In the world of long-term rentals we do a lot of screening before we put a tenant in one of our properties. We don’t want someone getting in there not taking care of the property, and on top of that having a legal right to the property without some sort of financial reserve; ...

One of the upsides to real estate investing vs. other investments, stocks for example, is that with real estate we can know when we buy a property if it’s a good investment or not. It all comes down to the numbers. While there are a lot of metrics out there to compare investments there are a few that are more important ...

We are currently doing hundreds of reservations a month, and something just dawned on me after looking at our cleaning fee and realizing it was likely too low...We may be losing thousands of dollars! And not just in lost potential revenue but because our cleaning expense is actually higher than our fee. So that brings...

If you have had an STR for a while I’m sure you had some unexpected cleaning due to guests smoking in your listing or pets damaging your property. Not only is it frustrating when our properties aren’t treated with care but having to deal with the process to get reimbursed can be equally frustrating! And sometimes we...

Repeat guests are great. You already know they are good guests (otherwise you wouldn’t have them back) and they can really help keep your calendar booked more consistently. Today there are lots of options to take bookings directly and your repeat guests are great guests to approach. There are lots of benefits to this...