Meet the Community | Introduce Yourself

Hello All - excited to be here to engage and learn along with y’all!

• 🎤 Name - Erin Chavez
• 📍 Location - North Texas, USA
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 2 years
• 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager - Properties in Waco, Texas (Magnolia Silos/Market, Chip & Joanna Gaines neighborhood)
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 1 for now
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I have lived abroad in a couple of Middle Eastern countries in the late 90’s

So happy to join this community.  Looking forward to meeting and learning from others.  I truly love what I do and hope to grow my business now that I can do this full-time.

I never miss a townhall.    MERCI to Miles and the whole team for putthing this host community together.  You always try to make things easier for us and it is appreciated!

• 🎤 Carole
• 📍 Orlando, Florida and Space Coast Beaches
• 📅 9+ years ( partnered with Hospitable in April 2022… best decision I have made!)
• 🤝  Owner of Florida Rental Retreats 
• 🏡 Vacation Rental Manager for 7 STRs 
• 🎨 Interesting fact is my native tongue is French, speak some Arabic, Persian, Russian and Spanish…. Just enough to be polite.  I am a citizen of the world :)

I'm Denise. I manage 20 cabins on Beech Mountain NC -Including my own personal cabin.

I've used Hospitalable for about 3 years . 

I was born German but live in Ocean Isle Beach NC 

Hi everyone!  Happy to be here!

• 🎤 Stacia 
• 📍 I live in Delaware but my STR is in the captivating city of Savannah, Ga.
• 📅 Just under a year
• 🤝 What you do: I own and manage The Abilene on Forsyth, our 1st STR
• 🏡 1
• 🎨 Love to travel and have been to 14 different countries and counting!  I love to read and historical fiction/non-fiction is a favorite topic.  

Hello everyone!

• 🎤 Kever
• 📍 Louisiana
• 📅 4 yrs
• 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host, & cleaner
• 🏡 3
• 🎨 Business Analyst, Turo Business,  & VP of a dance company. Love pouring into people and love spending time with my family!

Oh hey, y’all! 👋🏼

🎤 Angela
📍 Phoenix, AZ (for now!)
📅 Hosting for 5 years and still going strong
🤝 Owner and self-manager
🏡 Managing my own place, co-hosting with my bestie ​@Mel Melheim on hers, and getting ready to take on a third property once I hit the road in my Sprinter van
🎨 Just finished a degree in tech entrepreneurship and gearing up for full-time van life soon! Catch me chasing mountain views, Wi-Fi signals, and the perfect cup of coffee ☕🚐✨

🎤 MovingLake 

📍 Mexico and US

📅 4

🤝 We provide data connections and analytics

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🎨 MovingLake name comes from data lakes. A moving data lake is basically what we do! 

Thanks Hospitable for putting this together ❤️ 

Hey Everyone! Loren here from Touch Stay!

Thanks for the welcome into the community. Grateful to be here, and for the amazing Hospitable Team - one of the very best in the business! 🙌 

🎤 Hi everyone, I’m Corrine!
📍 Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
📅 I’ve been in the short-term rental space for over 14 years—first as a Property Manager in Whistler, BC, and for the past 4 years as part of the team at Operto.

🤝 I work as a Solutions Engineer. While I’m not a host myself, I collaborate closely with property managers, owners, and service providers to help streamline operations, improve guest experiences, and grow their businesses.

🏡 I’ve had the privilege of supporting operations across thousands of properties globally, especially through my work with tools like Operto Teams.
🎨 Fun fact about me: Before I became a property manager, I was a hotel GM. I can say from firsthand experience that short-term rentals often have more complex operations than most hotels—so hats off to all of you for the hustle you put in every day.

I’m looking forward to learning from this amazing community and sharing what I can to support your work. Don’t hesitate to reach out or tag me if you ever want to chat about operations, tech stacks, or guest experience workflows! 🌟

Hi everyone, 

• 🎤 Scott Munos
• 📍 Medellin, Colombia & Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
• 📅 18+ years 
• 🤝 Owner, self-manager, co-host, property manager
• 🏡 9
• 🎨  Avid traveler, 2 grown kids, 23 & 21.  Recovering corporate tech industry work-a-holic, making a run at managing STR’s full time!
• Fun fact - over the course of my corporate career, I was interrogated twice by the FBI!  (Exonerated both times!  haha!)

• 🎤 Susan @ MyHomeKeep
• 📍 Gilmanton NH (Lakes Region)
• 📅 2 Years
• 🤝 Owner, Host, Self Manager
• 🏡 1 & actively looking for more!
• 🎨 Realtor, Wife, Mom to 5 and Lucy, the St Bernard

Hi All!  Looking forward to meeting you & learning a lot from the this fabulous community!  I’m still new to the short term rental hosting business, my goal is to become an expert host, investor and realtor helping others with their investment purchases. 

Aloha All!

I’ve been attending the town halls as of late, but this is my first time exploring the community.  I’m excited to listen, learn and share.

• 🎤 Jeremy
• 📍 Afton, VA
• 📅 9.5651 years and I was just awarded my 37th consecutive SuperHost badge. 
• 🤝 Owner, Self Manager
• 🏡 4
• 🎨 I’ve been restoring a once-abandoned 19th Century (which is old in the US!) Gothic Revival church on the VA/NC border.  Half of the building is now a STR and the proceeds all go toward further restoration of the church sanctuary.  airbnb.com/h/boogiechurch

Hello from Cape May NJ!

I am NEW to this platform and community.  I just wanted to introduce myself.  This forum is so helpful already! 

• 🎤 Name: Rose Veltri 
• 📍 Location: Cape May & Wildwood, NJ, USA
• 📅 Number of years hosting: I hosted my personal cottage by myself for 4 years, but I am now helping a team build their company through this site! 
• 🤝 What you do: I will assist in the management of this platform for the owners of a direct booking company. 
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: right now, 2, but more to come…..
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I am a business consultant who is 1 year into my own company, Rose Business Assist Pro.  I help others streamline and manage their businesses and help them grow their entrepreneurial visions into reality...also walked on hot coals at a Live Tony Robbins Event…

Have a great Day, Ro!

Rose Veltri

 Hey everyone! 👋 my name is Michelle, My husband and I have been an Airbnb hosts for almost 3 years, managing 4 of our properties in Laredo, Texas🫶🏻. We recently joined Hospitable to help us hosting and free up more time—especially since I’m also running a spray tan + aesthetics business, and a full time ER Registered Nurse, oh and I almost forgot we will be expecting a baby soon! 😅 My husband is a Full time Firefight/Paramedic for the city of Laredo👨🏻‍🚒 . We are excited to connect with other hosts, learn some tips, and share the journey. Grateful to be here!

Hello Everyone 🖐🏻

I am Jen, Founder and CEO of Home Sweet Host Property Management of short term rentals. I’ve been in this business for 2-3 years but I started in the industry 10 years ago.

2019 right before the pandemic was the best year ever here in the Bay Area! I hope things return back to there soon! 😃💰

I’ve used several different PMS, such as Hostfully, Hostaway, Airgms, Direct and Guesty and I have to say that Hostpitable is BY FAR one of the best PMS’ I’ve used! The ease of use, aesthetics and ongoing new features are amazing! Thank you all. 

• 🎤 Name: Jen
• 📍 Location: San Francisco / Bay Area, CA
• 📅 Number of years co-hosting/managing: 10
• 🤝 What you do: I co-host / property manage
• 🏡 Number of properties currently managed: 12-14 (depending on the season).  But I have have managed dozens of hosts & listings and thousands of guests over the last decade.
• 🚙 Interesting fact about you: I own a 1974 Olympic Blue Karmann Ghia 

Looking forward to learning and helping here!

• 🎤 Jade and Tammy
• 📍 Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula and Phillip Island throughout Victoria, Australia 
• 📅 8
• 🤝 Directors Of Ready Set Stay who manage properties as short stays for others
• 🏡 130
• 🎨 We started managing our own home and friends and before we knew it we had a business. It sort of just fell into our hands 

•  Name: John Clendineng
• 📍 Location: Columbus Ohio
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 2 years
• 🤝 What you do: Mechanic, owner, self-manager, property manager
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 2 STR, 3 LTR
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I’m the top producer in the highest producing independent repair auto shop in America

Hi, everyone! I’m Karalina from MasterMind · Tech. We specialize in smart monitoring and AI guest communication call solutions for vacation rentals and hotels: noise, cigarette smoke, occupancy, temperature, and humidity, all without recurring subscription fees. Our AI Call Bot automatically calls guests to handle incidents, deliver personalized meet & greet calls, answer incoming concierge-type calls, among other custom functions.

We’ve built our systems with a level of engineering precision designed to outperform many well-known options in the market, in both reliability and versatility. There are good tools out there… but we believe hosts deserve exceptional ones. Happy to chat if you’re curious how we’ve engineered ours differently. Always excited to connect with fellow hosts and managers who value smarter, leaner tech.

• 🎤 Shane Stephens
• 📍 Live in Spring Hill, TN and host in Pigeon Forge, TN
• 📅 Number of years hosting - 1
• 🤝 What you do: Owner
• 🏡 Number of properties managed - 1 and adding 2 more
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you - I am the shortest male in my family at 6’6”

Hi from Crete, Greece

• 🎤 David (A.K.A Crazy D)
• 📍 Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
• 📅 Many years maintaining, new to co-hosting.
• 🤝 What you do: Property manager,  co-host,  maintenance, networking and smart home installation.
• 🏡 8
• 🎨 I am also a Father, DJ, web developer, electrician, mechanic, plumber, carpenter plus TV/Satellite,  network and smart home installer…Phew!

fabulous to be here !

• 🎤 Name : Paul

• 📍 Location: West Palm Beach, FL

• 📅 Number of years hosting: 4 years

• 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager

• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 2 now, but fluctuates

• 🎨 Interesting fact about you:  Alongside hosting, I’m proud to serve on the board of a nonprofit that supports LGBTQ+ individuals in recovery. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hello.

Excited to join the Hospitable community and connect with other hosts. I’m based in Dallas, Texas, where I manage multiple short-term rentals and also run Sparkly Maids, a cleaning company specializing in vacation rental turnover. Our property management company, LlamaStay, grew as a sister company to Sparkly Maids, so we bring both perspectives: the guest-facing experience and the operational backbone that keeps everything running smoothly.

📍 Location: Dallas, Texas
📅 Years hosting: 5 years
🤝 What I do: Owner, self-manager, property manager
🏡 Properties managed: 8 STR
🎨 Fun fact: I started in the cleaning industry before expanding into full property management, which helps us really understand both sides of the hosting experience.

We focus on optimizing listings (titles, descriptions, and photos), streamlining operations with tools like Hospitable and PriceLabs, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and service to consistently earn 5-star reviews. Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from everyone here!

• 🎤 Name: Carter 
• 📍 Location: Utah
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 3
• 🤝 What you do: Co-host/ Property Manager 
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 10
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I have a STR Newsletter called behind the booking

Hello All!

My name is Sara, and I’m based in Georgia. I’m the co-founder of Travina, a platform that connects travel advisors with quality vacation home rentals for their clients.

I’m also the owner of Paradise Road Travel, where we design custom vacations for clients, and where the idea for Travina was born.

Having spent a lot of time on the advisor side, I’m excited to be part of this community and to help strengthen the connection between travel advisors and property managers.

• 🎤 Moritz
• 📍 Leipzig / Germany
• 📅 One Year
• 🤝 We are a Leipzig based company with a focus on building our own portfolio (a bit of co-hosting as a side-gig). Currently launching two new properties every month. 
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 11
• 🎨 I love everythign related to water: Sailing, Surfing, Wingfoiling, diving or simply staring at the sea :) unfortunately there is no good place to do all of that in Germany.