Before the 48 hours start: notice periods and permits
Owners stay with a manager they have outgrown because changing sounds like losing a season.
Here is the actual hour-by-hour of moving a live, booked listing to us in two days.
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Your year-end statement, and what your accountant needs from it
Gross booking revenue is not your revenue, and the difference is four separate deductions.
Here is the whole stack, line by line, before your accountant asks.
Airbnb removed 300,000 listings. Here is how we keep yours off that list.
Airbnb has been quietly deleting low-quality listings, 300,000 of them at last count.
The defense is boring: somebody walks your house four times a year with a checklist.
Eight million listings, and a widening pricing gap
Everybody says they use dynamic pricing. Almost nobody says what they do on Monday.
Here is the exact loop we run on every Boost home, every week.
355,000 people showed up for July 4. Here is how we priced the week.
Let Freedom Sing drew a record crowd of more than 350,000 downtown this year.
A holiday week is not a rate increase. It is four different pricing decisions in a row.
90,000 fans a day: how turnovers actually work during festival week
CMA Fest drew about 90,000 fans a day in June, and NASCAR closed the month out at the Superspeedway.
Peak weeks are won and lost in housekeeping, not in pricing.
If you switch managers, what happens to your bookings?
Vacasa cut about 800 jobs on May 9, roughly 13% of its workforce, and owners started asking questions.
Here is the hour-by-hour of moving a Nashville home from one manager to another.
Council waived the 100-foot rule four times last month. What we do with news like that.
On March 19 Metro Council approved four short-term rental zoning exemptions, each needing 21 votes.
Nashville's permit system is not a form. It is a process, and here is how ours runs.
Nashville did not make AirDNA's top 10. We still took on homes here this month.
AirDNA's 2024 Best Places to Invest list had no Tennessee market in the top ten.
Here is the review we run on a specific Nashville home before we agree to manage it.
The five numbers every owner statement should show
Most owners look at one number on a statement: the deposit. There are five that matter.
Here is how ours is built and what to demand from whoever sends yours.
Guest Favorites changes what a 4.8 is worth. Here is how we inspect for it.
Airbnb's Winter Release put a Guest Favorites badge on two million homes and rebuilt the ratings display.
Reviews just became a sorting mechanism, which makes the walkthrough the highest-leverage hour we spend.
Why we reprice weekly, not daily and not monthly
Everyone in this business says "dynamic pricing." Almost nobody says what they do on Tuesday.
Here is the weekly repricing routine we run on every home we manage.