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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...
Amy and Scott Grant: Giving back to Kauai through their vacation rental business
If you had asked Amy and Scott Grant 20 years ago if they thought they would be running a vacation rental business on Kauai, they might have thought you were joking. At the time, the couple was running a catering business in Lake Tahoe after having met in culinary...
Park City Lodging: A Safe Haven for Utah’s Most Vulnerable
On March 13, Utah’s Park City Lodging temporarily ceased operations as Covid-19 spurred a wave of shutdowns across the country. The vacation rental company quickly saw an exodus of guests and found themselves with none of their usual late ski season business. ...
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