When it comes to rental property bookkeeping, many small to medium-sized landlords rank time spent on this essential task right up there with evictions and plumbing repairs. If doing your books is stressful, time-consuming, and…
The short-term rental landscape has spent the past year absorbing a structural change served up by the industry’s dominant OTA. Airbnb has been migrating hosts onto a mandatory 15.5% host-only fee in waves. PMS-connected hosts…
When Maui County moved to phase out transient vacation rental (TVR) rights on grandfathered “Minatoya List” properties via Bill 9 in late-2025, the policy was packaged as a direct solution to the island’s acute housing…
Selling a home feels simple until you do the math. Before you hand over 5% to a real estate agent, pay off your mortgage, and park the proceeds in a CD, it’s worth getting your…
California’s overlapping screening restrictions make it one of the hardest states in which to get a complete and accurate tenant background check completed. If you’re a self-managing landlord reviewing an applicant who has previously lived…
Only Stessa and Baselane appear to be offering native banking services at the moment, with competitors like TurboTenant, Hemlane, Avail, Landlord Studio, and others opting to stay on the sidelines. So it got us wondering,…
Two states ban application and screening fees entirely. A half-dozen more have tenant screening fee caps tied to documented costs. Several cap fees with a hard dollar ceiling. And a handful of cities stack their…
Screening a tenant is one of the most consequential decisions you make as a landlord. Get it right and you have a reliable occupant who pays on time, treats the property well, and renews. Ignore…
With 50 states, 3,000 counties, and 35,000 cities and towns, America is a big place. There are probably new Airbnb laws popping up somewhere nearly every day. Things will settle down eventually, but until then,…
Very few vacation rental owners know how to properly value their STR investment. Ask a typical Airbnb host how much their property is worth, and they’ll probably reference nearby home sales—even if those comparables aren’t…
Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t yet had to pull the rip cord and actually try to use the “free” insurance included with your Airbnb or VRBO bookings. No guest has poured concrete down a…
It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the vacation rental business or rapidly growing an empire-sized short term rental portfolio. Either way, you’ve got problems to solve and profits to bank. Here are our…