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I had the special honor of speaking with Brittany and Rudy Rudulph, owners of Rudulph Rents, a long term rental property management company that has 300+ properties in Birmingham Alabama, 11 of them being short term rentals. In this episode, Brittanny and Rudy share their experience having purchased a management company from their family, the reason they went from 500 to 300 rentals, the biggest mistakes investors make, what its like managing and master leasing properties in a rural market, and theirs reason why Birmingham may be the next hot market. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str99 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Tracey Northcott, founder of Tokyo Family Stays, a short term rental business in Tokyo Japan with 15 properties mixed between master lease, managed, and owned. In this episode, Tracey shares the ins and outs of running a business in a foreign country as a non-native such as Japan, how to find out regulations & deal with legal if you don't know or speak the language, how to build trust in a community, the importance of branding and how it helped grow her business, and how she was able to pivot her business when a country dependent on foreign travel gets locked down. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str98 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Heleena Sideris with Park City Lodging, a 37 year old vacation rental management company in Park City Utah that has 250 rentals under management. In this episode, Heleena shares how Park City Lodging founded and what it has seen over it's 37 year life in Park City Utah, what it's like operating a team of 75, the daily work flow during different seasons, how to include purpose driven work like sustainability into your business, and a secret strategy working with HOAs that doubled their rental count. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str97 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Mike Quist, owner and operator of Kona Escape. Mike has 6 short term rental properties in Kona Hawaii that he's purchased & renovated and has been actively in the space for about 30 days but has been able to fill his rentals and is seeing great success. In this episode, Mike shares the numbers on his properties, how he finds great deals on the Big Island of Kona, the lessons learned along the way, why he chose self management over hiring a property manager, how to please the OTA algorithms, and lessons to share from growing a YouTube channel to around 1 Million Subscribers. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str96 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Vince Perez, partner of Beach House Rentals, a vacation rental management company in Santa Cruz CA with 100 properties that are entirely booked through referrals and repeat guests without utilizing any OTAs. Vince is also the founder of fetch my guest, a marketing platform that gives independent vacation rental professionals complete control of their brand. In this episode Vince shares his story of moving from an Executive at Hyatt to becoming a partner and marketing strategist for Beach House Rentals, why it's so important to building brand equity, the pros and cons of Airbnb and OTAs on the industry, what it takes to build a 100% referral and repeat guest vacation rental business and more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str95 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the special honor of speaking with Humza Zafar. A full-time Electrical Engineer and Canadian citizen operating out of Philadelphia. Humza has scaled from 0 to 15 master lease units in the past 3 months. In this episode, Humza shares his experience of BRRRR investing to student housing, how he discovered master leasing, what it's like operating one-bedroom and shared apartments, how he's scaled so quickly, and many lessons along the way. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str94 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I have the special honor of speaking with Na'ím Paymán, founder of Keezark, a short term rental company that started in 2015 and has scaled to around 400 units, a mix of managed, master leased, and owned, and the creator of Zeevou, a Short term rental PMS/Channel manager. In this episode, Na'im shares his journey of short term renting to basically survive and how that turned into a profitable business, how he scaled from 0 to 400 properties in a few short years, why he created Zeevou, as well as his strategic moves the hotel space. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str93 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Joey Mure and Russ Morgan, founders of Wealth Without Wallstreet, a financial coaching service that focuses on teaching strategies such as Infinite Banking for preserving and generating wealth. Joey and Russ currently have 11 short term rentals, 10 being master leases, and 1 owned, which they have invested in from the capital of infinite banking. In this episode, Joey and Russ talk about what is infinite banking, who infinite banking is and is not for, and how you can invest into short term rentals through infinite banking. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str92 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Brad Greiner, CEO of Open Air Homes, a short-term rental management company based out of LA & Palm Springs that has 80 properties under management. In this episode, Brad shares his experience of being a filmmaker on a in a tough financial situation having to rent his luxury estate only to discover that his property was able to make a significant income. Brad shares how he eventually turned from struggling filmmaker to profitable luxury short term rental management, how he scaled his business, the challenges of a city that changes its regulation, how to find the right management clients, and more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str91 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

In this episode I had the special honor of speaking with Dana Lubner. Dana helped scale her families Colorado based short term rental management company Effortless Rental Group as the director of sales and people ops. Dana has a lot of experience in marketing and branding and helped to take Effortless Rental past 100 properties under management. Dana is now working with Rent Responsibly a short term rental advocacy group. In this episode, Dana shares her experience of joining a growing management company during a booming time in Colorado, how she was able to speed past the competition, what it takes to market and brand your management company, as well as what it's like working in an advocacy group that is hired by companies like Airbnb, VRBO and other OTAs in their effort to work with local regulators. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str90 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Chris Maughan, founder and CEO of AES Group, a corporate housing and event manager located in Cannes which is South of France. AES currently manages 250 rentals during it's largest events being Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Lions, and Cannes MIPIM. AES works with many of the largest corporations such as Google, MTV, Twitter, Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Spotify and more providing housing, event space, and yachts for the companies. In this episode, Chris takes us behind the scenes of what its like working with and building a corporate housing company at scale, the unique STR Broker model, how large corporations work with vendors, and much more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str89 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today, I had the honor of speaking with Megan McCrea. Megan is a short term rental operator in Nashville Tennessee with 6 properties, all of which she owns. Megan has been in the short term rental space for 4.5 years and had no prior experience to real estate investing or management prior to. In 2.5 years she was able to replace her income from her W-2 and go full time into management. Megan is also the president of NASTRA, the Nashville Short Term Rental Association, which has been instrumental in bringing together hosts and helping to make changes to Nashville's turbulent regulation changes. Without Megan and the association Nashville would be a very different place for hosts so thank you for your work. In this episode, Megan shares her experience of falling into short term rentals, the challenges of leaving a well paid career to pursue full time management, how Nashville's regulations have been affected, and what it's like being the president of a short term rental association. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str88 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit  

Today, I had the honor of speaking with Harold Lubberdink, CEO of Holiday.Rentals, a property management company with 1700 rentals out of Europe that currently covers: France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Croatia, and Lugano. In this episode, Harold shares his experience starting his short term rental management company back in 2006, his grassroots efforts of finding clients who did not even know that short term rentals were a thing, to scaling his business, building his own PMS, and eventually what led him to using a franchise model to scale his company. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str87 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today, I had the honor of speaking with Greg Nanigian, a 34 year sales and sales management trainer that is affiliated with Sandler Training and author of the book Why People Buy. In this episode, Greg shares the Sandler Sales Methodology on how to sell without being "salesy", how to apply sales into growing your short term rental management business, why everyone is a salesperson, showing the technique of "negative reverse selling", and much more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str86 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit Link for show notes: Buy Greg's book, Why People Buy https://amzn.to/36KAgjD Attend a free sales workshop with Greg www.shorttermsage.com/salesworkshop

I had the special honor of speaking with Bob Garner, co-owner of Casal dei Fichi, an eco-friendly restored 6 unit farmhouse that overlooks the rolling hills of Le Marche in Italy. In this episode, Bob shares his experience of quitting the corporate rat race with his partner to pursue their dream of starting a traditional Bnb in the country side. Bob shares how he found this property, the process of restoring a farmhouse, and how he has made environmental consciousness and sustainability a key value in the property and guest experience. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str85 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

I had the special honor of speaking with Terry Whyte from Anna Maria Beach Rentals, a vacation rental management company focused in Anna Maria Island Florida that currently has 30 properties under management, two of which are owned and 28 that are cohosted. In this episode, Terry shares his experience of 30 years of vacation rentals, how he has had to adapt from not having used any technology to becoming "The vacation rental software guy", and the common problems that he sees many vacation rental managers making. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str84 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today I had the honor of speaking with Christina Thoreson from Chattanooga Vacation Rentals, a full service management company with 23 properties. In this episode, Christina shares her experience of scaling her vacation rental business, her system for onboarding the right clients, the screening process for hiring full time housekeepers and more. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str83 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

I had the special honor of speaking with Kirby Atwell. Kirby is a real estate investor that has 6 short term rentals in Michigan City and has been switching his portfolio from long to short. In this episode, Kirby shares his reasons as to why he switched to short term, how he is able to find amazing deals that cashflow, and how he is able to short term rental properties in non "vacation destinations". 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str82 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

Today, I had the special honor of speaking with Dino Karic, CEO and founder of WalQinn, a short term rental management company based out of Croatia that has 130 properties total, 45 being master lease and 85 managed. Dino's portfolio ranges across Europe in locations like Brussels, Vienna, Zagreb, Porec, Sofia, a couple other countries I can't pronounce as well as Costa Rica. In this episode, Dino shares his experience of starting his company in 2018 and scaling to 130+ properties, his strategy for acquiring master lease and cohost units, how he has been able to scale operations across multiple borders, and what it's like scaling his business in Europe. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str81 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit

I had the honor of speaking with Steve Milo, founder and CEO of Vtrips, a full service vacation rental management company with over 1500 properties throughout the U.S. In this episode, Steve shares his journey from 0 to 1500 properties, how he grew his team, the strategy to increasing direct bookings, how Steve prices his properties, and the impact of advocacy on vacation and urban short term rental markets. 📝Show Notes https://shorttermsage.com/str80 🌎Join the Host Nation community! https://shorttermsage.com/HostNation 💲 Become a host today. https://ShortTermSage.com/airbnb 🔎See our Airbnb equipment. https://ShortTermSage.com/kit