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Inhabit IQ Appoints New Leader for Digital Marketing Services Group

Dawn Yeskulsky to expand services and build on the company’s legacy of customer-focused results. Inhabit IQ®, a unique collective of tech-forward products serving the residential,...

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...

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...
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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...

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 to Educate & Improve your Team’s Performance

Operational efficiency is difficult to measure, but imperative to your business’ success.  Ben Edwards of Weatherby Consulting offered a virtual session in March as part...
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Staffing: Internal vs. External Field Teams

Few would argue against the statement that a vacation rental operator’s most critical function is handled by the cleaning and maintenance teams. What can...

The Importance of Guest Communication to Vacation Rental Management

“Vacation rental managers have historically taken a reactionary approach to in-stay communication: leave the guest alone and be ready to respond when needed. Today,...

Operational Trends in Vacation Rentals: How to Cope with More Work & Less Time

“Without a doubt, the pandemic has made the job of property managers harder. There’s an increased emphasis, quite rightly, on standards and cleanliness, and...

How to Accelerate Growth in Vacation Rentals through Owner Acquisition

“It’s clear that there is still so much room for growth in the vacation rental industry. Demand isn’t the issue, and guests are increasingly...

Property Managers as Hospitality Providers and the Future of Service

There’s a push-pull situation emerging in vacation home rentals where operators must determine the right balance between how much touch-free service they can or...

VRM Careerists: Cort Roussel

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is diving into...

VRM Careerists: Kelly Keys Wilson

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is diving into...
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VRM Careerists: Ryan Christopher

  Four 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: Kathleen Holmes

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  If there is one universal truth about vacation rental managers, it’s...

Takeaways from Airbnb’s First Earnings Call as a Publicly Traded Company

Yesterday, Airbnb held its first earnings call as a publicly traded company following the release of its Q4-2020 financials. For vacation rental managers listing...

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