Home-sharing and vacation rentals done right!
By Properly / 14.09 / VR Host & Owner Tips
Hosting with Airbnb is more than just sharing your home with travelers, it is an opportunity to make each and every guest’s experience something to remember. Being able to share your local knowledge while providing safe and comfortable lodging are part of the Airbnb experience that vacationers absolutely love and...
By Properly / 25.08 / Properly News, VR Host & Owner Tips
Whether you manage one property or several, operating short term rentals requires effective teamwork to keep things running smoothly. Cleaners must be scheduled to flip a listing. Maintenance contractors must be alerted to a repair. And if you manager for others, owners need reassurance that their home is well-maintained and...
By Tammi Sims / 25.07 / VR Host & Owner Tips
Here’s a long list of some “Top 10” Guide ideas for your customized Guest Guides. Use ideas from this list or add your own. Add lists that reflect activities in your area. Here are 2 ways to use the lists. If you have an employee or owner who has a...
By Properly / 26.06 / Cleaning & Housekeeping, Properly News
We’re thrilled to announce that Properly now integrates with Guesty – a leading property management platform for Airbnb hosts. Like us, Guesty believes that hosts and property managers need the best tools possible to grow as our industry becomes more competitive. And integrations between leading solutions create excellence in every...
By Properly / 04.05 / Properly News
Properly’s community of users ranges from single property owners to multi-property managers. We heard from all users that they wanted to be able to use Properly from their computer – so we created the web app and we knew it would be particularly helpful for property managers. However, we noticed...
By Alex Nigg / 11.04 / Properly News
In a rapidly changing industry, it is important for vacation rental owners and managers to keep up with the latest VR trends. Meet Heather Bayer and Michael Bayer, two of the best (and most respected) thought leaders in the vacation rental industry. Heather and Mike are the people we look...
By The Distinguished Guest / 10.04 / All
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the birds are singing, the flowers are in bloom… and peak rental season is upon (most of) us! You know what that means: another season, another checklist. Here are the items I’m putting on my to-do list for spring: 1. Invest in...
By Lodgify / 23.03 / VR Host & Owner Tips
With the vacation rental industry now being valued at over $100 billion, there is no denying its success and ever-growing potential. As well as having presence on listing sites to appeal to wide audiences, many owners and managers opt for building their own websites in order to become more visible...
Time out. Before you dive into writing your property description for Airbnb or other listing sites, take a second and ask yourself: What is most important to me as a vacation rental host? What do I do or offer to guests that they really appreciate? There are no right answers...
Our latest feature displays whether a service provider was at the correct location when they tapped ‘Start’ and ‘Finish’ on a Properly job. This not only lets hosts and property managers stay in the loop on the progress of their jobs, but it also improves the score of the Service...
While Airbnb hosts and VRBO owners give Properly stellar reviews for cleaning and turnover management, professional property managers have been quick to remind us that their businesses are particularly complicated. Changeovers and cleaning management are a challenge for bookings from all channels, not just Airbnb and HomeAway / VRBO. “Can’t...
By Properly / 23.02 / Properly News
Starting today, you can connect your iCal or other URL calendars to any property and sync those bookings with your Properly calendar! This is an exciting feature that will improve scheduling services and changeover workflow for many hosts and property managers who list on platforms and channels other than Airbnb,...
By Properly / 16.02 / Properly News
The latest feature we’re rolling out is quite special to us. Why? Because it makes the operations of our customers even simpler. Now hosts, owners, and property managers can save time sending jobs by pre-filling job requests to make scheduling a one-click task. Here’s how it works: Since checklists are...
By Properly / 14.02 / Properly News
At Properly, we are always looking for smart collaborators, so when we met BookingSync Founder and CEO, Sébastien Grosjean at the Vacation Rental World Summit, we knew right away we wanted to partner. Séb comes from a family of vacation rental owners and managers and we admire his history, depth...
As you may have noticed, we recently launched a slick web application that lets owners and managers schedule their changeover services from one calendar that consolidates all bookings from different platforms. The pared down design of the web app also features a Properties tab and a Contacts tab. Now we...