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Vanessa de Souza Lage on how sustainable vacation rentals can make a better world
Vacation rental tech entrepreneur Vanessa de Souza Lage grew up with sustainable practices. Recycling and compost gardens were part of daily life at her school. As an adult, she gave up eating meat to reduce her impact on the environment. For most of her career, she...
Alex & Annie: Finding ‘aha’ moments in the vacation rental community
The concept for the Alex & Annie Vacation Rental Podcast got its start in the middle of the Covid pandemic inside an exclusive Clubhouse group called STR Professionals. It was a time when vacation rental professionals and others were looking for ways to stay...
How advocacy led to popular short-term rental podcast Thanks for Visiting
Like many in the short-term rental advocacy sphere, proposed regulations at the local City Council brought hosts Annette Grant and Sarah Karakaian together. Both had come to speak at the Columbus City Council meeting in spring 2018 to oppose a proposal that would have...
Lindsey Montoya: The face behind sought-after Rent Responsibly events
Feature photo: Lindsey Montoya (fourth from right) with team Rent Responsibly at a team retreat in Chicago in April 2022. In 2022, Rent Responsibly hosted 42 virtual events for members of the short-term rental community. Most of those events were educational webinars...
One for All: How Mateo Bradford-Vazquez Lifts Communities Up
Like most hosts and advocates, Mateo Bradford-Vazquez didn’t set out to have a career in short-term rentals. Originally, he thought he was going to become a lawyer. Then, one of his high school mentors invited him to be a founding staff member of a school in the...
Jenna Fuhrman: The Hardest Worker in the Room
The headline on Jenna Fuhrman’s LinkedIn profile says, striving to be the hardest worker in the room. As the product marketing and partnerships manager, she has proven to be one of the hardest workers on Rent Responsibly’s remote team. “Jenna has a way of getting...
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Vacation rental advocate to Virginia Beach City Council, Elaine Fekete is making it happen
After an abrupt loss of income in 2009, Elaine and Mark Fekete faced a choice: either short-term rent their home year-round in Sandbridge Beach, a coastal neighborhood in Virginia Beach, or leave the community. Vacation rentals in Virginia Beach had not ever crossed...
New vision: How Heidi Lawson redesigned her life and community with a Baja, Mexico vacation rental
When Heidi Lawson stumbled upon her dream beachside home in the small resort community of Punta Pescadero in Baja, Mexico, she had a feeling that she’d never experienced before – a complete sense of belonging and destiny. “When I walked in the front door, I was like,...
Hostē: From short-term rental novices to leaders in responsible renting and property management
University and military service took brothers Evan and Phil Wilburn in different directions after growing up together in Tennessee. While stationed with the Air Force in Colorado Springs in 2016, Evan bought a five-bedroom house and started renting out rooms on online...
C2G Advisors: built on trust and integrity
When Jacobie Olin and his siblings were growing up, their chores often included stripping beds and taking out the trash at vacation rentals. They were early lessons in values like service, teamwork, and commitment, things that would eventually come full circle in...
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Matt Trevino: Winning hearts and minds in a war over Oahu short term rentals laws
“I served in the U.S. Army for 21 years, and I had to abide by a lot of different policies and rules,” said veteran Matt Trevino. “I didn’t serve as a medic in Afghanistan just to have my property rights taken away from me.” After overseas deployments in Iraq and...
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