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Rent Responsibly is the community building and education platform for local short-term rental alliances. Our tools and alliance management services equip local leaders to build successful, self-sustaining organizations of short-term rental hosts, managers and all other stakeholders. We make it easy for leaders and members to connect, collaborate, solve common challenges, advocate for themselves, steward their communities, and rent responsibly.
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July 2021 Newsletter: Everyday Sort of Magic
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're...
June 2021 Newsletter: Community with Intent and Action
Community. It’s a word I hear a lot these days. And I can’t help but wonder: is it based on principle and substance, or just a buzzword to suit a marketing agenda? What does it really mean in the travel industry in 2021? It will always be used by some as a...
May 2021 Newsletter
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.Gertrude Jekyll, Horticulturalist ••• Here in NC, there's a two-week period every May when spring flowers sneak up and burst to...
Recent Stories
Angie Leone: Always Something to Give
Angie Leone embodies the Aloha Spirit. She and her team at Coconut Condos in West Maui are finding new ways to keep giving back to the local, national and international community during Covid-19 as they eagerly await the reopening of Maui’s tourism industry.
Michael and Krysten Sjogren: Creating Quality Time for What Matters Most
After having been at Boston Children’s Hospital for over three weeks with his son, Caiden, Michael Sjogren realized he had burned through all of his time off, but the hospital bills were continuing to pile up. “At a time when my son and my wife needed me the most, I had to leave them and go back to my cubicle so I could earn a paycheck to support them,” he said. “That pain as a man and a dad and a husband was the worst pain I’ve ever felt. That day I made a declaration that I would find a way to build a business that would give my family the income that we needed without sacrificing our most precious asset: our time.”
True North Points the Way in Traverse City
Christian Gissing of True North Property Management in Traverse City found opportunity in the chaos of Covid-19, creating new ways to keep his staff employed, housing local families displaced by a hotel foreclosure, and implementing welcoming touches for guests to remind them – and all of us – how essential vacations truly are.
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Hospitable Podcast
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March 6, 2024
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February 16, 2024
The Vacation Rental Micro-School Podcast
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October 30, 2023
The Art of Hospitality Podcast
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August 16, 2023
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June 13, 2023
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April 10, 2023
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February 1, 2023
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Rent Responsibly, and College of Charleston publish a nationwide study
January 28, 2022
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September 7, 2021
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Winter 2021 Issue
Short Term Rentalz
What would a Trump / Biden US Election win mean for the short-term rental industry?
November 5, 2020
Short Term Rental Secrets
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June 17, 2020
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May 25, 2020
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May 18, 2020
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