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Hi Hospitable Community!

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to update your profile with some details about yourself and a photo of you.

You can also take a moment to introduce yourself to the rest of the community by commenting below. Feel free to follow this template if you’re not sure where to begin:

  • 🎤 Name
  • 📍 Location
  • 📅 Number of years hosting
  • 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager, industry vendor, cleaner etc.
  • 🏡 Number of properties managed
  • 🎨 Interesting fact about you

We can’t wait to get to know you all better!

Thanks Miles! Super exciting! 🙌
A quick intro; My name is Ethan, I’ve been with the Hospitable team since 2022 and I’ve been a Hospitable customer myself for maybe 4 years 😊
I self-manage properties on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, with my wife. 
Looking forward to getting amongst the Hospitable community here! 


Robert here. I manage a retreat center outside of Austin TX. We host lots of families, and also events/retreats.

 

In addition, I’ve done MTRs, and also manage LTRs and a commercial property in Boise ID.


Hello, I've been with Hospitable for more than 2 years. Love the team. 🌱

I am just your neighborhood host.
 


  • 🎤 Mel Payne
  • 📍Valley of the Sun! (Metro-Phoenix, Arizona)
  • 📅 5 years hosting (with Hospitable since 2023)
  • 🤝 What you do: What don’t I do? I’m a tech geek and for my W2, I’m a manager of a tech support team. So it translates well with my adoption for all things automation in my hosting and cohosting business. I also hold a RE License as well as teach other how to self manage. 
  • 🏡 I cohost, revenue manage, own/host, etc, for 9 properties. I’m boutique in each one of my properties is handled differently. 
  • 🎨 Interesting (and random) fact about you: The only form of dancing I’m good at, is raving. Younger day talent. 

Hi everyone, happy to be here and check the place out.  I own several STRs and manage/co-host a bunch of others.  Currently mostly in the Disney area and Southern Utah, but always expanding.

 

Been with Hospitable since the smartBnB days and am excited to see it keep growing!


  • 🎤 Mel Payne
  • 📍Valley of the Sun! (Metro-Phoenix, Arizona)
  • 📅 5 years hosting (with Hospitable since 2023)
  • 🤝 What you do: What don’t I do? I’m a tech geek and for my W2, I’m a manager of a tech support team. So it translates well with my adoption for all things automation in my hosting and cohosting business. I also hold a RE License as well as teach other how to self manage. 
  • 🏡 I cohost, revenue manage, own/host, etc, for 9 properties. I’m boutique in each one of my properties is handled differently. 
  • 🎨 Interesting (and random) fact about you: The only form of dancing I’m good at, is raving. Younger day talent. 

Mel, you’re always so helpful in the Facebook group!


  • 🎤 Scott Sherin
  • 📍 I reside in NJ but co-host listings in Georgia, Delaware, and am closing on a listing in New Hampshire next week
  • 📅 Hosting since 2021. Started with my own listing, proved that remote management is feasible, began taking on clients
  • 🤝 Property owner and co-host
  • 🏡 Currently managing four
  • 🎨 Fun fact, I’ve never been good at these. I’m an avid snowboarder!

    Looking forward to connecting with other Hospitable hosts!

Hellooo everyone! Many of you know me if you’ve written in to us at Hospitable support. I’ll be hitting year 5 with Hospitable this September 💜

  • 🎤 Lisa Prins
  • 📍 Debrecen, Hungary (soon to move back to the USA)
  • 📅 Not a host, just supporting you all! 
  • 🤝 Customer Support here at Hospitable. 
  • 🎨 I used to be a photographer and videographer in the NYC area before up and moving to Hungary to head up a nonprofit as their interim director. Now, I work from home with two rescue pups and attend countless BMX competitions to cheer on my two sons 💀

Hey friends!!

  • 🎤 I’m Emily Tunggala.
  • 📍 I live in Tucker, GA, USA with my husband and our 3 kids.
  • 📅 I’ve been a host since June 2022.
  • 🤝 Sr. Product Manager here, at Hospitable!
  • 🏡 I self-manage one property.
  • 🎨 I have 5 backyard chickens. Easter Eggers that lay blue and green eggs. If it weren’t for amazing noise cancellation in Zoom, you’d surely hear them squawking during town halls!

I’m excited to be a part of this community!


  • 🎤 Seth Balogh
  • 📍 Tampa, Florida 
  • 📅 2+
  • 🤝 Owner, Self Manage & Co-Host (started in 2022 as a self manager and then started to co-host in 2023)
  • 🏡 8
  • 🎨 Before real estate I had a career in film and photography! Enjoyed it very much, but my life was always on the road and go. I pivoted to real estate because I always wanted a family & now I have a beautiful wife & to amazing little girls (Almost 3 &1).

  • 🎤 Name: Michael Reilly
  • 📍 Location: New Bern, NC
  • 📅 Number of years hosting: 5 years
  • 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager, co-founder of STR Secrets and coach individuals who wants to start their short term rental career
  • 🏡 Number of properties managed: 20+
  • 🎨 Interesting fact about you: Wife and I love to explore and typically bring our two kids Palmer and Woods and our two newfies Birdie and Bubba on the adventure. We have a passion for traveling and hosting fellow adventurers

Hey everyone! Super excited to see the community grow (it's about time Miles did this) 😅 Happy to be here!

 

🎤 Matt Krueger

📍 IOWA

📅 Coming up on four years hosting

🤝 I'm a dad (of 4), husband, and a host

🏡 We have 3 STRs and 7 LTRs

🎨 I dabble in content creation (just passed 500k subs). I enjoy making people smile while bringing hosting to viewers in a fun and educational way. Follow me @Rental.Cashflow


Hi Everyone! How amazing is this new platform and community space?! I’m honored to be here and so excited to see it grow! Here’s a little about me and myself. 

🎤 Zoey Berghoff 

📍 Colorado Home base but Full-Time Traveler 90% of the time

📅  Started hosting in 2020 

🤝  Real Estate Mentor to the Rooted in Rentals Community & Investor/Developer while doing it with my husband and 1 year old! 

🏡  We have 3 STR and 2 Builds underway

🎨 We have been nomad travelers since we started our short-term rental journey living in yurts, rooftop tents, campervans and constructions sites. We are big believes in land hacking and developing land and builds for our properties!


Hello - Jason here, thanks for the invite! Been a Hospitable user since 2022 😄

  • 🎤 Jason Muth
  • 📍 Newburyport, MA
  • 📅 Number of years hosting - 8 years. 32x Airbnb Superhost so far!
  • 🤝 What you do: Own 5 short-term rentals (4 in New Hampshire, 1 in Provincetown, MA where also run a co-hosting business with 20 client properties called Prideaway Stays)
  • 🏡 Number of properties managed - 25 total and counting...
  • 🎨 Interesting fact about you - we host a podcast called SmartStay Show, all about short-term rentals. We just celebrated our 250th weekly episode!

  • 🎤 Libby Ross
  • 📍  Oklahoma 
  • 📅  Hosting 4 years
  • 🤝 Owner & cohost,.
  • 🏡 40
  • 🎨 I have a freckle on my lip

Hey Hospitable Hosts 👋🏻

  • 🎤 Kevin Bryant Ramirez
  • 📍 Miami, FL 
  • 📅 Co-hosting since 2019 (6 years)
  • 🤝 I’m a Co-Host/Property Manager and also a Hospitable employee. I’ve been a Customer Support Advocate for 2 years now. 
  • 🏡 Currently manage 15 properties in South Florida.
  • 🎨 I have my own hosting-related podcast called The BNB Professional

A-hoy-hoy! 

 

Dave Hillar here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am the owner of www.casacohost.com and both a user of (and investor in) Hospitable since 2021! We have over 100 properties live at this time on Hospitable and fully expect to be across the 150 mark by the end of 2025. 

 

Interesting Fact: I almost named my daughter “Hospitable”….ok, that’s not true, but I do love the software.


Hi!  I’m Marilynn Taylor!  You can find me on instagram and Tik Tok @MarilynnTaylor

  • 📍 Southern & Central California
  • 📅 20 years hosting
  • 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager, coach. www.marilynntaylor.com
  • 🏡 Total of 7 over time, but down to 1 now, with the capital invested in more passive investments!
  • 🎨 Interesting fact about me - I used to be a professional dancer, actress and makeup artist.  I danced for Michael Jackson, Franz Harary (illusionist), in the film Jackass Number Two, acted in Bad Grandpa and have met and worked with more celebrities than I can count.

Welcome to the community new joiners! 😄 Why not come say hello and introduce yourself ​@PacificStay, ​@Alicon CL, ​@MikeB, ​@Hostpitality, ​@Best Life Lodging, ​@Peter, ​@Bonnie RExpertz, ​@Airbassador, ​@TheLSL, ​@Icepicknz, ​@Kentolla, ​@Arg, and ​@Teeracey?


🎤 Tom Herrmann
📍 Hamburg, Germany
📅 Working in the short-term rental industry since 2022
🤝 Software engineer on the direct product team at Hospitable
🏡 Not a host myself, but I help build the tools that make hosting easier
🎨 Fun fact: I’m a passionate D&D game master, a dad to a toddler, and I build everything from smart automations to modular toy kitchens in my spare time.


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