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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. ...
Angie Leone: Always Something to Give
Like many, Angie Leone found her way into the vacation rental community by happenstance. She and her husband first moved to Maui in 2006 for her job as a speech pathologist. She stepped away from the role when she had her first son, but wanting to stay busy, she...
Michael and Krysten Sjogren: Creating Quality Time for What Matters Most
“For years my wife and I followed the blueprint that so many of us were given,” Michael Sjogren said. “Go to school, get good grades, get a good job, go back to school, work really hard and save your money in a 401(k).” But when their son, Caiden, was born with...
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