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Welcome 😀 This is a place where we’ll provide updates on anything and everything property management! Check back regularly as aim to put out new content regularly!

And keep in mind, we’re property managers, not writers!

Joining AvantStay

An Open Letter on Joining AvantStay As you may have heard, as of November 1, 2023 we joined the AvantStay Family! This is ...

Registration and Taxes

We moved! Please see HERE

The Google! And Google Vacation Rentals

Google Vacation Rentals Today, we're talking Google (you may have heard of them) and their relatively new offing: Google Va...

Protecting Your Money

Hi Everyone! Short post here but we wanted to give you a little peace of mind. In light of recent news surrounding Silicon ...

Superhost - We're Back Baby!

After a bit of a hiatus, we're very happy to share we have re-established Superhost status and are eager to share how we got...

Hostaway - The Machine That Powers It All!

Hostaway can do a looooot, and I don't want to completely overwhelm you, so what we'll be doing today is covering the broad ...

StayFi --> Repeat Renters --> $$$

We have a BIG, exciting, transformative announcement to make. Are you ready?! We are partnering with... Alright, so if y...

Operto - The Glue That Keeps Everything Together!

How do we do what we do? We manage 75+ listings, host 30,000+ guests/year with 4,000 turnovers and 15+ team members? Say it...

Listing Sites and OTAs

While being on more platforms isn't everything, we do try to have a wide breadth of platforms to ensure we're maximizing our...

Start-Up Items and Stocking the Home

Revised: 3/30/23 We've been around the block a few times and while we like to be as flexible as we can with each individual...

Strategies For Spring

As you may know, Springtime in the Poconos is considered the "shoulder" season, or "mud" season by many. Reason being? The s...

Like Your Listing!

Let's talk Wishlists! Wishlists are a feature within Airbnb that allows potential guests to "like" homes (and add them to th...

Electricity Bills and Savings

As you may have heard or seen first hand, electricity costs are way, way up and we wanted to take a moment to explain what w...

2022 Year-End Review and 2023 Roadmap

Quick Note from the Author (Dave) - Hi Everyone, thanks for taking a moment to read this. We know the performance of your ho...

Investment Series: Buying Guide

Updated: Aug 31, 2023 We get the questions often so we wanted to put together a comprehensive buying guide to the Poconos ...

Hostaway: Owner Statements

Updated: Nov 20, 2023 This Page Has Changed! We are working on updating this page but if you have questions about how this...

Binderless Binders

(please ignore the super lame stock photo, trying to focus more on the context than the right cover image!) Binder-less Bin...

Fancy, Fancy, Videos!

Exciting News! Summers are for reservations, Falls are for improvements, and we're beginning to implement Listing Videos! U...

Here We Go, Enso, Here We Go!

We're very excited to announce our integration with Enso Connect! What is Enso? In short, Enso is a digital onboarding exper...

Everything You Need to Know About Cleaning!

Updated: 8/22/23 We get a lot of questions around cleaning, after all its important! Unsatisfactory cleaning --> negativ...

To Stock, or not to Stock? That is the Question

In an effort to continue improving our service and experience, we began providing toiletries to our guests. We are still tin...

Pricing Strategy

Updated: 6/21/2023 Effectively and efficiently pricing your home is the #1 biggest missed opportunity when trying to manage...

Strategies for Spring - 2022 Edition

For many of you, this may be your first "spring" with a rental home in the Poconos, but as February rolls into March we cert...

Investment Series: Expectations on Profitability

Updated: January 4, 2024 Ahh, the million dollar question! Well... maybe not "million"... but the ten's-of-thousands-of-dol...

PRM Preferred Pet Policy Philosophy

Revised: 11/20/2023 This Page Has Changed! We are working on updating this page but if you have questions about how this w...

Airbnb 2021 Release

Airbnb 2021 Release for full details, click here As of Nov 9th, Airbnb made some welcome announcements that should impact ...

As you may or may not know, our slogan is More Money. Less Work. And while it's easy to understand how a property manager ac...

Investment Series: What Community is Best?

(this was written on September 3, 2020. I expect these results to be very time-specific and may not be relevant months into ...

Investment Series: Calculating Break-Even and Profitability

Spoiler Alert! This isn’t going to be the fun and engaging blog posts. This one is way more X’s and O’s with spreadsheets an...

Investment Series: Return on Investment (ROI)

Howdy! We’ve been receiving an increase in requests from prospective clients, asking for advice on what makes a good investm...

What's a Superhost?

So you may or may have not heard the term “Superhost” being thrown around within the Airbnb ecosystem. We wanted to take a...

COVID – past, present, future

Much like the rest of the world, the Poconos certainly wasn’t spared from the destruction that COVID brought. I wanted to pr...