by Rent Responsibly Team | Apr 24, 2026 | Newsletters
Call me an iconoclast, but I covet the few participation trophies I get as a middle-aged man. So much so that I once ran a 31-mile ultramarathon for a participation trophy (err, finisher’s medal). “Hey Google, why did participation trophies become a bad...
by Paris Achen | Apr 23, 2026 | Back of House: Team Rent Responsibly, Humans of Short-Term Rentals
Two months into her new job, Danielle Dixon was on high alert as the Washington State Legislature convened and momentum quickly built around a proposed excise tax of up to 4% on short-term rentals. It was an early test of her new role as Executive Director of the...
by Paris Achen | Apr 8, 2026 | Back of House: Team Rent Responsibly, Humans of Short-Term Rentals
Feature Image: David Krauss, Co-Founder and CEO of Rent Responsibly, and Julie Marks, Executive Director of Right to Rent Collaborative and Vermont SRTA Julie Marks’s role as a short-term rental advocate requires a kind of social hypervigilance, reading faces as soon...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Mar 23, 2026 | Newsletters
A few weeks ago, I lost a close friend here in Istanbul. She didn’t have a long resume or advanced degrees, but when she moved to a new country, she noticed that people learning English had no place to gather and converse with native speakers. She initially created a...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Mar 3, 2026 | Job Posts
Rent Responsibly is an education and community-building platform for short-term rental operators as well as an association management service provider to short-term rental associations around the country. The Executive Director or Operations Manager (title dependent...
by Paris Achen | Mar 3, 2026 | Back of House: Team Rent Responsibly, Humans of Short-Term Rentals
Feature Image: Alicia Pearson, Executive Director of Minnesota STRA (right) at the LMC awards Alicia Pearson ran for mayor of Lanesboro, Minnesota, because she wants the town to prosper long after she’s done raising her two sons, 12 and 14. “I love my town, and I...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Mar 3, 2026 | Job Posts
Rent Responsibly is an education and community-building platform for short-term rental operators as well as an association management service provider to short-term rental associations around the country. The Executive Director or Operations Manager (title dependent...
by Paris Achen | Feb 19, 2026 | News, Regulatory News
A bill that would have allowed Colorado communities to tax vacant homes died in committee on Feb. 9, 2026, after more than four hours of testimony and concerted opposition by short-term rental activists. House Bill 1036, sponsored by Reps. Brianna Titone and Elizabeth...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Feb 17, 2026 | Newsletters
“Almost heaven sums up our experience…” — Guest review This note came from a family who traveled across the country—including a 101-year-old mother—for a rare week together. The hosts, Allison and Richard Moser (board members of the Washington Hosts Collaborative...
by Paris Achen | Feb 9, 2026 | Back of House: Team Rent Responsibly, Humans of Short-Term Rentals
When Tereza Marks joined Arizonans for Responsible Tourism (AZRT) in May 2025, she became Rent Responsibly’s first-ever executive director hired to lead a state short-term rental alliance. It was a pioneering role. But Tereza didn’t come to the position through the...
