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Where shelter, service and soul intersect
Family insite, New strategies
With four generations of stories and experiences, these hospitality entrepreneurs thrived. I was privileged to learn from them, but now I need to overlay that experience on to new marketing strategies and tools.
Practical technology tools
From smart home technology, surveillance cameras, marketing with online services, and new emerging strategies such as fully furnished mid-term rentals. Find out what worked and what didn’t.
Creating a guest experience
Furnishing a mid-term rental is not about winning a prize for best designer. Guests want somewhere to nap, recharge, make a meal, check their social accounts and create a home. How I leaned into comfortable, not perfect.
Your partner in property ownership.
Four generations and five years of making a go of it, here is what I learned.
It’s not for the faint of heart. The game is return on investiment (ROI). The goal is occupancy. The challenge is creating a space guests want to be in, take care of, and come back to.
Running a hotel in eastern Kansas
The ideals passed down from my great grandmother about running a hotel. I still have family members that are shocked when someone can’t fold a fitted sheet.
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What have I done?
My grandfather enjoyed a banking job in central Kansas and saw an opportunity in an apartment complex that was failing. He started his third career.
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I bet I can do it. I want to do it.
Years of passive family training and recognizing property was the best investment in the mid-2000s, I dove in. Transitioning from what I knew in long-term to mid-term.