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Number of properties managed
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Hey Hospitable! Thanks for your help and support with my short term rental business. Here's a Lil bit about me.
Herbie BNB
Williamsburg VA and Cumberland MD
6 years hosting
What I do: Owner, self-manager, and have plans to start co-hosting and manager property,.
Number of properties managed: 3 self-managed, 1 up and coming
Interesting fact about Me: Me and Hip hop were born the same year!
Hope to connect in the community soon!!
Herbie, you are as old as Hip Hop!? What was the first few artists you listened to?
Grand Master Flash, Eric B & Rakim, Biz Markie
Interesting fact about Me: Me and Hip hop were born the same year!
Hope to connect in the community soon!!
Herbie, you are as old as Hip Hop!? What was the first few artists you listened to?
Grand Master Flash, Eric B & Rakim, Biz Markie
Pretty cool! The Fathers and Pioneers of Hip Hop
Hey, hey! You probably spot me popping up all the time in our Facebook group. Here I am again, like a boomerang, back in our new community!
Yle Labata
Mindanao, Philippines
Number of years hosting: None, but a member of Hospitable
Community and Customer Support
I have 2 kids (14 and 3) -- long gaps are not recommended. Please don’t do it!
Name: Johanan (Jo)
Location: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Number of years hosting: 2+ years
🧑🧑 What I do: My wife and I co-host together through our business, The Parcel Company. We manage short- and mid-term rentals with a focus on unreasonable hospitality—going above and beyond to make guests feel genuinely cared for.
️ Number of properties managed: Nine Properties
Interesting fact about me: I’m Dominican, a former military man, and driven to create businesses that serve people, not just profit. I’m also diving into content creation around communication, business growth, and self-mastery.
Hey everyone - Excited to be a part of this group! We’re located in Moscow ID - we self-manage four of our own units and also property manage for an additional three (just started on the property management). Recently switched to Hospitable from a different PMS and are excited about all the potential here - we’re very big into automation and delegation and have utilized that extensively in our other business endeavors. Excited to apply it here as well!
• Name
Travis & Jennifer Helton
• Location
Northeast Tennessee – Kingsport and Bristol
• Number of years hosting
Hosting for 10+ years, using Hospitable for nearly 2 years
• What you do
Owners and self-managers of Peaceful Peak Vacation Rentals. Jennifer is also a licensed real estate agent and STR consultant with background in mortgage business development, and Travis is a full-time contractor with a background in construction and chemical plant work.
• Number of properties managed
6 unique properties (and recently broke ground on our 7th)
• Interesting fact about you
We’re a husband-and-wife team working full time in the industry. In addition to managing our own portfolio, we consult and design for other short-term rental clients. We also recently planted a 1-acre wildflower field at our mountaintop retreat to create a colorful, guest-friendly that also supports our local ecosystem.
Maggie
Indianapolis, Indiana (but our STR is less than 2 miles from Turkey Run State Park)
Just starting - first guests in May 2025!
Own and self-manage with my husband
Own and manage 1 STR and 4 LTRs (+ manage 2 more)
I love plants and gardening & we have 4 backyard chickens!
I’m brand new to STR hosting and am excited to have a place to learn and ask questions! The past few months have been wild getting our property up and running and learning all of this new software - it’s been like trying to drink from a fire hose!
Name. Lara Justesen
Location. Just outside Kansas City on the Kansas side, USA.
Number of years hosting. 5 years
What you do: Owner, self-manager, automation early adopter.
Number of properties managed. Down to 1!
Interesting fact about you. Dipping a toe into rental class B RVs this year. Wishing there was a Hospitable equivalent for RV renting!!
Christi Unker
La Grange, KY
6
What you do: Co-Owner with my hubby, content creator for our social media sites and sometimes I’m the cleaner.
4 and done
I’m a newly retired school librarian (thanks to real estate) who still reads like it’s my job. My last gig was in a school for the blind so I can read braille. Can you? ⠠⠊ ⠗⠑⠁⠇⠇⠽ ⠇⠊⠅⠑ ⠠⠓⠕⠎⠏⠊⠞⠁⠃⠇⠑⠲
Hello everyone,
Bill & Jonathan
Fort Lauderdale \ Wilton Manors, Florida
4 years hosting
What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager, toilet scrubber, bed maker, kitchen cleaner, pool boy, and sometime ukulele player
2 Properties with 9 possible doors of various combinations
What you do: Full time tech company manager, part time owner and self-manager, trying to get into co hosting and more! #obsessedwithrealestate
Number of properties managed: 1
Interesting fact about you: I love DIY projects. When remodeling my first backyard, I didn't like any of the fire pits out there so I designed my own and started my own business because of it
Hi all. I am new to the Community
I’m Craig Gibson. Nice to meet you all.
From: South Jordan, Utah
My wife and I own 6 STR properties in Orlando and 1 in Myrtle Beach
Have been hosting since 2014. - Airbnb Superhost and Vrbo Premier Partner
Location - live in the Denver MSA, * Manage two - 2 bed condos in ski resort town, Keystone, CO
Number of years hosting - since 7/22
Interesting fact about you - was an apartment syndicator prior to moving to STRs. Have a little STR, LTR, multifamily real estate in various states in USA.
Name: Earl McCray Location: Rochester, NY Number of Years Hosting: 5+ years What I Do: Superhost, co-host, and property manager specializing in midterm and short-term rentals for corporate travelers, students, and professionals. I run Real Relief Consulting, where we help landlords and investors turn their units into high-performing passive income streams. Number of Properties Managed: Currently managing and co-hosting across multiple units in Rochester and expanding into Southern California and other STR-friendly markets. Interesting Fact About Me: I’m passionate about financial literacy, community mentoring, and helping others build legacy wealth through real estate—without owning property. Fun fact: I’ve hosted over 1,800 stays and counting with a consistent 4.8+ star rating!
Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and growing with this amazing community!
Name - Natalia Ramirez
Location - Miami, FL
Number of years hosting - 6 years
What you do - I make property owner’s life easier by fully managing their Airbnb business with as least involvement from them as possible.
Number of properties managed - 14
Interesting fact about you - Charity work fills my soul. I have run 4-5 very successful charity drives all on my own to help a children’s organization I love.
We have been using Hospitable for our business for the last 2.5 years and it was probably the best business decision we have ever made. We are always willing to take on more properties that fit our business model and also the property owners, as it is a business partnership.
Jenny B. w/ Triple H Retreat www.triplehretreat.com
Mabank, TX on Cedar Creek Lake (90 min. southeast of DFW)
4 yrs.
What you do: Owner, self-manager, bringing on a Co-Host this year!
Only 1 little sweet gem!
I’m a Landscape Architect that loves moonlighting as a Host
Happy to be here (finally)! I hope to meet a lot of you, talk all things hospitable, and of course give and get tips/advice/stories!!
Robb
San Diego, California
1+
Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager
15
Always up to trying something new, Mountain biker, Newish guitar student, recent empty nester
They let anyone in nowadays
Hey all - happy to be here Mark Simpson of Boostly
Here to help all hosts get to 65% Direct Bookings and a big Hospitable Fan
I’m mostly here to annoy @Matt Krueger
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 Mel! I also am in Phoenix! I have a few properties here, two in Williams and a home in Huntington Beach, Ca. Nice to meet you here. Rene
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!
Hello all!
Rene
Phoenix, AZ
Ten years hosting
What you do: Owner and self-manager
Six units (1 MTR in Huntington Beach, CA, 2 STRs in Williams, AZ and 3 MTRs in Phoenix)
I love swinging from silks (aerial silk acrobatics) and my guiding motto for life and business is faith and trust and a little pixie dust!
Name: Devin
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana (but host in Bloomington, IN; Scottsdale, AZ; Palm Beach, FL)
Number of years hosting: 10 Years!!
What you do: Owner/Self Manager but contemplating co-hosting & rental arbitrage
Number of properties managed: 6
Interesting fact about you: Music is my therapy with an uncanny availability to remember lyrics to R&B and rap songs from the early 2000s
Jill Harpold on IG & FB @EscapetoFredericksburg
Fredericksburg, TX, USA ( tourist town in TX wine & hill country @ 1hr to San Antonio & 1.5 hrs to Austin)
14 years hosting
I self-manage (previously managed 5 more)
1 property (www.EscapetoFredericksburg.com)
Love the STR owner lifestyle! Love Learning new things about all the facets of luxury travel – marketing, hospitality, interior design, wanting to learn AI, etc!!! I love traveling, the outdoors and am starting to learn golf!
Name: Taylor Meek — but most folks online know me as @therealawtor Location: Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas (operating everywhere a good deal lives) Years hosting: Hosting & self-managing STRs since 2017 What I do: Dual-licensed attorney (TX & CA) ＋ commercial & residential REALTOR with Keller Williams Properties managed: 8 rentals (and counting) Interesting fact: Long-time Dallas Mavericks season-ticket holder—canceled my seats in protest when Luka Dončić was traded, then re-upped two months later as the Mavericks look poised to draft Cooper Flagg.
If you—or any of your guests—need a trusted agent for buying, selling, or leasing in DFW (from first homes to seven-figure commercial deals), I’m your resource and happy to reciprocate referrals nationwide. Always up for a strategy chat, so feel free to DM or tag me anytime!
Patrick
Mariposa, CA
7 years hosting
What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager, industry vendor, cleaner etc. - YES
6 properties managed
Interesting fact about you: BTDT
I'm primarily interested in home automation—everything from locks and thermostats to lights, water heaters, and other systems that can improve quality of life for me and my guests, with as much transparency and control as possible.
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
️ Number of properties managed: Nine Properties
Interesting fact about me: I’m Dominican, a former military man, and driven to create businesses that serve people, not just profit. I’m also diving into content creation around communication, business growth, and self-mastery.
field at our mountaintop retreat to create a colorful, guest-friendly that also supports our local ecosystem. 
I love plants and gardening & 
we have 4 backyard chickens!
Website: 
Country
with Keller Williams