All Forum Posts by: Ryan Moyer

I would assume the OP would have airport pickup as an option for the car. That's how the person I mentioned above in Orlando does it. The person flies into Orlando, picks up their car at the airport, and uses it to drive to their STR, then drops it back at the airport when they're done.

There is someone that does this in the neighborhood I own in near Disney and has great success with it.

The major advantage is every time you encounter someone on one platform, you get a free, GREAT lead (someone that you know is traveling to the area and already has a relationship with you) for your asset on the other platform.  And a discount for booking both through you can often close the deal on one or even both of them.

The main problem with this is Turo cars are not NEARLY as easy to self manage remotely (nor are there as many management options) as STRs, and there aren't nearly the same type of systems set up for it.  Most Turo owners are local to their cars, unlike STRs.

But if you can make the Turo rental work it seems like something that could be a huge help, and the couple people I've talked to actually doing it have had good luck with it.

 To be fair I'm in Utah which randomly seems to be the pickleball capital of the world somehow.  It was big here 5 years ago before it caught on everywhere else.  We have 4 indoor pickleball complexes and probably 7 or 8 sets of pickleball courts (each with 8-15 courts) within a 15 minute drive of my house.

 I'm 39 and I know at least 2 dozen people that play.

 Actual dollars saved are still worth more than a tax writeoff that saves 35% of those dollars.

No idea where people are getting this weird notion that a used hot tub is something gross and it has to be new.  There are hundreds of cabins that turn over to new owners every month in a place like Gatlinburg and every one of them keeps the hot tub from the prior owner and on one blinks an eye about it.  It's not like they're throwing it out and buying a new one.  

Heck, several of the people in this thread weirded out about a used hot tub are probably using a used on that came with the home in their rental.

 How far from the beach was this?  Most lots I'm seeing even 2+ blocks from the beach are $750k+ for 9000sqft lot that would be tight to even fit a pool on, just for the lot.  And I figured you were looking at minimum $1M+ for the build in that area.  Are the home builds much cheaper than I'm anticipating?

Since they're set up as separate listings each one has its own pricelabs dynamic pricing calendar.  I don't really go in and intentionally adjust prices so one is more expensive than the other.  So on some dates the combo is more expensive than booking each individually, and on some dates it's cheaper.  It's probably something that could be optimized further to force it one way or the other but I haven't done that, and honestly am not even sure which way would make more sense.

30ish percent, though that seems to have been rising lately.

I should note that these cabins are RIGHT on top of each other.  So close they almost look like they're attached.  One is 4br, one is 2br, for 6br total.

Further out I block off the individual calendars and only make the dual booking available.  Then 4-5 months out I open up the larger 4br cabin so that listing and the 6br combo are both open.  The small 2br is relatively easy to book last minute so I only open that one 6-8 weeks in advance.  The idea is I'd prefer to book it as a combo so I don't want someone booking the small 2br 8 months out and blocking off the combo's calendar.

I do this with two cabins I have right next to each other.