Last week I went to a conference in Portland. This was not just any conference. This was the World Domination Summit. What is WDS, you ask? The World Domination Summit was started 9 years ago by a man named Chris Guillebeau, author of the book “The Art of Nonconformity.” The purpose of WDS is to […]
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Your Porter announces new feature
I continue to be impressed with Your Porter. Your Porter is the automated messaging tool that I use to run all of my properties. There are a ton of different similar tools out there – SmartBNB, Guesty, Hostaway, and more. I’ve personally tested nearly all of them. In my opinion, none of them come close […]
Your Porter
Let me tell you a secret about me. I really hate talking to people. Not all the time, and not with everyone, but on the whole I would rather be alone with a book than talking to someone any day of the week. Ironic, isn’t it, considering that I work in the hospitality […]
A tool to help you easily manage your finances
It didn’t take very many months of hosting short-term rentals for me to realize that I needed a way to keep finances straight. With every listing, you will have receipts to keep track of, clients to pay out, invoices to send and pay. If you really want to go the extra mile, you can track […]
Build in time for the boring stuff
Once you start managing multiple properties (or even before that point), it will become critically important to have a dependable schedule set up that you and all of your teammates can refer to and work off of. A few weeks ago, I was made acutely aware of just how important such a schedule was. Everything […]