by Rent Responsibly Team | Sep 20, 2021 | Newsletters
The Business of Belonging That’s the title of the book team Rent Responsibly read leading up to our first true company retreat, photographed above, which we held in Charleston, SC just after the DARM conference. Written by David Spinks, The Business of...
by Dana Lubner | Aug 26, 2021 | Event Recaps, Leadership Seminars, STR Advocacy 101
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Rent Responsibly’s Leader Seminar, Inspire & Ignite: Stoke Your Team’s Fire and Avoid Burnout. Panelists Debi Hertert, founder of Host2Host, and Stephanie Short, vice president of partnerships at America Succeeds, discussed...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Aug 10, 2021 | Newsletters
What the Vacation Rental Industry Can Learn from the Olympics Consistency is key To have even a slight chance at an Olympic medal means years of consistent training. Olympians put in their 10,000 hours and then some, the consistent performance improvement that...
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by Paris Achen | Jul 26, 2021 | Guest Communications, Hosting and Management, Nuisance Prevention, Responsible Renting
If you self-manage a short-term rental, you have probably fielded some challenging questions or requests from guests, including those that indicate guests would inadvertently – or intentionally – skirt your house rules. Sticking to your house rules and booking...
by Bri Pope | May 13, 2021
Join Rent Responsibly and two of our founding partners, Key Data and Proper Insurance for a virtual Happy Hour! In this free event, we’re uncovering hidden gems in your market data and things that may surprise you about short-term rental insurance. From there, we’ll...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Feb 16, 2021 | Newsletters
Alone, we can do so little. Together we can do so much. – Helen Keller We have yet to meet someone who, as a kid, said they wanted to be a short-term rental owner, host or manager when they grew up. In some ways, this is our most common characteristic as a community:...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Jan 19, 2021 | Newsletters
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –PLATO These words come from the Greek philosopher’s Republic, a dialogue between Socrates and others as they debate the concepts of justice, the ideal community, the best way to educate their utopia’s guardians,...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Nov 1, 2020 | Newsletters
Welcome A lot of people liken advocacy efforts to a marathon, but I don’t really like that analogy. Marathons are a solo sport with a far-away finish line. The only way to do one is to start running and just… keep running.Marathons require a lot of endurance built up...
by Rent Responsibly Team | Oct 1, 2020 | Newsletters
Welcome For many folks, October is usually the shoulder season, a time to reset for a winter unlike any we’ve seen before, or a slow wind down to close up shop until the spring.At Rent Responsibly, it’s a different kind of shoulder season. Advocacy and ordinance...
by Amber Friel | Jul 20, 2020 | #FindtheHelpers, Humans of Short-Term Rentals, Responsible Renting, Social Responsibility & Giving Back, Supporting Local Businesses
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...
