How to clean your vacation rental effectively & efficiently! Stressed about how to get that vacation rental cleaning done in such a short window of time and still get the five-star review? I'll walk you through our vacation rental cleaning process on how we clean our four bedroom, 2,000 square foot home in about 4 hours. Whether you're cleaning your home yourself or hiring a team, you'll want to make sure that you have these six steps covered in your cleaning process. OK, I h

2018 was our best rental year yet, and it was all because we did this one thing. In last week's post, I shared how one of the mistakes that we made was really not investing in our decor soon enough. This week, I'm going to share how our $2,000 vacation rental makeover resulted in having our best year yet in 2018, and it beat those previous years by a long shot! Today, I will break down what we did and the impact that it had. I'll first preface by saying that I am not an inter

Why I would do these three things differently if I were starting today... I've now been a host for over five years, but my first year as a host was filled with a lot of trial and error, and lessons learned along the way. Mistakes are definitely a part of the journey, but hopefully this post today will help you avoid some of the mistakes I made early on. Mistake #1: Not Investing in Décor Sooner The first few years we were really just kind of hodge-podging our furniture togeth

Were you aware that there are two very different sides to hosting? And, in order to be an awesome host we really must excel in both areas. As a vacation rental owner myself, I realized this about a year into my journey and once I really truly realized this, our overall performance improved significantly. In this post, I'm going to cover the two sides of hosting and how you can excel in each area. In order to really excel at vacation rental hosting, you'll need to be both a gr