Owner Relations

By Koryn Okey | 8/12/2024

The STR market is barely recognizable compared to just a few short years ago.

A post-pandemic afterglow that saw revenues shoot up is dimming rapidly while demand is softening. It’s no surprise that many property owners are feeling stuck in a period of stagnant income, desperately trying to understand how to increase income for their properties.

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1/29/2024

Kevin Vozar, the senior director of business development and owner relations at Cabins for You, discusses the importance of estate planning for short-term vacation rental owners in this episode of the podcast. He shares his journey into the short-term rental market after a career in financial services and emphasizes the necessity of estate planning, highlighting the basic components: a will, a durable family power of attorney, and advanced directives. He stresses the importance of planning to avoid interruptions in property management and potential complications for heirs in case of an owner's incapacitation or passing.

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By Guneet Lamba | 7/3/2023

When managing other people’s properties, getting owners on board with the changes that you’d like to implement is a must. While this can be challenging, it doesn’t have to be.

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By Dusty Church | 2/13/2023

For the third time this year, a guest has complained and threatened to leave a bad review because of the condition of one of your rental properties, but the owner just won’t spend any money fixing it up.

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By Andrew McConnell | 1/17/2023

Third-party listing sites like Vrbo and Airbnb have given vacation rental homeowners the ability to manage their homes in ways never available to them before.

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7/1/2022

As a property manager, the benefits of dynamic pricing might seem clear to you: more accurate prices on your listings, access to decision-driving data and insights, time savings, and, ultimately, maximized revenue. However, your owners will undoubtedly have questions.

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5/31/2022

My story begins on what I thought was a peaceful Thursday night in Kona, Hawaii. I had just finished streaming my favorite murder mystery (with absolutely zero thought that I’d soon be featured in one of those Airbnb horror stories everyone’s heard about), and was ready to bundle off to bed.

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By Paul Waldschmidt | 5/6/2021

OwnerRez has become known as the up-and-coming vacation rental software taking over the PMS and channel manager space, but in reality, its growth was built over many years by quietly creating happiness.

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3/17/2021

The vacation rental niche has done extremely well during this pandemic era, with locations and accommodation types that are ideal for socially distanced vacationing. Therefore, the biggest issue facing most VR managers is to keep the inventory they have and to find new owners to join their program.

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By Andrew Bate | 1/5/2021

According to Spencer Rascoff, former Zillow Group CEO and co-founder of Pacaso, people’s relationship with their homes — especially their second homes — is shifting in our COVID-19 world. After all, why not relocate for an additional few weeks of the year to a secondary home..?

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