Meet the Community | Introduce Yourself

• 🎤 Name Wayne Ulery
• 📍 Location Youngstown, Ohio
• 📅 Number of years hosting I’ve been a host since 2021.
• 🤝 What you do: Owner and Co-host manager. 
• 🏡 Number of properties managed-
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I love smart home tech and AI. When you arrive at one of my properties, you’re greeted by an AI avatar who welcomes you, goes over a few house rules and then asks you if you’d like some popcorn. Upon answering yes, the microwave turns on and you are moments away from fresh popcorn. My smart STRs also alert guests when it’s time to take out the garbage and whats hot on Taco Tuesday in the local scene. Guestgs press a button to initiate check-in and check-out routines. My housekeepers get greetings too. Ziggy is my AI Super Host and I have a lot of fun with my guests.
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Hi everyone! 🖐 Mari here, from your friendly team at VRPlatform. We have been a Hospitable partner for a couple years now, and we are excited to be part of this community! Whether you are waist-deep in owner statements or you are just curious about dipping your toe into managing properties that you don’t own, we’re here to put your accounting worries to rest. 

A little about me: My husband and I live in Oklahoma City with our dog and our cat 🐈, we just ran a half marathon in Kauai (and then promptly headed to the breweries), and I have been training in aerial dance for over 7 years. Before joining the vacation rental industry, I worked for companies in the health foods and oil and gas industries, and this one is my favorite by far!

• 🎤 Name Scott 
• 📍 Location Outer Banks, NC & Denver, CO
• 📅 Number of years hosting 6
• 🤝 What you do: Owner & co-host
• 🏡 Number of properties managed 10
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you Enjoy adventure travel, including surfing with my kids

🎤 Eric Hedo

📍 South Florida & SWFL (Broward, Palm Beach, Ft Myers greater area)

📅 Years Hosting: 20+ I've been in hospitality my whole life! From working in hotels in South Beach to managing my family's beach cabin resort in South America for 15+ years. Now, I have been in real estate for well over 5 years and self-manage our properties.

🤝 What you do: I'm a real estate investor, realtor, co-host, and property manager.

🏡 Number of properties managed: 2 vacation rentals (our own), and 6 long term rental for clients. Actively looking to acquire more properties, looking to purchase conventional and creatively for ourselves and for clients.

🎨 Interesting fact about you: I'm passionate about hospitality and real estate and love finding creative ways to make a deal work, including sub2 and rental arbitrage. I'm always looking to connect with other like-minded investors and acquire new properties like vacation homes, boutique hotels, inns, and RV parks.

Hi Everyone - excited to be here!

• 🎤 Arthur Colker
• 📍 New York City
• 📅 I have been in this industry for 6 years!
• 🤝 I am the founder and CEO of StayFi, and we work with 100s of Hospitable users to help them drive more direct bookings for their listings. 
• 🏡 StayFi is in over 80,000 properties worldwide.
• 🎨 I used to run marketing for a mobile payments company jointly owned by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Unfortunately, it was called Isis—which made for some confused (and often entertaining) conversations.

• 🎤 Name: Juan Pablo Téllez Girón
  📍 Location: I live in Cancún, but I host remotely.
  📅 Number of years hosting: I’ve been doing this for 10 years now.
  🤝 What you do: I used to do full property management, but I sold that company. Since two months ago, I’ve been focusing on remote management.
  🏡 Number of properties managed: 17
  🎨 Interesting fact about you: I truly love this industry, and I’m a big fan of Hospitable, even if they don’t have the platform in Spanish!
   

  

Hi y’all!  My husband and I have one property in the back half acre of our 4 acre property in southwest Austin, TX.   Originally thought of building the house to accommodate our 3 married children with their 3 spouses, 2 dogs and now 6 grandchildren!   Way to many ppl for our own residence.  Now the guest house has become our 4th child!  We self manage, self clean, self maintain.  Been with Hospitable for over 2 years and love the convenience and connectivity it offers.  Looking forward to getting tips and ideas from this community!

• 🎤 Short Stay Property Management www.sspm.com.au
• 📍 Australia
• 📅 8 years hosting
• 🤝 we manage our own portfolio of properties across Australia as well as managing properties for their owners for a total of 30 properties.
• 🎨 started hosting a spare bedroom in 2017 and haven't looked back. Love the freedom and sense of achievement this industry gives us. We are always planning our next adventure to explore this amazing planet we call home. We are lucky to have an amazing team of virtual assistants, cleaners and tradespeople to keep things moving smoothly :)

• Mindi Irvine 
• Walla Walla, WA 
• 8 years 
• 🤝 What you do: Property Owner and Cohost company owner - Oasis Escapes 
• 15 listings 
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: Love spending time with my 4 adult children, I am building my cohost business with my 21 year old son, I have a daughter serving a year in Kenya as a student missionary and I love snow skiing and traveling! 

Hi y’all, nice to meet you! :-)

• 🎤 Name:  Ashley
• 📍 Location:  The NC Crystal Coast (Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle, Morehead City, Beaufort, etc)
• 📅 Number of years hosting:  4
• 🤝 What you do: We own and manage our own properties and also co-host properties as well
• 🏡 Number of properties managed:  15 right now as we keep launching new ones and growing! A year ago, we only had 3 properties. It’s been bananas with our rapid growth lol
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you:  I grew up near Charleston, SC and have traveled extensively in Latin America. The beach has always been my home, so I feel so lucky to have created a business that allows us to live at the NC coast.

Hi all, I can’t wait to do an Insider Q&A session tomorrow! Here is a little about me. 

• 🎤 Grace Gudenkauf
• 📍 Tucson, Arizona
• 📅 4.5
• 🤝 Owner, Builder & Co-founder of WIIRE  
• 🏡 27 units
• 🎨 Avid reader & hiker 🌵 📖

• 🎤 Name: Jen Holloman
• 📍 Location: Kentucky
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 4
• 🤝 What you do: Owner, self-manager, co-host!
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 13
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I come across outgoing but my favorite thing is to watch tv alone and snack! LOL

• 🎤 Concierge Sarah
• 📍 Marblemount, Washington aka: North Cascades National Park
• 📅 Number of years hosting:4
• 🤝 What you do: Consultant and cohost, concierge
• 🏡 Number of properties managed:20+
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I specialize in off grid properties and have lived in the North Cascades, off the electrical grid for 9 years.I started Lookout Mountain Concierge with one cabin and have grown in 3+ year to 20-25 properties at any given time with builds and remodels in progress. lookoutmountainconcierge.com

Hi Friends! I manage about 20 properties in Ontario, Canada. I am actually looking to partner with someone so if you wanted to reach out about working together please do! I have been doing this since 2015 and working with Hospitable about that long too! I am one of their OGs lol! It’s been super helpful to allow me to do this and other things too :) 

Nice to meet you all!! 

Hello Hospitable Community!

My name is Thomas Waymouth. I have been hosting, investing and managing properties for 5 years. New to hospitable - was referred from many people in a hosting group I am apart of called Robuilt.

My wife and I just began scaling our own portfolio. We bought another 5 acre property in Arkansas with two cabins and plan to add a couple more tiny houses in the next year. I am Excited to learn more and connect.

Are there any videos or tutorials from hosts you all know of that have really optimized their listings and have used hospitable to the max of it’s abilities? I would love to get that perspective. I want to skip over dense tutorials that explain every little thing and have someone awesome just share the best set ups and strategies that work for them. 

Anyone aware of any videos like that?

Thank you!

Hey Sarah - My family is from lookout mountain for many generations. My wife and I are both former NAtional Park Rangers. Very inspiring stuff! You have scaled quickly. Well played!

Hi ​@Thomas Wayfinder, welcome to Hospitable! 💜

We’ve got some great videos ready for you, and more on the way!

1. Meet your host mentor
2. Hospitable Academy
3. Power-Up Workshops

You can find them all under the Learn and Grow tab in the menu. Take a look and let us know what you’d love to see next.

Hi Folks! Brian here.  I am just starting in the STR world with a cabin in Sevierville TN.  

• 🎤 Name: Marisa Grover
• 📍 Location: Texas
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 5
• 🤝 What you do: I run Simply Stay, a leading STR Property Management and Systems Coaching business. I host a super fast-growing, upbeat community dedicated to helping business owners and property managers absolutely master their short-term rental operations.
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 45
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I built an entire 45-property management company, a VA placement agency, AND a systems consulting brand… all while still doing Costco runs, hosting guests, and raising two tiny blonde boys. :)

Hi everyone! I’m Marisa Grover, and I’m thrilled to join this amazing community of hosts, property managers, and vacation rental enthusiasts. I help Airbnb entrepreneurs and STR business owners streamline their operations, build systems that actually work, and reclaim their time. So they can focus on growing their business and enjoying life.

Interesting fact about me: I turned my near-burnout experience running multiple STRs into a thriving business and now help others ditch chaos, automate their operations, and finally have weekends, family dinners, and sanity back.

I’m looking forward to connecting with all of you, sharing tips, and learning from your experiences, too—let’s make hosting easier and way more fun!

Hello Hospitable Community 👋 I’m Lana Udalova, CEO of Polydom. Excited to join as an official Hospitable Partner.

• 🖊️ Name: Lana Udalova

• 📍 Based in: Washington, DC

• 🤝 What we do: We build UNA, a voice-first AI Host/Operator that works like a human inside Hospitable workflows and handles real-time bookings + guest communication across phone, email, messaging, and web (not just drafting replies)

• ✨ Two quick examples of what UNA handles:

• Reservation Inquiry stage: replies immediately to questions before payment/confirmation so potential bookings don’t slip away.

• Early check-in & late check-out: checks calendar availability and confidently offers options — a simple upsell that increases revenue and margin.

• 😴 Why we built this: so you can actually sleep, take days off, and still protect a 4.9+ guest communication score.

• 🧘‍♀️🌍 A bit personal: I love travel and yoga — and this summer I’m planning to visit our clients and experience their hospitality in person :)

• 🌐 Website / Live demo: https://polydom.ai/ (Talk to UNA anytime — “UNA sells UNA.” If she can sell herself, imagine how she can support your services 😊)

• 💬 Best way to communicate: lana.u@polydom.ai

• 🔗 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svetlana-udalov-98309b5a/

Hey all, happy to be here.

Bought my first apartments in Switzerland a couple of years back and am now offer beds for about 80 people. All in the Saas Fee region in the Swiss Alps. 

I love technology, and smart devices. Have been always looking for ways to automate things, and improve guest experiences. 

Main job is in tech, have been realizing dozens of projects including a number of successful startups. Engineering background, passion for design, and interiors. Currently Head of Compliance (so I can help with EU AI Act, GDPR, and Data Security questions here) at Saas Tech Company (±70 people) where we build software for the recruiting industry.

Have been building a ton of integration to help my own hosting-business, and recently thougth to make some of them public (HostReply, and ThermaLink). 

I hope to learn more from this community about best practices, and looking forward to give back my knowledge.

• Smart Devices
• Anything Technology
• Data Security
• Interior Design
• Renovation
• Swiss Alps :)

Lets go!!!

Tom

ps. the smart devices that made my life a lot better:

• tado heating
• Nuki Smart Locks
• Ring Doorbells & Cameras
• Philips Hue (not big life changer, but still nice)

👋 Hi everyone! I’m Lubov — great to meet you all!

I’m passionate about hospitality, technology, and building tools that make hosting (and life!) easier and more joyful. I’m currently working with hospitality tech and love exploring how smarter systems — like Hospitable — can truly transform guest experiences and streamline day-to-day operations.

🔹 I enjoy connecting with fellow hosts and professionals to share tips, learn from each other, and grow together.
🔹 Outside of work, I love discovering new places, experimenting with travel hacks, and finding cozy coffee spots.

Really excited to be here, learn from this awesome community, and share insights whenever I can 😊

Feel free to connect with me!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lubov-kopylenko-2960445b/