Meet the Community | Introduce Yourself

• 🎤 Shamon Gharst
• 📍 Charlotte, NC
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 4
• 🤝 What you do: Owner, looking to co-host next; also in quality improvement for hospitals 
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 1 for now 
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: I grew up moving all over for the military but didn't leave the US till my 20s.

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Sofia Penagos, part of the Customer Success team at ChargeAutomation.

📍 Joining from Colombia 🇨🇴

Excited to be here and connect with you all!

Hello! Jim from London, founder of JOLI. When a reservation confirms on one of your properties, we send the guest a personalised trip plan built around their stay - where to eat, what to do, what's worth the detour. Glad to be in the community, tag me anytime. 

Hey Hospitable community! 

I’m...

• 🎤 Juan Pablo Tellez Giron
• 📍 From Cancun, Mexico.
• 📅 10 years hosting
• 🤝 I used to manage properties in Quintana Roo Mexico (company sold)… Now I do remote management in the US mostly. I also have an STR podcast and Youtube Channel @mundobnb
• 🏡 22
• 🎨 I started using Hospitable with my last company in 2019… and I always hated when we changed PMS!!! I started my new company using Hospitable! 

Hey everyone! Jamie here.

I’m an active Hospitable host and the founder of JottoGo, which grew out of the welcome-note workflow I built for my own properties.

🎤 Jamie  
📍 Sydney, Australia  
📅 Hosting for 10+ years, but much more seriously over the past year — with a lot of credit to Hospitable for helping me get more structured  
🤝 Owner / host / industry vendor  
🏡 2 properties, with a third coming online soon  
🎨 I split my year between Australia and Greece  

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and helping where I can — especially around guest experience, arrival touches, cleaner workflows, and the small details that can shape a stay.

Thanks ​@Miles Hobson 

 

• 🎤 Anthony Rallo
• 📍 Brooklyn, NYC (but operating in Fire Island, Catskills, Poconos & Smokies)
• 📅 9 years hosting
• 🤝 What you do: Owner & self-manager
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 7
• 🎨 Successfully toilet trained cats since I was a child

Hi all,

• 🎤 Name: Jen Theuriet
• 📍 Location: my property is in Long Beach but I live in Sacramento
• 📅 Number of years hosting: 2 months
• 🤝 What you do: I’m the owner of Retro Glow a one bedroom condo 2 blocks from the ocean, I’m looking to add more properties to my portfolio but likely closer to home in Northern California
• 🏡 Number of properties managed: 1-for now...
• 🎨 Interesting fact about you: my dog saved my life when I was 2

🎤 Sangs and Andy
📍 North Georgia / Atlanta area
📅 Number of years hosting: Newer host, still learning and improving
🤝 What you do: Enjoy hosting and investing
🏡 Number of properties managed: 1 short-term rental
🎨 Interesting fact about you: I enjoy yoga, travel, and learning new things.

Hey everyone — first post here, wanted to introduce myself.

I'm Todd, founder of Rinsebase. My wife works in the cleaning industry, and
Rinsebase came out of watching the chaos behind every turnover up close — the
spreadsheet scheduling, the "is it clean yet?" texts, the no-photo guesswork.
So I built the software I wished her company had.

Honest part: Rinsebase isn't built for hosts — it's built for the cleaning
companies that serve you. But that's exactly why it matters to you. When your
cleaning company runs on Rinsebase, your turnovers get:

 📅  Auto-scheduled from your Hospitable calendar — a booking comes in, a clean
     gets dispatched to the right crew. No back-and-forth.
 📸  Photo-verified — before/after photos on every clean, so "is it guest-ready?"
     stops being a question.
 ✅  Guest-ready confirmed before check-in.

We just became an official Hospitable integration partner (a few of you may have
caught us in the last town hall), so connecting is a couple of clicks.

Two quick things, then I'll get out of the way:
 1. If you work with a cleaning company — tell them about us, or send them my
    way and I'll personally get them set up. Smoother turnovers for you, free
    on your end.
 2. If you handle your own turnovers — you can use it too.

Mostly though, I'm here to learn from this community — you know the host side
better than anyone. Happy to answer anything about cleaning ops, turnovers, or
photo verification. Glad to be here.

— Todd, Founder of Rinsebase

Congrats ​@Rinsebase_Todd ! I would like to encourage you, if it's not already available, to create the capability of videos being part of this platform. We found that videos can be a much easier way for us to get a true guest view of our entire property, more easily than large amounts of photos. 

Hi everyone, my name is Tommy and I’m the founder of TurnMyBnb.com.  I was an engineer at Microsoft for 11 years and have since been working in the STR industry with my wife Lina.  Lina runs a cleaning company in Greater Phoenix focusing on STR’s, and since I’m an engineer I was looking for operational gaps to fill with technology being the nerd that I am :) Would love to engage with any and all hosts willing to discuss operational problems that you need help with. I’m genuinely curious, specifically, in any turnover pain you have been having so I can see if I can solve it for you! Aside from that, I love hiking, mountain biking, road tripping, lifting weights, and really anything that requires movement.  Cheers everyone!

-Tommy Ash

Hi! It’s a pleasure to meet you all.

I’m Jocelyn with VayKLife. We are based along the Southeast U.S., and we provide, deliver, and maintain vacation gear for guests, so homeowners can offer more without having to worry about storage, cleaning, or ongoing upkeep. 😎

I am personally based out of Atlanta, GA. Feel free to reach out any time, I am happy to be here, happy to connect, and happy to help!

Hi everyone! 👋

🎤 Name: Billy Karidis

📍 Location: London, UK

🤝 What we do: Co-founder of GuestCharge. We help short-term rental hosts bill guests for EV charging. Guests scan a QR code on the charger and pay per kWh by card, and the host gets paid automatically. We're working on our Hospitable integration at the moment, which is what brought me here.

Really glad to be here. If anyone has questions about EV charging at their properties, whether that's chargers, billing guests, or the rules around reselling electricity in the UK, ask away. Happy to help where I can!

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Alex, Co-Founder of GuestArrive.

We help short-term rental hosts, property managers, and hospitality professionals automate regulatory compliance in Greece: from guest data collection and tax calculations to required government submissions and legal receipt issuance. We're proud to be a Hospitable integration partner and excited to be part of the community.

If you have any questions about operating short-term rentals in Greece, Greek compliance requirements, or how Hospitable integrates with local regulations, feel free to ask. Happy to help however we can!

Great concept. I know electricity in the UK is even more insane than the US so this is particularly important I’m sure. 

Hello! 

• 🎤 My name is Adrian Fernandez and I am hosting in
• 📍 The Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
• 📅 This is my first year hosting
• 🤝 I self-manage my STR and also am the CEO of a real estate advisory firm. We provide off-market properties including short term rentals significantly below market value, saving our clients tens of thousands per purchase!
• 🏡 I am starting with one property
• 🎨 I am from Spain, but residing in the US, and if you would like to hear more about our off-market properties at deep discount prices, you can feel free to reach out at a.fernandez@legadobuilders.org!

• 🎤 Alex Bykov
• 📍 Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear CA
• 📅 3ish
• 🤝 we started self managing, then became cohosts, and are now a management company
• 🏡 Started hospitable with 6 in 2026 and are up to 39 today, planning to hit 50 by end of year
• 🎨 I love the color orange, hence our company is The Orange Cabins, we have an orange pool, an orange car, and an orange barbell, plus plenty of other orange items. Now developing a suite of app for our company all name Orange ________ (List, Tasks, Comms, Owners, etc.)