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Why Not A Hotel? A Guest and Homeowner’s Perspective: There’s No Place Like Home … Or Is There?

Since the late seventies our family has opted for vacation rental homes over hotels. We are well into the fourth generation of vacation rental...

Leading Proptech Company Guesty Appoints David Aber as CFO

Guesty recently announced the appointment of David Aber as Chief Financial Officer, pushing forth the travel and hospitality tech company’s continued global expansion as...

Meredith Hospitality Brands Inc. Expands to Mt Hood with Acquisition of Mt Hood Vacation Rentals

Meredith Hospitality Brands announced the recent acquisition of Mt Hood Vacation Rentals by its flagship brand, Meredith Lodging, this week.  A premier West Coast and...

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...

Analysis: “Reinventing” Vacation Rental Management by Alex Nigg

Vacasa isn’t reinventing property management. Vacasa (NASDAQ: VCSA) just had a blockbuster quarter. Q4 financial results were impressive, and the market rewarded its execution with...

Are you a Visionary without an Integrator at Your Vacation Rental Management Company?

Vacation rental management companies almost always start with humble beginnings and big visions for a better future. Some of us begin as “rent by...

HR 2022: Attracting Today’s New Workforce after the Resignation Tsunami and the Great Renegotiation

It goes without saying that today’s workforce expects something different than before. Both job seekers and employees are reassessing their employment, becoming more selective...
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Safety First: Evaluating and Addressing Safety Risks at Your Vacation Rentals

On an early January morning in 2021, a devastating fire broke out in a vacation rental home in Malibu where smoke alarms had not...

The Importance of the Guest Experience within Vacation Rental Operations: From the Back of the House to the Front

The concept of vacation rental property operations has evolved tremendously over the past few decades, developing from a collection of loosely defined tasks into...

YOUR Memory Factory: Creating Lifetime Memories for Guests with those They Cherish Most

Instead of manufacturing a physical product, your factories create something more important to most humans—lifetime memories with those they cherish most. Recently, while presenting hospitality...

OTAs: The End of Property Management as We Know It

  A $70 Billion Difference  A manager at one of the three big global listing platforms recently told me, “There is no doubt that rent-by-owner has...

Helping Your Guests Create Memories that Matter One Experience at a Time

A guest’s memories of a vacation can be different from their true experience and are sometimes shaped by a single event. That is why...

The Value of Asking Questions to the Guest Experience, Your Work Environment & Beyond

Questions are a critical foundation of all relationships that we experience in life. They are said to create learning or liking, and, in the...

Jeremy Gall Discusses Challenges & Opportunities: Where Is Vacation Rental Management Heading?

When we started Breezeway in 2016, few companies in the vacation rental ecosystem were talking about property care and operations. Managers were focused on...
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VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Laik Lepera, Director of Operations at Village Realty

Three seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is continuing to...

VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Julie Byrd, Vice President of Sales at Cabo Villas

Three seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is continuing to...

VRM Careerists: Seasoned VR Pro Gail Boisclair and How She’s Survived & Thrived in the Industry

VRM Intel is diving into the lives of the careerists among us: those managers who have made it over the river and through the...

Reinventing Your Business’ Front Line for a Better Guest Experience

The excited family pulls up to their rental home for a highly anticipated week of vacation. Everyone jumps out of the vehicle, and they...

Hand-to-Hand Combat: Winning the Battle for Direct Bookings

For years now, vacation rental companies have been fighting desperately to win back market share from third parties, such as online travel agencies (OTAs),...

Amid Unemployment Benefits & Hiring Struggles: How to Attract & Retain a Seasonal Workforce

The war for talent continues to plague businesses into summer 2021. Just one year ago in April and May, we saw unemployment rates in...

Sarah and T Podcast releases its 100th episode—and it matters

The Sarah and T Podcast dropped its 100th episode today, and enterprise-level vacation rental managers are better for it. Currently in its fifth season,...
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Property Management Newcomer Casiola: How their Fresh Look at the Industry is Making them Successful

This past February, I pulled into the driveway of my Orlando vacation rental around 9:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. It’s always unsettling to...

How Property Managers Can Capitalize on New ‘Revenge Travel’ Trends

The rebound of the travel industry in the United States is underway with guests around the country booking out vacation rentals for the summer...

Passing the Torch: Meyer Vacation Rentals Transfers Ownership To The Next Generation

Sheila Hodges, owner of SH Enterprises Inc. and Meyer Vacation Rentals, announced today that she is transferring ownership of the company to her daughter...

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