban on vacation rentals across the island of Oahu. Most...
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Rent Responsibly and VRM Intel Launch Partnership to Lead Vacation Rental Regulatory Coverage and Education

Today, Rent Responsibly and VRM Intel announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to bring timely educational content and regulatory updates from across the United States to...

Lessons from the Auto Industry’s History Provide a Road Map for Regulatory Success in Short-Term Rentals

Growing up, we assumed the automobile has always been considered as American as apple pie. Then we looked a bit closer at the history...

Unlocking Travel for All: How VillaKey is Making Vacations Accessible for Families with Autism

“I got an opportunity just a couple weeks ago to spend some time with one of our families in Orlando,” said Alice Horn, founder...

Embracing the end-to-end guest experience: How Leslie Preston built Bachcare, New Zealand’s largest property management company

In 2003, Leslie Preston bought a vacation rental home in Hahei, New Zealand, a small beach community in the Coromandel region. When she began...

Carrying the Torch: 5 Generations of Vacation Rental Hospitality

When Walt Plimpton was 10 years old, his job was to tow a little red wagon from cabin to cabin collecting trash bins and...

The Opportunities In Between: Capturing the Niche Markets Others Don’t

There’s an old Irish blessing that goes, “May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it” (or so the...

Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites

As a landslide of new technology and OTA expansion barrels down the slopes of the vacation rental industry, some opportunities for growth become buried...
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Coming to a City near You: As vacation rentals grow in popularity, so do the regulations to stop them

The 2018 legislation season brought the vacation rental industry some high highs, low lows, and everything in between. Cities that had been embattled for...

In the Eye of the Storm: Lessons Learned in the Wake of Hurricanes Florence, Michael, and Others

Hurricane Florence Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday, September 14, then inched its way west into South Carolina as a tropical...

Podcast Roundup: VRMs Light Up the Airwaves with Direct Booking Discussions

Although the Second Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day is winding to a close, vacation rental managers, homeowners, and industry influencers are keeping the discussion...

UK Agency Addresses Misleading OTA Sales Tactics

Updated February 6, 2019 with statements from Expedia and Booking.com. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today it has taken action against Expedia,...

Property Managers Discuss Their OTA Distribution Strategies

Strategic distribution has become one of the hottest topics in the vacation rental industry. As the speed of OTA technology and policy changes increases,...

How Hotels Push Direct Bookings and Seek OTA Independence

As property managers and homeowners rally to promote direct bookings and build OTA independence, so too are the vacation rental industry's comrades in the...

Exceptional Stays Drives Direct Bookings with the Human Touch

“OTA independence is essential to our business strategy,” said Christina Casas, founder and CEO of Exceptional Stays. “We decided long ago that we had...
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Drop the Mic: A look behind the scenes with VRM podcasters Sarah Bradford and Tim Cafferty

Over the past year and a half, Sarah Bradford and Tim Cafferty have become household names in the vacation rental industry, thanks to their...

Vacation Rental Competition Show Comes to Netflix

Netflix users in the US can add another vacation rental reality series to their watch list: “Instant Hotel.” The Aussie reality competition show pits...

Emerald Coast by Owner Acquires DestinFlorida.com, Expands Direct Booking Effort

Emerald Coast by Owner (ECBYO.com) announced yesterday that it has acquired regional site DestinFlorida.com in an equity exchange for an undisclosed amount. Both sites...

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