All Forum Posts by: Jason Luongo

Howdy BP community, thank you in advance.

In addition to doing my own research, I'm also looking for STR Property Manager recommendations from this community. BP has provided so much value to me and my RE endeavors that a recommendation would go a long way in helping me find the right partner.

Why now?
I've been a house hacker the last 7 years. Started with LTR tenants, then bought my second house and I converted an ADU to an STR while I still lived there. Due to a growing family I've had to move into my LTR home recently. I've been managing the STR myself and I'm comfortable managing it myself but due to some of the unique aspects of the property, I feel that having a professional STR PM involved might lead to one of those situations where by me doing less I'll actually get more out of the property.

If anyone has experience with a well established STR PM that has the below assets, I'd love to hear about it!

The right kind of PM for me:
- Is established in the STR space and has a sizable team, including a handyman on staff.
- Can perform an audit of my property, it's unique attributes, and make data driven recommendations on optimal strategies to increase performance.
- With their portfolio, they have access to a property management software that will allow syndication to more channels then I can manage myself. Outside of Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com, I'd like to be listed on TripAdvisor, on Google's Vacation Rental Search results (only available to approved PMs, not individuals like myself, and potentially flipkey, fullyfurnished, and craigslist.
- I'd prefer they be local to ATX but I don't see that as a hard requirement if they are highly reputable and have access to locals.

I'm a willing partner, I can commit to:
- Super clear and reasonable on expectations 
- Being super responsive to requests. Be it unique guest requests or repair requests. 
- Open to suggestions on property amenity improvements and listing management
- Available to review reports and communicate openly.

If anyone in this community has first hand experience with a PM that you think I should meet with, I'd REALLY appreciate the recommendation.

Again, thank you for the attention and help!

Hi Jason, did you attend the STR summit as planned? I'm sure everyone here is correct about all of the information being available on BP and other sources, but, aside from the networking, did you find that there was enough new information to make attending the event worthwhile? I'm curious about their "unique" scaling strategy as well. I'm all for efficiency and have no issue with paying for expediency, but I also want to make sure it's worth the time, effort, and expense to attend.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Kayce 

 Hi

 how do you like the direct booking part? ive seen a direct booking web page example from OwnerRez, but i cant find an example of one on Hospitable.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to everyone!! I hope all of you are having a great holiday season.

I’m starting this thread to help my wife gain clarity and resolution on some issues she’s having with pricing, and hoping we can get great feedback from all of you to help us remedy the problems.

Currently we have been using Guesty as our Channel manager. My wife has been managing our STR's for almost a year now with pretty good success. However we consistently have issues with pricelabs not properly pushing over the pricing she has set for our properties over to Guesty which then results in the nightly rates not always updating on Airbnb or VRBO. It's sort of an intermittent problem so it's been difficult to truly identify the real issue.

So I was curious if the issue has anything to do with Guesty and if any others have experienced similar problems.

Also, now that we are entering into a new year (our first FULL year as hosts) we are considering a change of channel managers and wanted to see what the BP community recommendations are?

Thank you all for your continued guidance.

It sounds like SFH is the target in this area and that Condos would not work due to HOA by-laws. Be very interested to connect with those of you who have feet on the ground in this area to discuss where I should be looking. Interested SFH's near or on the water or at the least with a pool.

Just to be clear for everyone interested in this market there are only a handful of areas in PBC that allow STR. Majority of communities (both SFH and condos) have HOA's which prevent it. Still some great opportunities in pocket areas and specific condos but it's definitely not just a free-for-all around here. Hope that helps!