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.

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I had the honor of speaking with Zac Rushton, co-owner of Great Dwellings, a short term rental management company based in DC. Great Dwellings has 80 managed and 10 master leases.

In this episode, Zac shares his experience of joining Great Dwellings when they had 20 properties and stuck being unable to grow, and how by joining their team they were able to take on an additional 80 properties in a few short years.

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I had the honor of speaking with Darik Eaton, founder of Seattle Oasis Vacations, a management company that operates 30 units in the Seattle Washington area. Darik's portfolio currently consists of 28 managed and 2 master lease.

In this episode, Darik shares his journey of starting his short term rental business using Craigslist, his battle and the outcome of fighting a condo association on their regulations, how he grew his portfolio inside of condos and HOAs, how he helped stop the city of Seattle from enforcing even stricter regulations, and much more.

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I had the honor of speaking with Alice Horn, CEO of My Villa Key, a vacation rental management company in the Orlando Florida area. My Villa Key has 80 properties under management.

In this episode, Alice shares her journey and struggles of entrepreneurship when starting a company, how she positions her management company to help children on the autism spectrum and other development disabilities, and how she has been able to compete in the highly competitive Orlando market.

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Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Ray Licardo. Ray is a short term rental operator based in the San Jose area. Ray has 10 total properties under management, 6 of them being master lease and 4 cohosted.

In this episode, Ray shares his experience quitting his sales job to pursue short term rentals full time, how Ray pivoted his business to cater towards corporate rentals, and how he has been able to create a profitable business netting $700 - $1000 per property by only doing monthly rentals.

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Today I had the honor of speaking with Jennifer Frankenstein-Harris, CEO and founder of Great Ocean Condos, a vacation rental management company located in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Jennifer's company has grown to 265 rentals since 2008 and is grossing $6 million a year.

In this episode, Jennifer shares her experience of falling into vacation rental management, what it was like to scale, the obstacles along the way, and her unique approach to growing her management company.

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I had the special honor of speaking with TJ Tijani. TJ is a BRRRR investor and a STR manager based out of Houston area who has 14 units total, 7 which are owned and 7 master leased.

In this episode, TJ shares his journey of BRRRR investing to master lease investing, how to stand out in a crowded market, and the costs associated with buy and hold investing vs master lease.

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In this episode, I have the special honor of speaking with Andrew LeBaron, founder of Buymoretime.com, a management service that charges as low as $99 a month for short term rentals as opposed to a revenue share model.

In this episode, Andrew shares how he is able to keep costs so low for his services, his unique way of automating the business, his process for streamlining client onboarding, and how he has been able to outsource everything to virtual assistants.

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I had the special honor of speaking with Tom and Sofia Sharkey. Tom and Sofia are the owners of Lemon Tree BnB, a short term rental management company in Kansas City, MO. Tom and Sofia got started after buying their first personal home in a trendy area of town in 2018 which was quickly turned into their first STR. A year later they got their second property in the same neighborhood using the rental arbitrage strategy. Tom left his speech therapy career to pursue his dream of building wealth through real estate and a short term rentals. Over a six month period their STR portfolio expanded from two to twelve listings using diverse strategies of buy and hold, partnering, rental arbitrage, and management.

In this episode, Tom and Sofia share their journey on starting and then scaling to 12 units in a six month period, their unique strategy to finding true value add rental arbitrage properties, and how they have been able to scale through investor partners.

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I had the special honor of speaking with Rich Munroe, founder of Diamond Edge Properties, a tax lien real estate investment company that has shifted it's focus to primarily short term rental management and master lease investing in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

In this episode, Rich shares his experience of starting his real estate flipping company, how tax lien investing works, why the switch to focus on short term rental management, and why Rich's strategy involves acquiring the largest properties in the area to master lease.

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