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Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesSynta Keeling (under-represented host series)Synta Keeling is an Airbnb superhost and lawyer living in Washington DC. Debi interviewed her two days after the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Synta was previously interviewed in 2016 by the NPR podcast "Hidden Brain" for an #AirbnbWhileBlack episode that dealt with bias with Airbnb hosts and guests. Synta lives in the Capitol View neighborhood which is almost completely African-American. She is a black Filipino woman herself and has a lot of insight into fear that many people feel. Synta explains that she bought her house and was facing a stigma of living on the poor side of the A...
2021-07-0554 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesAt Ease Rentals with Anthony GanttUPDATE! July, 2021: Anthony just won a $100,000 entrepreneur award! Anthony Gantt and the birth of At Ease Rentals: Anthony is a smart Marine Corps officer who saw an opportunity and jumped on it. He was changing duty stations (in military terms, “PCS” or permanent change of station) and when he turned in his reimbursement request, it was denied. Why? He had stayed in an Airbnb instead of a hotel. Anthony had made several PCSs before and never had a reimbursement be denied, and this really burned him up. So he began the process of getting the rules changed. We hope you will find t...
2021-02-0745 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHosts of Color: C L ReedC L Reed is one of the many hosts of color and an entrepreneur who has expanded from her first room rental to now hosting her own 3 properties and co-hosting several other Airbnbs. She shares with Debi how she initially got started via her daughter's prodding. C L discovered that her home was exactly in the right spot for skydivers, and she has hosted skydivers from all over the world. She found her niche and works it with professional skill! C L expanded into Facebook, which is how Debi and C L met. See the Links at the end of the...
2020-12-0650 minHosting Your HomeKevin Rhea (Underrepresented Hosts Series)Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome interviews Kevin Rhea (“Krhea”) of Portland, Oregon, a fellow member of Host2Host. Debi reached out to Krhea because he is one of the few hosts of color in the Portland area, and he is kind, candid, and willing to teach. Debi is starting this series on Hosts of Color to further...
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2020-11-2800 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHosts of Color Series: Kevin RheaDebi Hertert of HostingYourHome interviews Kevin Rhea ("Krhea") of Portland, Oregon, a fellow member of Host2Host. Debi reached out to Krhea because he is one of the few hosts of color in the Portland area, and he is kind, candid, and willing to teach. Debi is starting this series on Hosts of Color to further her own and her listeners' understanding of the issues involved. Krhea claims title to being the proud father to a wonderful daughter, lucky husband to an incredible entrepreneur wife, cyclist and founder of Portland Velo Cycling Club, photographer, real estate investor and 20+yr resident o...
2020-11-1539 min
How to Save Your Vacation Rental BusinessWe need to talkWelcome to How to Save Your Vacation Rental, a 10-part educational podcast series hosted by vacation rental advocate Dana Lubner that will teach you how to solve your business’ greatest looming threat -- unfair regulation -- from the ground up. In this episode, you'll learn the critical importance of host group communications to the advocacy effort and the challenges we all face in bettering them. You'll learn how to improve existing efforts, and how emerging virtual community platforms fit into the Covid-19 age and beyond. This episode is brought to you by TRACK powered by Travel...
2020-11-0357 minHow to Save Your Vacation Rental BusinessThe Big DayWelcome to How to Save Your Vacation Rental, a 10-part educational podcast series hosted by vacation rental advocate Dana Lubner that will teach you how to solve your business’ greatest looming threat -- unfair regulation -- from the ground up. In this episode, you'll learn step by step how Dana and her group created the Good Neighbor Summit and learn why a similar event could be critical for your community building and advocacy efforts. You'll also hear from voices around the industry that have bootstrapped their own events and conferences. This episode is brought to you...
2020-10-2049 minHow to Save Your Vacation Rental BusinessGo TogetherWelcome to How to Save Your Vacation Rental, a 10-part educational podcast series hosted by vacation rental advocate Dana Lubner that will teach you how to solve your business’ greatest looming threat -- unfair regulation -- from the ground up. In this episode, you'll hear why we go farther when we go together. You'll also learn key steps and techniques for starting and running a sustainable host group and how to build relationships once you've got it going. This episode is brought to you by TRACK powered by TravelNet Solutions, providing integrated solutions to transform the...
2020-10-1349 minHosting Your HomeDebi and Rob vs the PandemicThe pandemic and short term rentals in Oregon. In mid March, 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic began impacting short term rental reservations in Oregon. Airbnb saw its global reservations drop like a rock. For three months, the pandemic has basically eliminated the STR market. Debi and Rob Hertert of Hosting Your Home use this episode to...
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2020-06-1600 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesDebi and Rob vs the PandemicThe pandemic and short term rentals in Oregon. In mid March, 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic began impacting short term rental reservations in Oregon. Airbnb saw its global reservations drop like a rock. For three months, the pandemic has basically eliminated the STR market. Debi and Rob Hertert of Hosting Your Home use this episode to talk about how the pandemic is affecting them personally and other hosts they know. Debi and Rob are very concerned about the small towns on the Oregon coast. The towns are desperate for money but cannot sacrifice the health of their citi...
2020-06-1625 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesFabStayz and Drag Queen take over Portland!We had an AWESOME photo shoot in Portland, Oregon directed by FabStayz founder Robert Geller, featuring airline flight attendant Danny Lee Cabrero as drag queen “Liquor Mini”, named after the little booze bottles on planes. It could not have been more fun! Robert was working on a publicity campaign for FabStayz and wanted it to be fun and attention getting. It worked! Danny visited 10 locations dressed in flight attendant drag, and photographer Carlos Camarena caught it all. The greater Portland area, with its supportive trade organization Host2Host, is the principal launch city for FabStayz. The PR campaign is soon...
2020-03-0423 minHosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-52 “The Airbnb Way” with author Joseph MichelliWhat company comes to an author’s mind after writing bestsellers about Starbucks, Zappos, Mercedes and Ritz-Carlton? Airbnb! Joseph Michelli became highly interested in the company and authored a book "The Airbnb Way". Joseph identifies the ways in which Airbnb engages with customers and builds brand loyalty. He includes both the view from inside the company and the view from the individual hosts who provide hospitality to millions of travelers each year. “The Airbnb Way” is a unique publication that is overdue - few businesses have been as disruptive as Airbnb and much of their positive impact has been...
2019-11-0125 minHosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesSTR Advocacy Done Well - with Mark RockwellShort Term Rental (STR) advocacy Short Term Rental (STR) advocacy is difficult and time-consuming. But if you want STR regulation that is informed and fair, you need to work. It's very easy for local government to spring into an over-regulated model, being saturated with negative news, so be proactive! There is no single regulatory model that works for every municipality or jurisdiction, nor is there a single model that all STR hosts will embrace. A city like Lake Oswego is completely different than a vacation destination resort area. The "Social Model" In his wor...
2019-08-2627 minHosting Your HomeHYH-50 FabStayz LGBTQ listing site, with Robert GellerDebi Hertert of the Hosting Your Home podcast talks with FabStayz LGBTQ Listing Site founder Robert Geller, about his exciting, new STR platform. Robert has 10 years of experience with his gay travel company “Outings and Adventures”. Through his personal Airbnb hosting experience and Airbnb travel, he saw a real need for a travel platform...
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2019-04-2200 minHosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesFabStayz LGBTQ listing site, with Robert GellerDebi Hertert of the Hosting Your Home podcast talks with FabStayz LGBTQ Listing Site founder Robert Geller, about his exciting, new STR platform. Robert has 10 years of experience with his gay travel company "Outings and Adventures". Through his personal Airbnb hosting experience and Airbnb travel, he saw a real need for a travel platform that would be respectful and safe specifically for LGBTQ travelers. He's inviting hosts to register, with the agreement that those hosts will be allies of LGBTQ travelers and make them feel welcome. Robert listed some impressive statistics for the volume of LGBTQ travel that are included bel...
2019-04-2132 minHosting Your HomeHYH-49 Meet Tyann Marcink!Debi Hertert talks with her friend and colleague Tyann Marcink about how Tyann got started in the vacation rental hospitality business, and the many hats that Tyann wears. The two spoke in October, 2018 when Tyann participated in the Host2Host Vendor Fair in Portland, Oregon. So listeners will find a wealth of information about vacation rentals,...
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2019-02-1000 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-49 Meet Tyann Marcink!Debi Hertert talks with her friend and colleague Tyann Marcink about how Tyann got started in the vacation rental hospitality business, and the many hats that Tyann wears. The two spoke in October, 2018 when Tyann participated in the Host2Host Vendor Fair in Portland, Oregon. So listeners will find a wealth of information about vacation rentals, coming from a person who has now spent 10 years in the business and who teaches it in bootcamp workshops. Tyann is also the Community Ambassador for the TouchStay Digital Guidebook product for short-term rentals. Right after this interview, Tyann Marcink spoke at the interna...
2019-02-1049 min
2019-01-1018 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-47 Guests with GunsDownload Episode! Airbnb Hosts love what we do - the hospitality, meeting travelers, interacting with happy people, and showing off our places. There are problems, ranging from rude guests, messes, animals, noise etc. But physical safety isn't a common part of the experience. This episode addresses two incidents around the same time in Portland involving guns. No one was physically hurt, but this is a good lesson about people who don't see guns as part of their world, and people who don't see the world without guns. 0:00 – 4:00 Introduction and discussion about the upcoming Host2Host.org Vendor Fair in Portland, Octobe...
2018-09-1047 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-46 “Smart Phone Photography” with Kati & Brian GreeneDownload Episode! Kati and Brian Greene are two long-time travelers who produced an eBook of interviews with vacation rental industry “thinkers and do’ers”. Now, they have created a structured video course, teaching smart phone photography to vacation rental owners. There are good reasons to use professional photographers, but there are also good reasons to learn to take our own pictures to manage property updates and pictures of surrounding neighborhoods. Those pictures have to be good enough to blend in with the other professional pictures on our listings. And, it turns out, they can! 0-3:30 Debi describes how she met Kati a...
2018-08-0631 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-45 "Kim Boaz: Back to Basics Bookkeeping"Download Episode! Kim Boaz is the owner of Back to Basics Bookkeeping in Portland, Oregon. Debi Hertert from the podcast “Hosting Your Home” talks with Kim in this short, upbeat interview. Many short-term rental owners who use Airbnb, VRBO, or their own website don’t consider their businesses to be large enough to warrant professional bookkeeping or CPA support. Listeners who frequent Facebook groups such as the Portland Area Airbnb Hosts know that questions constantly arise about occupancy taxes, income taxes, which IRS schedule to use, what are legitimate expenses etc. And people try to answer them as best they can, but i...
2018-07-1621 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-44 Meet Matt Landau!Download Episode! Matt Landau To many hundreds of independent vacation rental owners and VR managers, Matt Landau is the guru of the vacation rental market. He translated his remarkable experience in Panama into a valuable VR knowledge base that continues to expand within the large, virtual community that he has created. Matt’s experience, his sense for kind and appreciative personal relations, and his drive for professionalism make him a natural leader for other VR entrepreneurs. Matt talks with Debi about his background, creation of his VR community Inner Circle, and why he involved gang members in his vacation rental business. I...
2018-06-2939 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-43 Mark Scheel’s “Colorado Airbnb Host Meetup”Download Episode! Mark Sheel is a Google Android developer and Airbnb host in Colorado. He has long used Meetup.com to organize his large developer group in Denver, and leveraged that experience to create a 500-member Colorado Airbnb Hosts Meetup. Debi and Mark have been exchanging info and tips for the past couple of years. Colorado is an exceedingly desirable tourist destination, so it’s no wonder that there is a high interest in Mark’s group in Denver. This discussion can provide listeners with some ideas of how they might organize groups in their own areas. The show notes cover much...
2018-04-281h 01
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-42 Host2Host is About to be Born!Here is a fun, short talk from just Debi, about the new Host2Host association. It is a natural outgrowth of the Portland, Oregon community of hosts and the result of three years of community building through the 41 monthly Meetups Debi has organized, and the great success of the Portland Area Hosts Facebook group. Debi mentions in her talk that Portland has been told by Airbnb that we have the highest per-capita ratio of Superhosts in the world. It certainly could be that our community, which tries harder to support than compete, is better for all the communication and has lea...
2018-01-2212 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-41 "When Friendship is Your Business" with Bob Garner in ItalyDownload Episode! Come to Italy and listen to Debi Hertert talk with Bob Garner about his beautiful, 6-apartment vacation rental in Le Marche, Italy. Dubbed “Casal dei Fichi”, 12 years ago this building was an ancient farmhouse where the family once lived on the second floor to make use of the heat rising from the animals living on the bottom floor. From this humble origin, Bob and his partner Ian created a hospitality work of art. They transformed the farmhouse into modern, spacious apartments with gorgeous views and amenities. A swimming pool and olive grove are on the property and every evening, B...
2017-12-1642 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-40 "Sara Anselmi, Airbnb Host in Italy"[0:45] In September, 2017, Debi and Rob visited Italy: Debi wanted to attend the Vacation Rental World Summit conference in Florence, and it was hard to convince Rob to join her. They visited Rome, the province of Le Marche, then Florence, Siena, and Pistoia. They mostly used Airbnb listings, as they typically do while traveling. Sara’s house in Civitanova, Le Marche, was one of the five. They spent one night there, on the Adriatic coast, and met Sara Anselmi, an architect and Airbnb host. As often happens, there was a sweet connection, this time with Sara and her husband Luca. The four...
2017-10-2428 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-39 "Hostfully": 4,000 Guidebooks in 80 Countries (vendor series) Every short-term rental needs a guest guidebook. But what used to be a dog-eared, 3-ring binder can now become a spectacular, highly useful web-based product, accessible on a phone. David Jacoby, Airbnb Superhost and co-founder of Hostfully, traveled to Portland to meet with Debi Hertert and "Home Share PDX" Meetup group to talk about his product. Before the Meetup, Debi interviewed David for the Hosting Your Home podcast. [0:01:34] Debi asked how David got started with Hostfully, and it turns out that Before Children, he and his wife went on a year-long, around the world journey, staying in 27 countries and 37 homes. It wa...
2017-10-2233 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-38 Sedona: Listing Platform IntuitionJoin Debi Hertert and Michele Fitzgerald as they talk about Michele’s vacation rental in Sedona (that is not on Airbnb). Debi and Rob traveled to Sedona, Arizona in early 2017 to find some sun, and stayed in Michele's wonderful vacation rental home. She teaches intuitive methods, leads tours in Ireland, operates on-line businesses and manages her beautiful and successful vacation rental. And, as you will hear in the podcast, she has big plans for next year! Michele doesn’t use Airbnb – and explains why. (9:00) How did she get started? She’d owned this property for a long time and it was her firs...
2017-07-2438 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-37 Evan Ross of Cycle Portland (Host2Host 2017 vendor series)Debi Hertert interviews Portland Superhost Evan Ross, owner of Cycle Portland. She visited Evan at his Cycle Portland business in downtown Portland. They first met at the 2017 Host2Host conference where Evan participated as a vendor. The two began with Evan’s hosting experience in the popular Alberta Arts area. He began hosting in January, 2017. Evan does the cleaning himself – he initially thought he would see how it went by doing the cleaning himself, and so far just doesn’t find it so difficult and can fit in other work like phone calls while he cleans. He has prior experience as a guide and...
2017-07-0936 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-36 "Meet our Distinguished Guest" (Host2Host 2017 vendor series)In this episode, Debi Hertert talks with Alanna Schroeder of “The Distinguished Guest”, a vendor at the Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland, Oregon. Alanna started as a commercial real estate agent, then wanted to have another baby, so started renting out her house in Lake Tahoe. She recognized a need for a source of higher-end products for vacation rentals and started a business. She spent a lot of time sourcing products, finding those that looked good and are good. Alanna tries to source from large providers, so the same products will be available a year from now. She ended up getting...
2017-06-1417 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-35 “Is the Price Right?” Andrew Kitchell, Wheelhouse (Host2Host 2017 vendor series) Download Episode! Prior to the Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome interviewed Andrew Kitchell of Wheelhouse. Wheelhouse provides a pricing service for short-term rentals. They analyze the pricing of the local home-sharing listings, local hotels, and current events. Those three components affect pricing of accommodations, and Wheelhouse uses data scientists to make highly informed pricing decisions. The current product allows a high degree of personalization by the host, as Andrew discusses during the interview. Debi is a user of Wheelhouse and is highly interested in how it works. Here are some points that came out in the inte...
2017-05-2633 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-34 “No key IS the key” Nolan Mondrow, LockState (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series)Listen in as Nolan Mondrow, founder and CEO of LockState is interviewed by Debi Hertert of Hosting Your Home. LockState offers electronic locks for Airbnb hosts, and in a beautiful illustration of responding to hosts’ needs, the codes for the locks are produced automatically within the Airbnb platform. The host does not need to change the codes for each guest. The product is integrated with Airbnb (and VRBO) and is called “RemoteLock”. LockState also offers a lock that does not rely on having an internet connection at the house, yet still allows owners to remotely set unique codes for each guest st...
2017-05-1323 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-33 "We're Better, Working Together" Rod Fitts, AVROA (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series)Debi Hertert interviews Rod Fitts from AVROA, in her series of Host2Host 2017 Vendor interviews. AVROA stands for "Association of Vacation Rental Operators and Affiliates". Rod began this company in 2008, when the recession wiped out his education business and he needed to reinvent himself. The model of AVROA is to provide a free listing platform to members, so that owners can inexpensively gain exposure outside of shade cast by the large listing platforms. You will hear Rod's obvious enthusiasm for his association and mission. Visit AVROA's website at www.avroa.org
2017-04-1618 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-32 "Keeping your Airbnb Clean" Becky Knecht, TBH Clean (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series)Join Debi Hertert for her interview with Portland's Becky Knecht (pronouned "connect"), owner of TBH Clean, specializing in Airbnb-style homes. Becky's company slogan is "Your Mess is Our Mission!" Debi is working her way through interviews with hopefully all of the vendors who are attending the Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland on April 22, 2017. Becky cleans for Debi and several other local hosts. She is so dependable that she hasn't ever missed a single clean for Debi, something Debi brings up in their interview. Becky says "The condition of your property is the first impression for your guests. TBH Clean takes pride i...
2017-04-1618 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-31 "Picture Perfect" - Carlos Rafael Photography (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series)Airbnb host Debi Hertert of the HostingYourHome podcast interviews Carlos Rafael Camarena, a Portland, Oregon photographer who specializes in architectural photography and is expanding to add Airbnb and other short term rentals. Carlos is a professional photographer with a background in portraiture and real estate photography. In early 2015 he seized an opportunity to create images for and serve commercial architecture and interior design firms in Portland, which became a footing to make the move from Central California with his wife in late 2015. Debi and Carlos met two years ago and when the Host2Host conference came into being, Debi remembered C...
2017-04-1023 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-30 "Are you inSUREd?" Geoff Dorn, Country Financial (Host2Host 2017 Vendor series)Join Debi from HostingYourHome.com as she interviews many of the vendors who will attend the upcoming Host2Host 2017 conference in Portland, Oregon. Vendor support is critical for Airbnb hosts who want to provide the best accommodations and hospitality for their guests. Insurance is a critical issue and not always understood by hosts. But it does not have to be difficult, as we learn from Geoff Dorn. Geoff is an insurance agent with Country Financial in Portland and has been serving families and small business owners for ten years. He uses his experience to help his clients choose the right insu...
2017-04-0819 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-29 "Host2Host 2017" A dream turned into a conference!No interview! In this episode, Debi explains her dream of having a local Portland conference to support Airbnb and other hosts, and how it's come true: Host2Host 2017. If you don't see the links to the conference in your iTunes or whatever podcast listener you use, go to HostingYourHome.com and check out the show notes. This is a nice episode to just learn how one person's motivation to make something happen can come true, further made possible because of the tremendous contributions of time and knowledge by a dozen other local hosts who have brought this conference to life. And A...
2017-03-1014 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-28 Airbnb Guests' Ultimate Guide to PortlandPlease join Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome and Portland's Airbnb Superhost Shannon Hiller-Webb. Debi discovers Shannon’s amazing involvement in hosting and curating guest experiences, and about her own local food business “Green Zebra”. Shannon uses her connections with the local food scene, art scene and other social contacts to help guests find the right place to eat and what’s happening that night in Portland. She has guests from all over the world and relates a great story about being an unkowing contributor to a Japanese book “The Ultimate Guidebook to Portland for Creative People.” And then found out the book wa...
2017-02-241h 00
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-27 "Airbnb Open 2016" Part 2This episode is part 2 of our podcast about the 2016 Airbnb Open in Los Angeles. Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviewed several hosts there, and there is the same happy background noise that gives you a flavor of the overall vibe of the event. This episode includes June Stoddard, Diane Sherry Case, and Myranda Love. As in the “part 1” episode, we just ran the three short interviews one after another. They average about 8 minutes long. June has a great story about finding Airbnb at the right time to help her with her mortgage and two daughters’ college; Diane is an actor and direct...
2017-01-2931 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-26 “Airbnb Open 2016” Part 1Join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she interviews three people at the 2016 Airbnb Open conference in Los Angeles. For each of the past three years, Airbnb has held an annual conference called “The Airbnb Open”. In 2014 it was in San Francisco, in 2015 it was in Paris, and this year it was in Los Angeles. Debi has attended all three of these incredible, gala events. Airbnb brings in big name performers, authors, designers, politicos, artists and speakers. It is very exciting to attend these events and meet people from all over the world. With all the bad press about Airbnb that we ha...
2017-01-1424 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-25 Airbnb Can Mean Whole Houses, tooDebi Hertert of Hosting Your Home talks with Todd Brandewie, owner of a whole-house rental near Dayton, Ohio. At the time, Debi and her family were renting Todd’s house for a family reunion. Todd is a single dad and lives in his house with his four-year old son. Several nights per month, Todd and his son move to Todd’s dad’s house, or Todd’s RV, in order to rent out his Dayton house. When Todd got divorced and found himself unable to pay the mortgage, his mom suggested Airbnb. That suggestion saved Todd’s house and has given him a ne...
2016-12-2838 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-24 We are all People and we are ConnectedPortland, Oregon Airbnb host Nina Liebow talks with Debi Hertert of the Hosting Your Home podcast about Nina's life and how she came to hosting with Airbnb. Listen in as Nina shares her wonderful story, her Japanese connection, and her deep, heartfelt feelings about hosting. Nina hosts in the historic Irvington neighborhood in the heart of Portland. 1:20 Debi introduces Nina Liebow, who tells Debi a story - way back, in high school, Nina was at a used book store and found a book titled “Make a B&B anywhere you live”. The book was meaningful to Nina. She had grown up i...
2016-11-1234 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-22 They Started It! (Public Policy series)Join Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Bob and Sue Low, the Portland citizens and now Airbnb Superhosts who prompted the City to change their ordinance prohibiting short term rentals. A concept: “Age in Place” 1:40 Sue starts by telling about the remodel of their home in Lauralhurst and moving to their basement during the remodel. After living in it for 6 months they had some friends who knew about Airbnb and who had recommended they try it. They did, and were excited! It was the summer of 2012. They met some really nice people, but then their neighbor...
2016-11-0329 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-21 When You Need Airbnb's Help....Debi Hertert of the podcast HostingYourHome.com talks with Portland Airbnb host Nancy Stevens. Debi hears a great story of Airbnb support when Nancy needed it most. 0-02:15 Introduction 02:15-06:15 A short tour: Nancy shows Debi the view, and gives her a short tour, punctuated by a stained glass window that Nancy gave to her late partner to commemorate their favorite fly fishing spot in Idaho. 06:15-15:30 Nancy’s Story: Nancy told Debi that she had a major health emergency and was hospitalized for two weeks and unconscious for one of those. Her brothers knew she had Airbnb guests arriving but kne...
2016-10-2732 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-20 Is it Done Properly? (Nuts&Bolts series)In this interview, get to know Airbnb Superhosts Alex Nigg and Tammi Sims as they talk with Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com. Alex is the creator of “Properly”, a suite of tools that allows homesharers, vacation rental owners and property managers to manage guest turnovers remotely. Properly users can send detailed visual and text checklists to their helpers, and have peace of mind that every detail of their hospitality instructions was completed just as intended. Properly also allows the community of hosts to share their best service providers, providing opportunity to their favorite helper, as well as a trusted resource to th...
2016-10-1843 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-19 Hosting with HeartDebi Hertert of podcast HostingYourHome.com visits with Steve Niebrand, owner of the "Hoffman Woods" Airbnb in West Linn, Oregon, a whole-house listing where large families can celebrate special times together. Debi and Steve talk about his very special house on 2 acres near Portland. He explains how he got started hosting, buying a house specifically intending to use it for Airbnb rentals. Steve has had 99% great guests but tells Debi how he came to learn how to directly communicate with guests before they arrive, regarding parties and events. He meets and greets every group and takes that opportunity again to c...
2016-09-1341 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-18 The Hobbit Hole (Getting Started series)This week's podcast is a special treat as Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com tours the brand-new “Hobbit Hole”, Greg Raisman’s artistic creation for an Airbnb apartment in Portland, Oregon. Greg and Beth and their architects, builders and carpenters have been working on this project almost as long as it takes to grow a new human, and it really is their "baby”. (One listener recently asked if we would include the recording times in the show notes for people who needed to save time and listen to just certain topics, which sounded like a good idea. You’ll see times included belo...
2016-09-0347 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-17 Reaching Out (Meet Airbnb series)Soon after Taylor Scheftstrom began working for Airbnb she recognized a need for reaching out to Airbnb hosts in the Portland area. Debi Hertert of hostingyourhome.com talks with her about working at Airbnb and Taylor’s efforts to build personal relationships between hosts and Airbnb staff. Taylor grew up in southern Oregon in a tiny town of Rogue River. She was a sports girl, especially horses, and was interested in travel from when she was young. She traveled to Italy in high school, and at U of O studied photography and political science. And she took several - in her wo...
2016-08-2939 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-16 Slater HousePlease join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com, as she visits with Airbnb Superhost Kym Cumbo and tours the "Slater House" in Portland, Oregon. Kym and her husband Fred live at the “Slater House” in Ladd’s Addition in Portland, Oregon. Fred has lived there for 26 years and Kym for 7. Kym began listing on Airbnb in 2012 and has really done her homework as far as advertising and learning how to be a great host. The style of house is known as an “American Foursquare” and was featured in This Old House magazine when they did a story on Ladd’s Addition. You can read ab...
2016-08-1458 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-15 Uber Meets Airbnb (Getting Started series)This week, Debi Hertert of hostingyourhome.com coaches Ann Sigler, a Portland area Uber driver and imminent Airbnb host. Ann has lived in her house for 36 years, just retired from Intel, and wants to try her hand at hosting. Debi is helping her get started. Ann would like to begin hosting in September, 2016. You may wonder where Debi finds people to interview, and there isn’t any one, single way. Debi met Ann when Debi requested an Uber driver for a ride home from the Portland Airbnb office where she was having a meeting, and Ann picked her up. They got tal...
2016-08-0644 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-14 Above a Recording StudioJoin Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Airbnb host Kaila Thomson. Kaila and her husband Matt have a house just five minutes from the Portland, Oregon airport in the up-and-coming Montavilla neighborhood. They host two rooms above Matt’s “Ivy League Recording” music studio. Matt is a musician and sound engineer. They have owned their house for five years. Before they started hosting, they had roommates in order to make ends meet, but were tired of it and wanted to get their lives back. They had some friends who had been hosts for a while and told them a...
2016-07-2730 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-13 No Hope No Fear (Getting Started series)This week, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with soon-to-be Airbnb Host Ashley Kern, as they go over Ashley’s plans and final touches. Be sure to see the pix at the end of these notes. Ashley and her husband James own the “No Hope No Fear” Tattoo Art Studio in SE Portland. In a city with over a hundred studios, James is a widely recognized tattoo artist with 22 years of experience. James also teaches at international conventions and hosts visiting artists. The teaching aspect has allowed the two of them to travel all over the world and they look forward to...
2016-07-1538 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-12 An Engaging FollowupDebi Hertert from HostingYourHome.com talks with Michael Burke and Caitlin White, as a follow up to last week’s episode “Hear the Wind Give Voice to the Trees”. Michael and Caitlin have twice been guests at Alan and Dabney’s Airbnb listing: Summit Prairie, and this year they got engaged there! In this episode, Michael and Caitlin offer us the guests’ experience. From how Caitlin first found the listing, luckily finding an opening, and then in detail what it’s like to stay there. And why they found it so compelling not only to return, but for Michael to choose it as a p...
2016-07-0829 minHosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-11 Hear the Wind Give Voice to the TreesDebi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with Airbnb superhosts Alan Colley and Dabney Tompkins, self-described “City Slickers” who none the less, live on a very remote 160 acres. In a house, but it's on a 40-foot high lookout tower. Alan and Dabney lived in Portland in a condo and rented it out on Airbnb while they went backpacking or touring. But they never met their guests. Now they live in the super-remote, rural Oregon and realize that there were the same number of people on their street in Portland as are in their entire rural area; but they knew few people on their...
2016-07-021h 06
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-10 Keep it Clean! (Nuts&Bolts series)Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews two veteran housekeepers who take care of Debi’s three Airbnb vacation rentals on the Oregon coast. Bonnie (left) and Billie (right, with Makenzie) bring their wits and humor as they discuss what makes a good guest, funny situations that come up like having to help pack up some guests who were forgetting to leave, and of course the hard challenges of housekeeping. This is a different job altogether than house cleaning for full-time residents. Some Airbnb hosts already use professional cleaners, and some no doubt think about using them for turnovers or intermittently. Even if...
2016-06-2548 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-9 Money Matters (Nuts&Bolts series)Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com leads a panel discussion about money matters with Airbnb hosts from Portland. This episode was requested by Marcus, one of Debi’s listeners, who wanted to know about the financial aspect of hosting. The discussion covers initial setup costs, gross income, taxes, expenses, how much time is involved, and what difference the income has made in each person’s life. This is a longer episode than most but allows you to hear several viewpoints. Each person on the panel has Airbnb’s top “Superhost” designation of quality and volume of guest activity. So the numbers on this sho...
2016-06-1754 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-8 Apples to Applesauce!Apples to Applesauce! You may THINK you’re busy, but there is busy, then there is really busy! This week, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with Katrina Eastberg about her rental in southeast Portland and her nonprofit “Apples to Applesauce”. Katrina is not only an Airbnb Superhost, but also: founded and runs a nonprofit “Apples to Applesauce” to reduce hunger in Oregon plans to start a company “Universal Green Design” which will help people with attractive, non-clinical architectural accommodation designs for disabled owners and guests knits and sells the knitting products on the web operates an event planning business with her husband...
2016-06-1136 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-7 Making Life-Long FriendsMaking Life-Long Friends Join Debi Hertert from HostingYourHome.com as she interviews Jill Palamountain and Michael McCarron about their Portland Airbnb. Jill and Michael have hosted people from all over the world in the short year that they have been operating. They share their space, and it's definitely a big commitment step up from the hosts who have separate spaces for their guests. But Jill and Michael compare their experience to a really positive class in world geography and culture. Some of their guests have become friends and have even been invited to Thanksgiving dinner. There is lots to learn in thi...
2016-06-0432 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-6 From Camino to AirbnbWalk Your Airbnb Talk! Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Portland Airbnb Superhost Kathy Peterman, who has amazingly compressed 5 months of trash into this tiny bottle! Listen as Kathy explains how she came to walk the Camino in Spain and how she integrated the simplicity she felt on that journey into her life and her rental space. Check out Kathy’s “veg-friendly” listing at https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3478576 and her blog at https://mybestyear.me
2016-05-2829 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-5 A Tiny Bit of CountryNo, it’s not a new song! Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com and Airbnb Superhost Nancy Scott visit at Nancy’s home on a tree farm in West Linn, Oregon. When families stay there with kids, the kids are up early feeding the chickens. You can tell that Nancy is an optimist when she tells us about both joys and difficulties she has experienced but sums it up as “100% positive” ! And she doesn’t keep her rental open ALL the time - you’d never know it, but Nancy has 13 grandkids. She holds two “Grandma Camps” every year for them and had up to 9 lit...
2016-05-2134 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-0 Meet Your Host Debi and her Faithful Editor Rob!Download this episodeDebi of HostingYourHome.com and her husband Rob talk about how they met, how they got started with vacation rentals, and Debi's podcast about Airbnb stories.
To see the Hertert's properties: http://www.oregonshearwater.com
2016-05-0611 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-4 A Superhost duo supporting other hostsDebi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Portland Airbnb Superhosts Charity and Maylene Kuahiwinui (koo-ah-hee-vee-new-ee) and learns how they have built a small business of supporting other hosts. These two energetic and fun women share their story of how they got into Airbnb hosting, bought a suitable home, then perceived and filled a market niche for supporting other hosts who don't have the time or knowledge to manage their own listings. Their entrepreneurial drive and individual professional skills in HR and IT have served them well as their business now supports a number of hosts with a variety of services. You can c...
2016-04-2832 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-3 Josh's House in the TreesIn this heartwarming interview, Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com talks with April Brenneman, mother of five and Airbnb host with a tree house! April tells Debi about her youngest son becoming ill and wishing for a house in the trees. The community response and the effect on Josh are uplifting, and now, years later the tree house is helping the family in a new and important way. April shared a beautiful YouTube video of the tree house story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbemVJgo6Yg You can see April's listing for House in the Trees at...
2016-04-2719 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-2 Youngest Airbnb Guest in the World?Join Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com as she talks with Emily Andrews, a photographer in Beaverton, Oregon. Emily has hosted some fascinating guests in her unusual Airbnb accommodations, including a 1-day old baby! Listen through to the very end to see what was so darn fun! To see Emily's listings: Tiny House: www.airbnb.com/rooms/11227628 Photography Studio: www.airbnb.com/rooms/10791897 The Cottage: www.airbnb.com/rooms/7158944 Listings Emily manages: Hoffman Woods: www.airbnb.com/rooms/10810725 Beaverton Home: www.airbnb.com/rooms/11678823 Charming Farm House: www.airbnb.com/rooms/11722042
2016-04-2622 min
Hosting Your Home - Airbnb host storiesHYH-1 It's Not All About the MoneyDebi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews Airbnb Superhost
Carole Wiles in Portland, Oregon. Carole tells about her move from
California and her search for a home in Portland that would be
suitable for including an Airbnb apartment.
Carole has traveled extensively herself, and values the concept
of affordable accommodations to allow these cultural
experiences to others.
To see Carole's "Suite Dreams" studio listing go the
shownotes for this episode.
2016-04-2424 min
Vacation Rental SuccessVRS045 – Managing Multiple Vacation Rental Properties with Oregon Owner Debi HertertGet access to the best education for your short-term rental business! Enrol in The Vacation Rental Formula Business School today and start seeing results tomorrow. Discover more about the VRF B-School: https://www.vacationrentalformula.com/business-school/ Listening to this podcast on the move? Get to the show notes here: http://www.vacationrentalformula.com/vrs045
2014-10-0840 min