Best Episodes of Vacation Rental Success

VRS555 - Sustainable Stays: Rachel Parsons and the New Forest Escapes Revolution

This episode is sponsored by Lodgify, an all-in-one solution that will help you start, manage, and grow your short-term rental business. > Click here to visit Lodgify.com to start your free trial today Today’s guest is on a mission to solve in

VRS554 - From Tape Charts to Technology: A 30-Year Journey with Valerie Hawkins of Perdido Realty Vacations

14 days ago 58m 12s

This episode is sponsored by Lodgify, an all-in-one solution that will help you start, manage, and grow your short-term rental business. > Click here to visit Lodgify.com to start your free trial today In a thirty-year period, every industry w

VRS553 - Team Training to Help Your Vacation Rental Company THRIVE

21 days ago 50m 44s

In this special episode of the podcast, we’re diving into a topic that’s not only close to our hearts, but poised to transform the vacation rental property management industry: the THRIVE Training System. Designed to elevate business performa

VRS552 - Beyond SNL - How Professional Vacation Rental Design Brings A Competitive Edge

28 days ago 49m 37s

A recent SNL skit highlighted the phenomenon termed ‘airspace’ in a 2020 Financial Times article. The generic blend of white walls, grey upholstery, IKEA furniture and HomeGoods artwork, commonly found in Airbnbs across the world, is getting s

VRS551 - How to Maintain Your Property Rights

Mar 20th, 2024 50m 24s

During our SSTIR Crazy Month Rolf Blizzard from Atlantic Realty in the Outer Banks said… “If you don’t have regulations in place, or are not currently dealing with regulation issues, know that it is coming to your location”. For many property m

VRS550 - The Foundation of Trust: How Beach Getaways Thrives on Core Values with Deb Furlong

Mar 13th, 2024 48m 43s

Successful companies in the vacation rental business have defined their core values and strive to shape their culture and guide their decision-making processes by them. In this episode, first in a series of interviews with property managers o

VRS549 - SSTIR Crazy Month: Safety, Sustainability, Trust, Insurance, and Regulations

Mar 6th, 2024 51m 7s

We’ve just wrapped up SSTIR Crazy Month after 5-weeks of focusing on the core elements of our business that tend to be sidelined in conferences and summits. For the month of February, we talked about Safety, Sustainability, Trust, Insurance an

VRS548 - Beyond the Stay: Crafting Sustainable Vacation Experiences with Marc Ribail

Feb 28th, 2024 49m 17s

Do people really think about their impact on the environment when they go on vacation? Do they actively seek out locations and properties that clearly state their sustainability features? Reports and statistics are telling us that Gen Z is th

VRS547 - From Grass Roots to the Corridors of Power - Getting Active in Short-Term Rental Advocacy with Rolf Blizzard

Feb 21st, 2024 56m 40s

If you don’t already have local or state legislation in place to regulate your short-term rental business, it’s either in progress or it’s coming, because it’s not a matter of if your area gets regulated for short-term rentals. It’s when. This

VRS546 - Insuring Success: Proactive Risk Management for Property Managers

Feb 14th, 2024 1h

Insurance often takes a back seat in conversations about building a successful short-term rental property management business, but it has such critical importance, we have to pay more attention to it. When we do discuss it, it’s often to compla

VRS545 - From Trust Signals to 5-Star Reviews: Strategies to Elevate Your Vacation Rental Business

Feb 7th, 2024 57m 46s

Trust is at the core of everything we do in this business, and there’s no-one better to talk about this than Chris Maughan of I-PRAC. He has been studying trust for more than 25 years and in this episode shines a spotlight on its paramount imp

VRS544 - How to Master Guest Screening For Your Short Term Rentals: The Key to Protecting Your Business

Jan 31st, 2024 51m 54s

Do we need to know our guests? They book, pay, arrive, stay a while, leave, and we hope that all will go well, the property will be respected and there won’t be a charge-back. That is not always the case though, and while we can expect most o

VRS543 - Evolving Mom & Pop - A New Definition of the Vacation Rental Business with Matt Landau

Jan 24th, 2024 56m 2s