Booked Solid Show - Short Term Rental Podcast
May 27, 2026 · 51 min · 18 segments
*"The only differentiator between my property doing $254K and my neighbor doing $185K? Design — and the strategy behind it."* What if the gap between a good STR and a great one wasn't the location…
Courtney PetrovichGuest
Gil ChanHost
We do too in short-term rental design, but when we got into hotels, if you think about the operational impact of a bed frame that a cleaner has to clean under versus a platform bed that nothing can get left under it by guests, housekeepers do not have to vacuum under it, say that saves five minutes per room.

You extrapolate that across a 50-key property, that's a huge difference in turnover costs.

And so I feel like hotels are very good at considering every little detail because of the impact it has, and that we can take those lessons as short-term rental operators and bring those into our properties to not only make a difference for the guest experience, I mean, who wants to forget their, their kid's favorite toy under the bed and have to have it- the host ship it to them, et cetera.

So we can really use those operational considerations from hotels in our short-term rentals.
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We do too in short-term rental design, but when we got into hotels, if you think about the operational impact of a bed frame that a cleaner has to clean under versus a platform bed that nothing can get left under it by guests, housekeepers do not have to vacuum under it, say that saves five minutes per room.

You extrapolate that across a 50-key property, that's a huge difference in turnover costs.

And so I feel like hotels are very good at considering every little detail because of the impact it has, and that we can take those lessons as short-term rental operators and bring those into our properties to not only make a difference for the guest experience, I mean, who wants to forget their, their kid's favorite toy under the bed and have to have it- the host ship it to them, et cetera.

So we can really use those operational considerations from hotels in our short-term rentals.