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A New Spin: How Stay Local Nashville Saved Short-Term Rental Jobs During Covid-19
In early March of 2020, Stay Local Nashville was thriving. The short-term rental property management company had been on track to manage 200 properties by summer. Then the Covid-19 pandemic struck and the company lost millions of dollars in bookings overnight. “In 48...
How a vacation rental in Hampton Roads became a safe haven for guests with disabilities
For Linda and Ned Popovich, hosting guests at their vacation rental in Hampton Roads is a labor of love. It has allowed them the opportunity to offer a haven for people living with developmental and sensory disabilities and PTSD — a mission that is just as important...
Campanilla Compound: Welcoming visitors like family to Santa Fe
Campanilla Compound has long invited visitors to “live like a local” in Santa Fe, New Mexico, decades before Airbnb was created. “We had that niche in Santa Fe for a while, for people to rent a home in a residential area, when no one else was really doing that,” said...
Logan Humphrey: Finding the Meaning of Life in ArkansasVacation Rentals
Editor's Update 2023: Logan is now also the founder and president of Arkansas Short-Term Rental Alliance. Learn more about the organization here, or browse our complete alliance directory and resource center here. What is the purpose of life? It’s a heavy question,...
Paying it Forward: How Every Dancing Bearfoot Stay Makes a Difference
In November of 2016, Chuck and Cindy Schmidt had owned their Sevierville, Tenn. log cabin for just a month when the Chimney Tops 2 Fire swept through 11,000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fire took several lives and destroyed hundreds of...
Local as it Gets, Part II: Stock the House, Stock the Community
Three years ago, Domenica Mastroianni found herself needing a vacation from vacation planning. She realized there was a gap between travelers increasingly turning to short-term rentals and the lack of concierge-type services available to them, so she started Stock the...
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Forward Thinkers: Homeowner’s Collection remodels traditional vacation rental management
Max Watson, a retired IT professional in the picturesque community of Seaside, Florida, had never owned a vacation rental. He had, however, heard increasing complaints from his neighbors about the companies managing their vacation rentals which is where Homeowner's...
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The challenge: A look at short-term rental safety through a new lens When outfitting a vacation home or other short-term rental, it can be easy to inadvertently overlook necessary safety practices when inspecting the home with the eye of an owner occupant instead of...
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