Vacation rental industry insights

A five-minute phone call separates great managers from mediocre ones. Here are the ten questions that tell you everything — and the answers you want to hear.

The honest answer: yes — if you verify who you're booking with and pay the right way. Here's the complete safety checklist for booking direct with a property manager.

The nightly rate is only part of your bill. Here's how platform pricing actually works — and why the same house is usually cheaper booked directly with its manager.

Most professionally run vacation rentals are managed by a local company you can book with directly. Here are five reliable ways to identify who actually runs the listing you found.

As Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) continue to raise their commission rates, property managers are finding innovative ways to drive guests to book directly. Discover the top strategies yielding the highest ROI.

High-thread-count sheets stopped being a differentiator years ago. Here are the five amenities guests at the top of the market now assume you have — and what each one costs you after the install.

Peak season practically books itself. The transitional months are the real test, and they are decided by arithmetic you run before you touch a single rate.

The 11 p.m. WiFi question is not an emergency. It is the constant drizzle of small questions that eats your evenings. Here is how to hand that off in 2026 without handing off the hospitality that actually matters.