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Do you host short-term vacation rentals on platforms like AirBnB and VRBO? Do you charge the same price for every night’s stay, all year? To maximize your income, you may want to rethink that approach and explore dynamic pricing.

We’re talking with Anurag Verma, co-founder of PriceLabs, which provides a dynamic pricing tool and data solutions for property owners and managers. We go deep into how dynamic pricing works and how it can put more money in your pocket. We discuss how demand factors like seasonality can impact pricing, and how dynamic pricing can reveal if your rates are too high (resulting in low bookings), or if you’re charging way less than the market can bear. 

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Owners of the short-term vacation rental properties that we manage have lots of questions, and understandably so.

We recently tapped every team in our organization, from guest communications to housekeeping, to find out what questions property owners most commonly ask. In this episode, we address the four biggies:

- “What is dynamic pricing?”
- “Why can’t I get website links to all of the booking sites my home is advertised on?”
- “Why do I see my property published at different prices across different listing platforms?”
- “Why can’t I access my property at free will?”

Host Killian Gordon provides straightforward answers, some of which may impress and surprise you.

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We’re talking holidays with Bon Hewlett, Property Care Manager & Executive Chef with Hostē. Booking short-term vacation rental properties through platforms like AirBnB & VRBO is becoming a popular way for families to spend holidays together, especially in larger homes.

We detail proactive, pre-holiday maintenance tasks that hosts and property managers should address to keep guests safe and comfortable, especially in anticipation of holiday meal prep. We discuss ways to elevate the vacation rental experience for holiday guests, and how to minimize putting staff to work on holidays, while still giving guests a delightfully memorable experience.

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We’re joined by Koryn Okey, VP of Client Experience for Breezeway, a property care and service platform for hospitality and property management providers. Koryn formerly worked with Flipkey, a channel that helps property owners collect and display guest reviews.

We tap Koryn’s insights into the short-term vacation rental property management industry, including how technology may disrupt guest reviews in the next 5-7 years. We discuss the challenge of satisfying guests with unrealistic expectations or disappointments beyond our control, plus Koryn shares her best advice for property owners. We also touch on who Breezeway can help, and how.

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In this episode we’re joined by Bon Hewlett, executive chef with Hostē Experiences, the newest arm of Hostē’s hospitality services. With Hostē Experiences, guests of our 160 managed short-term vacation rental properties can book exceptional experiences to enhance their stay, including in-home chef-prepared meals, wine tastings, guided yoga sessions and more.

Bon reveals what he learned in the trial-and-error process of refining Hostē’s dining services, providing hints to AirBnB property managers who want to improve their bookings and reviews. He shares what he sees for the future of Hostē Experiences, including offerings that reach beyond our guests.

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Thinking of buying a property to use as a short-term vacation rental on platforms like AirBnB? Do you manage vacation rentals and want to move into a new geographic area? You can maximize your chances for success by assessing a geographic area for clues that a vacation rental will (or won't) work there.

In this episode, we'll touch on pertinent issues including permits, an adequate local labor force, competition, inventory, seasonality, and the "vacation demand" of a given area. We'll share tips for sidestepping disaster, and even tell you how to make the most of a slow season. Listen in. You'll be shocked by how savvy you'll become in under 30 minutes!

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In this episode, we unpack some of what we learned at the 2021 conference of the Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) as it applies to the management of short-term vacation rental properties offered through platforms like AirBnB.

In a freeform discussion, we touch on insights gleaned from thought leaders in the short-term rental property management space. We talk about in-house cleaning crews vs. contractors; using all-in-one tech tools vs. building a proprietary tech stack; the importance of a human touch in owner onboarding; the use of short-term vacation rentals by human traffickers and how to recognize signs that a guest may be a victim, and more. 

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Hostē’s own Jorge Zarate joins us to talk about marketing and business development for short-term vacation rental properties. We discuss marketing to guests, as well as homeowners seeking management of their properties as vacation rentals.

Jorge reveals how Hostē is using its online presence for business development, and why the right property photos and descriptions are key, not just for getting bookings, but for exponential growth. We discuss the importance of managing expectations for happier guests, and why it’s a mistake to lean too heavily on just one or two booking platforms like AirBNB or VRBO. You’ll learn why we call Hostē a “hospitality ecosystem” and how it’s fueling our phenomenal growth.

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Simon Lehmann, one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on short-term vacation rentals, flew from Switzerland to share his insights on hosting and property management for short-term vacation rentals through platforms like AirBnB, VRBO, and HomeAway.

The demand for vacation rentals skyrocketed throughout the COVID pandemic. Simon revealed his prediction for where the industry goes from here. Do people return to hotels as their default lodging option, or are short-term vacation properties here to stay? Simon also shared what he feels is the biggest problem for vacation rentals in the U.S., and how it can be overcome. You’ll also learn about VRMA and how it can help you elevate your vacation property rental business.

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Jillian Kimber has worn many hats at Hostē, working with both guests and property owners in the short-term vacation rental space. She’s the creator of the Experiences arm of our business, offering guests of our managed AirBnb properties extra-special, in-home experiences, including chef-prepared meals, wine tastings, massages, facials, and yoga, as well as guided hikes. Guests can book experiences from our website, or on tablets provided in every short-term vacation rental property we manage. 

In this episode, we talk about our trial-and-error experiences in building these enhanced guest services and the technology to support them. We also touch on our new “squad leader” staffing structure and how it improves service to guests and property owners alike.

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