Seeking Consultant to help me optimize Hospitable.com, AirBNB and VRBO

Hey Rob! My name is Scott and I run Stay Klassi Properties. We manage around 60 short and mid-term rentals across several states and spend a lot of time in Hospitable — love the platform.

Sounds like you're off to a great start — Superhost in 4 months is no small thing. 

We do two things depending on what an operator needs — either a consulting/audit approach to help optimize what you already have, or we step in and run operations altogether so you can focus on growing the portfolio. Happy to just have a conversation and see if there's any fit.

623-263-0931 — feel free to text or call.

Congrats on reaching Superhost status so quickly! 🎉 With 155 Airbnb bookings but only 5 on VRBO, there’s definitely an opportunity to look at both your listing performance and channel strategy.

At Remotlify, we help vacation rental owners optimize their listings, including photos, descriptions, amenities, pricing strategy, guest experience, and overall booking performance.

We’d be happy to take a third-party look at all 3 of your properties and provide actionable recommendations rather than generic advice.

📩 remotlify@gmail.com

Feel free to reach out and we can discuss what you’re currently doing and where we see opportunities to improve.

Congrats on Superhost at 4 months — strong signal your ops are already tighter than most.

I've been doing this for almost ten years. That 155-to-5 Airbnb/VRBO split isn’t algorithm luck, it’s almost always a listing-parity problem. VRBO doesn’t inherit your Airbnb optimization — different photo/description weighting, and it rewards calendar sync completeness and instant-book adoption more heavily than Airbnb does.

By posting here you'll likely get a wave of 1-2-unit “hobby hosts" & part-time co-hosts offering to 'take a look.’ Worth asking anyone: years operating, properties actively managed, and do they optimize per-platform or just copy/paste the Airbnb listing everywhere (that’s exactly what causes your VRBO gap).

Two options depending on how hands-on you want to be:

• DIY: I recommend the "Zero-to-Super-Host Toolkit" (200+ scripts/SOPs/pricing frameworks) covers multi-platform listing optimization: toolkit.rarerentals.co 
• Pro audit: our Risk & Revenue Potential Analysis diagnoses exactly this — full OTA/comp-set breakdown, description/photo/pricing review per platform’s algorithm. It’s our required first step before any management engagement, so it’s a real diagnostic, not a sales wrapper.
• Next steps: I recommend additional depth through Google Vacation Rentals & Booking.com (depending on your market), developing your upsells, and dialing in your pricing optimization. Then we can help you integrate AI more purposefully using MCPs from Claude or the Super-Host GPT. 

Feel free to send a quick email (chris@rarerentals.co) & I'm happy to talk more about this. We also offer flat-rate, full-service STR management if you'd like more “white glove” support!

-Chris (Rare Rentals)

Hi Rob, I can help with this. I run a short term rental portfolio in the Chicago area on Hospitable across Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, and I do listing and pricing reviews for other hosts. I also took first place in the first Hospitable Buildathon and third in the most recent one, so I know this platform pretty well.

On the Vrbo side, part of that 155 to 5 gap is just that a four month old listing has almost no booking history for Vrbo to rank on yet. The other part is usually content that did not carry over cleanly from Hospitable. The amenity checkboxes are the big one. Guests filter their searches on those boxes, so if yours came over empty your listing gets dropped from the results even when your description says you have everything. Beach homes are normally one of Vrbo's strongest categories, so 5 bookings across three of them tells me something is worth looking at.

Happy to go through all three properties and tell you what I find. Send me a message anytime!

Email: gus@comfistays.info
Cell: 773-951-3946

Gus, Comfi-Stays

Hi Rob,

I did a 1-hour zoom class specifically on listing optimization.

We are in a market of 5000 and have 2 of the top 5 performing properties despite neither of them being top 30 properties in amenities.

Here is the link: 

Let me know if you find it helpful, and I’d be happy to work 1 on 1 with you.

Hey Rob,

Thanks for your post. I just sent you a message on LinkedIn. I’m a freelancer with experience optimizing and managing Airbnb channels on a commercial level. I included a client spotlight in my message so you can get a sense of my work.

If you like what you see, I’d be happy to discuss next steps.

Looking forward to connecting!

Best,
Sabrina

(619) 657-2526